List of University of Cambridge people

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A list of University of Cambridge people, 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 for which they are most often associated with.

Cantabrigians, is a term for members of the university derived from its Latin name Cantabrigia, a medieval Latin name for Cambridge.

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1 Politics and royalty
2 Clergy and spiritual leaders
3 Literature
4 The arts
5 Academic disciplines
6 Armed forces
7 Educationalists
- 7.1 A–M
- 7.2 N–Z
8 Entrepreneurs, business leaders and philanthropists
- 8.1 A–M
- 8.2 N–Z
9 The Law
- 9.1 Judges and lawyers
- 9.2 Legal academics
10 Journalists and media personalities
11 Sportspeople
12 Explorers
13 See also
14 External links

Politics and royalty

Monarchs

Charles Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (Magdalene)
Dina al-Hussein of Jordan (Princess Dina Abdul Hamid after 1957 divorce) (Girton)
Edward VII of the United Kingdom (Trinity)
George VI of the United Kingdom (Trinity)
Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, India (Trinity)
Margrethe II of Denmark (Girton)
Mutesa II of Buganda, Kabaka of Buganda (Magdalene)
Muwenda Mutebi II, Kabaka of Buganda (Magdalene)
Peter II of Yugoslavia (unknown)
Sofía, Queen Consort of Spain (Fitzwilliam)

Royal persons

Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia (Clare)
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Trinity)
Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate of Ethiopia (Magdalene)
Charles, Prince of Wales (Trinity)
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (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)
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, Duke of Cambridge (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)

Sao Hkun Hkio , Saopha of Mongmit , 4th Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Myanmar)

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)
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)

Heads of State

Oliver Cromwell (Sidney Sussex), first Lord Protector

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
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Christ's) 1812–1827
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

Other countries

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (St Catharine's) President of India 1974–1977
Ba Maw (unknown) First Prime Minister of Burma (Myanmar) 1937–1939; Head of State 1943–1945
Rupiah Banda (Wolfson) President of Zambia 2008–2011
Sir Francis Bell (St John's) Prime Minister of New Zealand 1925
Stanley Bruce (Trinity) Prime Minister of Australia 1923–1929
Jerzy Buzek (unknown) Prime Minister of Poland 1997–2001
Erskine Hamilton Childers (Trinity) President of Ireland 1973–1974
Alfred Domett (St John's) Prime Minister of New Zealand 1862–1863
Rajiv Gandhi (Trinity) Prime Minister of India 1984–1989
Mohammad Hidayatullah (Trinity) Acting President of India 1969
Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi (unknown) Acting Prime Minister of Pakistan 1990
Kim Dae-jung (Clare Hall) President of South Korea 1998–2003
John Lionel Kotelawala (Christ's) Prime Minister of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1953–1956
Lee Hsien Loong (Trinity) Prime Minister of Singapore 2004–
Lee Kuan Yew (Fitzwilliam) First Prime Minister of Singapore 1965–1990
Edward Mutesa II (Magdalene) First President of Uganda 1963–1966
Khawaja Nazimuddin (Trinity Hall) Prime Minister of Pakistan 1951–1953
Jawaharlal Nehru (Trinity) First Prime Minister of India 1947–1964
Anand Panyarachun (Trinity) Prime Minister of Thailand, 1991–1992, then again in 1992
Tunku Abdul Rahman (St Catharine's) First Prime Minister of Malaysia 1957–1970
George Maxwell Richards (Pembroke) President of Trinidad and Tobago 2003–
Samir Rifai (Trinity) Prime Minister of Jordan 2009–2011
William Philip Schreiner (Downing) Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (South Africa) 1899–1902
Guy Scott (Trinity Hall) Acting President of Zambia 2014
Dudley Senanayake (Corpus Christi) Prime Minister of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1952–1953, 1960, 1965–1970
Shankar Dayal Sharma (Fitzwilliam) President of India 1992–1997
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh (Queens') Prime Minister of Jordan 2011–
Manmohan Singh (St John's) Prime Minister of India 2004–2014
Jan Smuts (Christ's) Prime Minister of South Africa 1919–1924, 1939–1948
Gerald Strickland (Trinity) Prime Minister of Malta 1927–1932
William Henry Waddington (Trinity) Prime Minister of France 1879

Signatories of the American Declaration of Independence

Thomas Lynch, Jr. (Caius)
Arthur Middleton (Trinity Hall)
Thomas Nelson, Jr. (Christ's)

Soviet spies

known:

Anthony Blunt (Trinity)
Guy Burgess (Trinity)
John Cairncross (Trinity)
Donald Maclean (Trinity Hall)
Kim Philby (Trinity)
Michael Whitney Straight (Trinity)

suspected:

Victor Rothschild (Trinity)

(for other suspects, see Cambridge Five)

Other political figures

A–D

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)
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"
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh (Queens') Jordanian Foreign Minister (1980–1990), Royal State Adviser on International Law
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
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
Christopher Bentley (Wolfson) Minister of Aboriginal Affairs in Ontario (2010–)
Hans Blix (Trinity Hall) UN weapons inspector, Swedish Foreign Minister (1978–1979)
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
Annette Brooke (Hughes Hall) Liberal Democrats MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole
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–)
P. K. van der Byl (Pembroke) Rhodesian Foreign Minister (1974–1979)
Vince Cable (Fitzwilliam) Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Business Secretary (2010–)
Alastair Campbell (Caius) Press Secretary and Director of Communications and Strategy under Tony Blair
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 politician, Nobel Prize winner
Somnath Chatterjee (Jesus) Speaker of the Lok Sabha in the Indian Government (2004–2009)
Paul Clement (Darwin) Solicitor General of the United States (2004–2008)
Robert 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)
Nick Clegg (Robinson) Leader of the British Liberal Democrats and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2010–)
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 (unknown) Sri Lankan Leader of the Opposition (1994)

E–M

Abba Eban (Queens'/Pembroke) Israeli Deputy Prime Minister (1963–1966), Education Minister (1960–1963) and Foreign Minister (1966–1974)
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)
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
Anthony Giddens (King's) Sociologist, propagator of "Third Way" social theory and adviser to Tony Blair
Nick Griffin (Downing) Leader of the British National Party (1999–)
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)
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–)
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 and 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
Peter Lilley (Clare) British Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1990–1992) and Secretary of State for Social Security (1992–1997)
Roy MacLaren (St Catharine's) Canadian Minister of National Revenue (1984–1985) and Minister of International Trade (1993–1996)
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, and 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.

first Minister Resident to the Kingdom of Siam (1897–1899) and Minister Plenipotentiary (1899–1907)

Allama Mashriqi (Christ's) Founder of the Khaksar movement (1930)
John McCallum (Queens') Canadian Minister of National Defence (2002–2003) and Minister of National Revenue (2004–2006)
David Mellor (Christ's) British politician
Andrew Mitchell (Jesus) British Secretary of State for International Development (2010–)
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

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 Prize winner
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)
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)
Charles Stewart Parnell (Magdalene) Leader of the Irish Nationalist Party (1882–1891)
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)
Shah Mehmood Qureshi (Corpus Christi) Foreign Minister in the Pakistani Government (2008–)
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–)
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) – Labour MP
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)
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)
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 Wilberforce (St John's) Slavery abolitionist
Roger Williams (Pembroke) Founder of Rhode Island, advocate of Native Americans

Clergy and spiritual leaders

Sri Aurobindo (King's)
Archbishop Richard Bancroft (Christ's/Jesus)
Edward White Benson (Trinity)
William Brewster (Peterhouse)
Donald Coggan (St John's)
Frederick Cornwallis (Christ's) Archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas Cranmer (Jesus)
Saint John Fisher (Michaelhouse)
Sir James George Frazer (Trinity)
Edmund Grindal (Christ's) Archbishop of Canterbury
Anne Hollinghurst (Hughes Hall) Bishop of Aston
Fenton John Anthony Hort (Trinity/Emmanuel)
George Joye (Christ's/Peterhouse)
J. B. Lightfoot (Trinity)
F. D. Maurice (Trinity/Trinity Hall)
Arthur Peacocke (Clare) Templeton Prize winner
William Perkins (Christ's) Puritan theologian
Michael Ramsey (Magdalene)
Sogyal Rinpoche (Trinity)
Archbishop Justin Welby (Trinity)
Robert Runcie (Trinity Hall)
Jonathan Sacks (Caius)
Solomon Schechter (unknown)
John Sentamu (Selwyn/Ridley Hall)
Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII (Westcott House)
William Robertson Smith (Christ's)
John Stott (Trinity/Ridley Hall)
Eckhart Tolle (Caius)
William Tyndale (unknown)
Terry Waite (Trinity Hall)
Brooke Foss Westcott (Trinity)
Philip William Wheeldon (OBE), Bishop of Whitby and Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman (Clifton/Downing)
William Whewell (Trinity)
Archbishop John Whitgift (Queens'/Pembroke/Trinity)
Roger Williams (Pembroke)
Archbishop Rowan Williams (Christ's/Clare) theologian, Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Richard Williamson (Clare)

Literature

Fiction writers

Poets

A–M

Sri Aurobindo (King's)
William Alabaster (Trinity)
Harivanshrai Bachchan (St Catharine's)
John Bale (Jesus)
Maurice Baring (Trinity)
A. C. Benson (King's/Magdalene)
John Berryman (Clare)
Joseph Brodsky (Clare Hall) Nobel Prize winner
Rupert Brooke (King's)
John Byrom (Trinity)
Lord Byron (Trinity)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Jesus)
F. M. Cornford (Trinity)
John Cornford (Trinity)
Abraham Cowley (Trinity)
George Crabbe (Trinity)
Cecil Day-Lewis (unknown) Poet Laureate
John Donne (unknown)
Charles Montagu Doughty (Caius)
John Dryden (Trinity) Poet Laureate
Laurence Eusden (Trinity) Poet Laureate
Michael Field (Newnham)
Edward FitzGerald (Trinity)
Giles Fletcher (Trinity)
George Gascoigne (Trinity)
Alice Goodman (Trinity)
Thomas Gray (Peterhouse/Pembroke)
Sir Edmund Gosse (Trinity)
Thom Gunn (Trinity)
Arthur Hallam (Trinity)
Peter Hausted (Queens')
George Herbert (Trinity)
Robert Herrick (St John's)
Geoffrey Hill (Emmanuel)
Philip Hobsbaum (Downing)
John Holloway (Queens')
A. E. Housman (Trinity)
Ted Hughes (Pembroke) Poet Laureate
Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Trinity)
Lawrence Joseph (Magdalene)
Arthur Henry King (unknown)
John Lehmann (Trinity)
Malcolm Lowry (St Catharine's)
Andrew Marvell (Trinity)
Christopher Marlowe (Corpus Christi)
Thomas May (Sidney Sussex)
John Milton (Christ's)
Wendy Mulford (unknown)
Frederic William Henry Myers (Trinity)

N–Z

Victor Benjamin Neuburg (Trinity)
Sylvia Plath (Newnham) Pulitzer Prize winner
J. H. Prynne (Caius)
Kathleen Raine (Girton)
Thomas Randolph (Trinity)
Tom Raworth (King's)
Peter Redgrove (Queens')
Siegfried Sassoon (Clare)
Thomas Shadwell (Caius) Poet Laureate
John Skelton (unknown) Poet Laureate
Christopher Smart (Pembroke)
Edmund Spenser (Pembroke) Poet Laureate
Sir John Suckling (Trinity)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Trinity) Poet Laureate
Derick Thompson (unknown)
William Wentworth (Peterhouse)
William Whitehead (Clare) Poet Laureate
John Wilkinson (Jesus)
William Wordsworth (St John's) Poet Laureate
Xu Zhimo (King's)

Literary scholars

M. H. Abrams (Magdalene)
Peter Ackroyd (Clare)
Lord Annan (King's)
Jonathan Bate (St. Catharine's/Trinity Hall)
Mary Beard (Newnham)
Clive Bell (Trinity)
Richard Bentley (St John's/Trinity)
Harold Bloom (Pembroke)
Alain de Botton (Caius)
Henry Bradshaw (King's)
Nick Clarke (Fitzwilliam)
A. B. Cook (Queens'/Trinity)
F. M. Cornford (Trinity)
Jonathan Culler (Selwyn)
Donald Davie (St Catharine's/Caius)
Simon Digby (Trinity)
Patrick Dixon (King's)
Denis Donoghue (King's)
Gerald Duckworth (Clare)
Terry Eagleton (Trinity/Jesus)
Sir William Empson (Magdalene)
Charles le Gai Eaton (King's)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Clare)
Robert Gittings (Jesus)
Sir Edmund Gosse (Trinity)
Simon Gray (Trinity)
Stephen Greenblatt (Pembroke)
Sir Walter Wilson Greg (Trinity)
Leslie Halliwell (St Catharine's)
Jane Ellen Harrison (Newnham)
Samuel Hartlib (unknown)
Hugh Haughton (Emmanuel)
John Hersey (Clare) Pulitzer Prize winner
Theo Hobson (Hughes Hall)
Vyvyan Holland (Trinity Hall)
Christopher Isherwood (Corpus Christi)
Peter Jukes (Queens')
Sir Frank Kermode (King's)
F. R. Leavis (Emmanuel/Downing)
Q. D. Leavis (Girton)
Colin MacCabe (King's)
Sir Desmond MacCarthy (Trinity)
Ronald Brunlees McKerrow (Trinity)
Marshall McLuhan (Trinity Hall)
Thomas Merton (Clare)
John Mullan (Jesus/Fitzwilliam)
Abioseh Nicol (Christ's)
C. K. Ogden (Magdalene)
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (Jesus)
Simon Raven (King's)
Forrest Reid (Christ's)
I. A. Richards (Magdalene)
Jo Riley (unknown)
Susan Sellers (Trinity/Lucy Cavendish)
Walter William Skeat (Christ's)
J. B. Steane (Jesus)
George Steiner (Churchill)
Sir Leslie Stephen (King's)
Lytton Strachey (Trinity)
Tony Tanner (Jesus/King's)
Claire Tomalin (Newnham)
R. C. Trevelyan (Trinity)
Arthur Waley (King's)
Raymond Williams (Trinity)
J. Dover Wilson (Caius)
James Wood (Jesus)
Leonard Woolf (Trinity)

Travel writers

Maurice Baring (Trinity)
Claudius Buchanan (Queens')
Robert Chartham (unknown)
William Dalrymple (Trinity)
Maurizio Giuliano (Fitzwilliam)
Joanna Kavenna (St John's)
Alexander William Kinglake (Trinity)
Robert Macfarlane (Pembroke/Emmanuel)
Fynes Moryson (Peterhouse)
Matthew Parris (Clare)
Terry Waite (Trinity Hall)
Ted Walker (St John's)
Samantha Weinberg (Trinity)

The arts

Actors, directors and comedians

A–G

Khalid Abdalla (Queens')
Clive Anderson (Selwyn)
Michael Apted (Downing) Grammy Award winner
David Armand (St Catharine's)
Alexander Armstrong (Trinity) BAFTA joint winner
Lord Antony Armstrong-Jones (Jesus) Emmy Award winner
Lord Richard Attenborough (Emmanuel) Academy Award winner
Richard Ayoade (St Catharine's)
James Bachman (Emmanuel)
David Baddiel (King's)
Jamie Bamber (St John's)
Tom Basden (Pembroke)
Simon Bird (Queens') BAFTA winner
James Bloor
Hugh Bonneville (Corpus Christi)
Tim Brooke-Taylor (Pembroke)
Eleanor Bron (Newnham)
Jimmy Carr (Caius)
Graham Chapman (Emmanuel)
John Cleese (Downing) Emmy Award winner
Sacha Baron Cohen (Christ's) comedian
Lily Cole (King's)
Peter Cook (Pembroke) Grammy Award winner
Trevor Dann (Fitzwilliam)
Hugh Dennis (St John's)
Declan Donnellan (Queens')
Robin Ellis (Fitzwilliam)
Mark Evans (unknown)
Sir Richard Eyre (Peterhouse)
Julian Fellowes (Magdalene) Academy Award winner
Trent Ford (Clare)
Stephen Frears (Trinity)
Robin French (Selwyn)
Stephen Fry (Queens')
Graeme Garden (Emmanuel)
Mel Giedroyc (Trinity)
Stefan Golaszewski (unknown)
Marius Goring (unknown)
Paul Greengrass (Queens')

H–M

Sir Peter Hall (St Catharine's)
Rebecca Hall (St Catharine's)
Andy Hamilton (Downing)
Phil Hammond (Girton)
Nick Hancock (Homerton)
Terrence Hardiman (unknown)
Naomie Harris (Pembroke)
Kit Hesketh-Harvey (Clare)
Tom Hiddleston (Pembroke)
Christopher Hogwood (Pembroke)
Tom Hollander (Selwyn)
Matthew Holness (Trinity Hall)
The Hollow Men (St Catharine's/Selwyn/Emmanuel)
Sir Nicholas Hytner (Trinity Hall)
Eric Idle (Pembroke)
Sir Derek Jacobi (St John's) Emmy Award winner
Humphrey Jennings (Pembroke)
Griff Rhys Jones (Emmanuel)
Paul King (St Catharine's)
Armaan Kirmani (Queens')
Matt Kirshen (Clare)
Hugh Laurie (Selwyn) Golden Globe Award winner
John Lloyd (Trinity)
Alice Lowe (unknown)
John Madden (Sidney Sussex)
Richard Maher (unknown)
Stephen Mangan (Caius)
Miriam Margolyes (Newnham)
James Mason (Peterhouse)
Sir Ian McKellen (St Catharine's)
Sam Mendes (Peterhouse) Academy Award winner
Roger Michell (Queens')
Lord Bernard Miles (Pembroke)
Miles Millar (Christ's)
Ben Miller (St Catharine's) BAFTA joint winner
Jonathan Miller (St John's)
David Mitchell (Peterhouse) BAFTA joint winner
Nick Mohammed (Magdalene)
Lucy Montgomery (unknown)
Hattie Morahan (New Hall)
Neil Mullarkey (Robinson)
Richard Murdoch (Pembroke)
Hannah Murray (Queens')

N–Z

Henry Naylor (Christ's)
Mike Newell (Magdalene)
Robert Newman (Selwyn)
Thandie Newton (Downing)
Sir Trevor Nunn (Downing)
Bill Oddie (Pembroke)
John Oliver (Christ's) Emmy Award winner
Barunka O'Shaughnessy (unknown)
Iain Overton (Downing/Caius)
Tony Palmer (unknown) Emmy Award winner
Andy Parsons (Christ's) comedian
Alice Patten (Queens')
Sue Perkins (New Hall)
Frederic Raphael (St John's) Academy Award winner
Corin Redgrave (King's)
Sir Michael Redgrave (Magdalene)
Eddie Redmayne (Trinity) Academy Award winner
Karel Reisz (Pembroke)
Blake Ritson (unknown)
Sir George Robey (unknown)
Luke Roberts (Churchill) comedian
Simon Russell Beale (Caius)
Anthony Shaffer (Trinity)
Cecil Sharp (Clare)
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
Joe Thomas (Pembroke)
Emma Thompson (Newnham) Academy Award winner
Sandi Toksvig (Girton)
Horace de Vere Cole (unknown)
Richard Vranch (unknown)
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)
Lloyd Woolf (unknown)
Basil Wright (unknown)
Terence Young (St Catharine's)

Architects

Christopher Alexander (Trinity)
Sir Arthur Blomfield (Trinity)
Peter Boston (King's)
W. D. Caroe (Trinity)
Sir Hugh Casson (St John's)
Edward Cullinan (unknown)
Basil Champneys (Trinity)
Peter Eisenman (Trinity)
Ralph Erskine (Clare Hall)
James Essex (King's)
Lord Thomas de Grey (St John's)
Spencer de Grey (Churchill)
Judith Ledeboer (Newnham)
Sir Leslie Martin (Jesus)
Rod I. McAllister (Girton)
Frank Newby (Trinity)
Christopher Nicholson (St John's)
Jadwiga Piłsudska (Newnham)
Cedric Price (St John's)
Edward Schroeder Prior (Caius)
Sir Charles Herbert Reilly (Queens')
Ian Ritchie (unknown)
Deborah Saunt (unknown)
Harold Tomlinson (unknown)
William Wilkins (Caius)
Sir Clough Williams-Ellis (Trinity)
Sir Colin St John Wilson (Corpus Christi/Churchill)
Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (unknown)
Ken Yeang (Wolfson)

Artists

Lord Antony Armstrong-Jones (Jesus) Portrait photographer
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
Luke Piper (unknown) Contemporary landscape painter
Marc Quinn (Robinson) Contemporary sculptor, member of Young British Artists, best known for Self and Alison Lapper Siren
Mick Rock (Caius) Pop culture photographer, renowned for the iconic images major Rock bands
Julian Trevelyan (Trinity) Surrealist painter and Modern printmaker

Art critics, museum directors, 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) Respected fine arts consultant and gallerist, judge on various art award panels
Michael Kitson (King's) Art historian, Claude Lorrain expert, Professor at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Courtauld Institute of Art
Michael Jaffé (King's) Art historian, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and Proprieter of Clifton Maybank House
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
Sir Nenko Nenov (pulen propadnqk)

Musicians

A–G

Thomas Adès (King's)
Julian Anderson (King's)
Malcolm Archer (Jesus)
Sir Richard Armstrong (Corpus Christi)
David Atherton (Fitzwilliam/Trinity)
Pete Atkin (St John's)
Martin Baker (Downing)
Stephen Barlow (Trinity)
George Benjamin (King's)
Sir William Sterndale Bennett (King's)
Sir Arthur Bliss (Pembroke)
Leslie Bricusse (Caius) Academy & Grammy Award winner
William Denis Browne (Clare)
Humphrey Burton (Fitzwilliam) Emmy Award winner
Clemency Burton-Hill (Magdalene)
John A. Butt (King's)
Andrew Carwood (St John's)
Stephen Cleobury (St John's)
Nicholas Cook (Darwin)
Arnold Cooke (Caius)
Benjamin Cooke (unknown)
Harold Darke (King's)
Thurston Dart (unknown)
Sir Andrew Davis (King's)
Sir Colin Davis (unknown) Grammy Award winner
John Deathridge (King's)
E. J. Dent (King's)
Delia Derbyshire (Girton)
Nick Drake (Fitzwilliam)
Richard Egarr (Clare)
Sir Mark Elder (Corpus Christi)
Robert Fayrfax (King's)
Simon Fell (Fitzwilliam)
Matthew Fisher (Wolfson)
Fred Frith (unknown)
Andrew Gant (St John's)
Sir John Eliot Gardiner (King's) Grammy Award winner
Noel Gay (Christ's)
Armstrong Gibbs (Trinity)
Orlando Gibbons (King's)
James Gilchrist (King's)
Charlie Gillett (Peterhouse)
Sir William Glock (Caius)
Alexander Goehr (Trinity Hall)
Alan Gray (Trinity)
John Greaves (Pembroke)
Maurice Greene (unknown)
Colin Greenwood (Peterhouse) Grammy Award winner
Douglas Guest (King's)
George Guest (St John's)

H–M

Patrick Hadley (Pembroke)
Charles Hart (Robinson)
Jonathan Harvey (St John's)
Richard Hickox (Queens') Grammy Award winner
Tim Hodgkinson (unknown)
Christopher Hogwood (Pembroke)
Robin Holloway (King's/Caius)
Herbert Howells (St John's)
Eric Idle (Pembroke) Grammy Award winner
Brian Kay (King's) Grammy Award winner
Simon Keenlyside (St John's)
Jonathon King (Trinity)
Robert King (St John's)
Robert Kirby (Caius)
Stephen Layton (King's/Trinity)
Sir Philip Ledger (King's)
Walter Leigh (Christ's)
Raymond Leppard (Trinity)
Sir George Alexander Macfarren (unknown)
Joanna MacGregor (New Hall)
Andrew Manze (Clare)
Richard Marlow (Selwyn/Trinity)
Andrew Marriner (King's)
Hubert Stanley Middleton (Peterhouse/Trinity)
Silvina Milstein (Jesus/King's)
David Munrow (Pembroke) Grammy Award winner

N–Z

John Noble (Fitzwilliam)
Sir Roger Norrington (Clare) Grammy Award winner
Boris Ord (Corpus Christi/King's)
Tarik O'Regan (Corpus Christi/Trinity)
Robin Orr (Pembroke)
Martin Outram (Fitzwilliam)
Christopher Page (Sidney Sussex)
Christopher Palmer (Trinity)
Roger Parker (St John's)
David Parry (unknown)
Geoffrey Paterson (St John's)
Ernst Pauer (unknown)
John Potter (King's/Caius)
Andrew Powell (King's)
Clement Power (Caius)
Simon Preston (King's)
Robert Ramsey (Trinity)
William Henry Reed (unknown)
Kimberley Rew (Jesus)
Alan Ridout (unknown)
Cyril Rootham (St John's)
John Rutter (Clare)
John Scott (St John's)
Geoffrey Shaw (Caius)
David Skinner (Sidney Sussex)
Sir Arthur Somervell (King's)
Tim Souster (King's)
Roger Smalley (King's)
John Spiers (King's)
Nicholas Staggins (unknown)
Simon Standage (King's)
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (Queens'/Trinity)
Bernard Stevens (unknown)
Richard Stilgoe (Clare)
Mark Stone (King's)
Jeffrey Tate (Christ's) conductor
Art Themen (unknown)
Roger Vignoles (Magdalene)
Thomas Attwood Walmisley (Trinity/St John's/Jesus)
Jeremy Warmsley (Churchill)
Judith Weir (King's)
Eric Whitacre (Sidney Sussex)
John Clarke Whitfield (Trinity/St John's)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (Trinity)
Sir David Willcocks (King's) Grammy Award winner
Jonathan Willcocks (Trinity)
Sir Steuart Wilson (King's)
Tony Wilson (Jesus)
Charles Wood (Selwyn/Caius)

Groups

Alamire (Sidney Sussex)
Cambridge Buskers (unknown)
Cambridge Singers (Clare)
Cantabile (various)
The Cardinall's Musick (various)
Clean Bandit (Jesus) Grammy Award winners
Endellion Quartet (various)
The Fitzwilliam Quartet (Fitzwilliam) Grammy Award winners
Henry Cow (various)
Hot Chip (Sidney Sussex/Jesus)
Katrina and the Waves (Jesus) Eurovision Song Contest winners
The King's Consort (St John's)
The King's Singers (King's) Grammy Award winners
Kit and The Widow (Clare)
Monteverdi Choir (King's)
Retrospect Ensemble (St John's)
The Soft Boys (various)
Spiers and Boden (King's)
Stile Antico (Trinity) Grammy Award winners
Trinity Baroque (Trinity)

Academic disciplines

Scientists, technologists and mathematicians

A–C

John Couch Adams (St John's) Mathematician and astronomer
Lord Adrian (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner. Physiologist
Sir George Airy (Trinity)
Ross J. Anderson (Trinity) Computer scientist
Sir Edward Appleton (St John's) Nobel Prize winner. Physicist
Philip Warren Anderson (Churchill/Jesus) Nobel Prize winner. Physicist
Francis Aston (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner. Physicist
Sir Michael Atiyah (Trinity) Fields Medal & Abel Prize winner.
Charles Babbage (Peterhouse) Mathematician
Alan Baker (Trinity) Fields Medal winner. Mathematician.
H. F. Baker (St. John's)
Charles Barkla (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner. Physicist
Horace Barlow (Trinity)
Simon Baron-Cohen (Trinity) Psychologist
Isaac Barrow (Trinity)
John Barrow (Clare) Templeton Prize winner. Mathematician
William Noel Benson (unknown) Geologist
John Desmond Bernal (Emmanuel)
Elizabeth Blackburn (Darwin) Nobel Prize winner
Béla Bollobás (Trinity)
Patrick Blackett (Magdalene/King's) Nobel Prize winner. Physicist
Niels Bohr (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner. Physicist
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
Jacob Bronowski (Jesus)
Alec Broers (Caius)
Michael Burrows (Churchill) Inventor of the first internet search machine, Alta Vista
Sir Roy Yorke Calne (unknown)
Roger Carpenter (Caius)
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 Alan Cottrell (Christ's/Jesus) Chief Scientific Adviser
Sir Christopher Cockerell (Peterhouse)
Arthur Holly Compton (unknown) Nobel Prize winner
John Horton Conway (Caius)
Allan Cormack (St John's) Nobel Prize winner
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)
John Dee (St John's/Trinity)
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
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)
William Gilbert (St John's)
Walter Gilbert (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
Sir Harold Gillies (Caius)
Peter Goddard (St. John's)
Thomas Gold (Trinity)
Jane Goodall (Newnham/Darwin)
Timothy Gowers (Trinity) Fields Medal winner
Aubrey de Grey (Trinity Hall)
George Green (Caius)
Michael Green (Churchill/Clare Hall)
Paul Greengard (unknown) Nobel Prize winner

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)
Sir John Herschel (St John's)
Antony Hewish (Caius/Churchill) Nobel Prize winner
Christopher Hinton (Trinity)
A. V. Hill (Trinity) Nobel Prize 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)
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
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)
Archer Martin (Peterhouse) Nobel Prize winner
Keith Martin
Alan MacDiarmid (Sidney Sussex) Nobel Prize winner
Peter Mathieson (Christ's) Vice-Chancellor of University of Hong Kong
Thomas Henry Manning (unknown)
James Clerk Maxwell (Trinity)
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (unknown) Chief Scientific Adviser
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)
Samuel Morland (Magdalene)
Simon Conway Morris (St John's)
Nevill Mott (Caius/St John's) Nobel Prize winner

N–R

Roger Needham (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
William Oughtred (King's) Inventor of the slide rule and the "×" symbol for multiplication
J. Robert Oppenheimer (Christ's) Scientific director of the Manhattan Project
Jeremiah Ostriker (unknown)
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
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
John Ray (St Catharine's)
Lord Rayleigh (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
Sir John Randall (unknown)
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
Martin Ryle (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner

S–Z

Barbara Sahakian (Clare Hall) Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology
Vikram Sarabhai (St John's)
Abdus Salam (St John's) Nobel Prize winner
Frederick Sanger (St John's) Winner of two Nobel Prizes
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++
John Sulston (Pembroke) Nobel Prize winner
M. S. Swaminathan (unknown) 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)
Brook Taylor (St John's)
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (Trinity)
Chris D. Thomas (Corpus) FRS
Sir George Paget Thomson (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
J. J. Thomson (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
John Griggs Thompson (Churchill) Fields Medal winner
Alexander Todd (Christ's) Nobel Prize winner
Alan Turing (King's)
Neil Turok (Churchill) mathematician
William Tutte (Trinity)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (Peterhouse)
Stephen Tweedie (Churchill) – Software developer
Roger Y. Tsien (Churchill) Nobel Prize winner
John Venn (Caius)
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)
William Hyde Wollaston (Caius) Copley Medal winner
Thomas Young (Emmanuel)
Christopher Zeeman (Christ's) mathematician

Astronauts

Michael Foale (Queens'), NASA astronaut
Nicholas Patrick (Trinity) NASA astronaut
David Saint-Jacques (Corpus Christi) Canadian Space Agency astronaut

Philosophers

A–M

G. E. M. Anscombe (Newnham)
Kwame Anthony Appiah (Clare)
Sri Aurobindo (King's)
Sir Francis Bacon (Trinity)
Cristina Bicchieri (Wolfson)
Simon Blackburn (Trinity/Churchill)
Alain de Botton (Caius)
R. B. Braithwaite (King's)
C. D. Broad (Trinity)
Myles Burnyeat (King's/Robinson)
Jeremy Butterfield (Trinity)
Gary Chartier (Queens')
Samuel Clarke (Caius)
Stephen R. L. Clark (Queens')
William Kingdon Clifford (Trinity)
Tim Crane (Trinity)
Aleister Crowley (Trinity)
Ralph Cudworth (Emmanuel/Christ's/Clare)
Richard Cumberland (Magdalene)
Don Cupitt (Emmanuel)
Desiderius Erasmus (Queens')
Paul Feyerabend (unknown)
Peter Geach (unknown)
Raymond Geuss (none)
Mary Louise Gill
Susan Haack (New Hall)
Ian Hacking (Trinity)
Charles Hampden-Turner (Trinity)
David Hartley (Jesus)
Mary Hesse (unknown)
Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Trinity)
Nicholas Jardine (Darwin)
Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones (Girton)
Philip Kitcher (Christ's)
Martin Kusch (unknown)
Georg Kreisel (Trinity)
Imre Lakatos (King's)
Casimir Lewy (Trinity)
E. J. Lowe (Fitzwilliam)
John Lucas (Corpus Christi)
Donald M. MacKinnon (unknown)
Ruth Barcan Marcus (Clare Hall)
Margaret Masterman (Lucy Cavendish)
Marshall McLuhan (Trinity Hall)
J. M. E. McTaggart (Trinity)
Hugh Mellor (Pembroke/Darwin)
G. E. Moore (Trinity)
Henry More (Christ's)
Peter Munz (unknown)
Iris Murdoch (Newnham)

N–Z

Michael Oakeshott (Caius)
C. K. Ogden (Magdalene)
Onora O'Neill (Newnham)
G. E. L. Owen (unknown)
William Paley (Christ's)
Sir Karl Popper (Darwin)
Graham Priest (St John's)
Frank P. Ramsey (Magdalene/Trinity/King's)
Bertrand Russell (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
George Santayana (King's)
Duns Scotus (unknown)
Roger Scruton (Jesus/Peterhouse)
Henry Sidgwick (Trinity)
B. F. Skinner (Churchill)
Timothy Smiley (Clare)
John Smith (Emmanuel/Queens')
Timothy Sprigge (Caius)
George Steiner (Churchill)
C. L. Stevenson (unknown)
Leo Strauss (Caius)
Galen Strawson (unknown)
Stephen Toulmin (King's)
John Venn (Caius)
Michael Walzer (unknown)
James Ward (Fitzwilliam/Trinity)
William Whewell (Trinity)
Benjamin Whichcote (Emmanuel/King's)
Alfred North Whitehead (Trinity)
Sir Bernard Williams (King's)
John Wisdom (Trinity)
Ludwig Wittgenstein (Trinity)
John Worthington (Emmanuel/Jesus)
Crispin Wright (Trinity)

Economists

R. G. D. Allen (Sidney Sussex)
Peter Thomas Bauer (Caius)
Rowland Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer (Trinity)
David Bensusan-Butt (King's)
Christopher Bliss (King's)
D. G. Champernowne (King's & Trinity)
Cameron Cobbold, 1st Baron Cobbold (King's)
John James Cowperthwaite (Christ's)
Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe (Trinity)
Maurice Dobb (Pembroke/Trinity)
Angus Deaton (Fitzwilliam)
Gérard Debreu (Churchill) Nobel Prize winner
Robert Fogel (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner*
Milton Friedman (Caius) Nobel Prize winner*
John Kenneth Galbraith (Trinity)
Sir Edward George (Emmanuel)
Anthony Giddens (King's)
Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet (Christ's)
Noreena Hertz (King's)
John C. Hull (unknown)
John Hicks (Caius) Nobel Prize winner
John Maynard Keynes (King's)
Mervyn King (King's/St John's)
Patrick Lynch (Peterhouse)
Thomas Malthus (Jesus)
Alfred Marshall (St John's)
James Meade (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
James Mirrlees (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
Montagu Norman, 1st Baron Norman (King's)
Douglass North (Girton) Nobel Prize winner*
Arthur Pigou (King's)
Rogelio Ramírez de la O (Fitzwilliam)
Frank P. Ramsey (Magdalene/Trinity/King's)
Gordon Richardson (Caius)
Austin Robinson (Sidney Sussex)
Joan Robinson (Girton/Newnham/King's)
Amartya Sen (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
Piero Sraffa (Trinity)
Joseph Stiglitz (Caius/Fitzwilliam) Nobel Prize winner
Richard Stone (Caius/King's) Nobel Prize winner
Arthur Cecil Pigou (King's)
Yuen Pau Woo (unknown)

" * " Not part of official Cambridge Nobel count.

Historians

A–M

Lord Acton (Trinity)
Frank Adcock (King's)
Liaquat Ahamed (Trinity) Pulitzer Prize winner
David Armitage (unknown)
Tony Badger (Sidney Sussex/Clare)
Jonathan Bate (St. Catharine's/Trinity Hall)
Lawrence Brockett (Trinity)
J. B. Bury (Trinity)
Sir Herbert Butterfield (Peterhouse)
Sir Denis William Brogan (Peterhouse)
Hugh Brogan (St John's)
Oscar Browning (King's)
Sir David Cannadine (Clare/Christ's)
E. H. Carr (Trinity)
Hector Munro Chadwick (Clare)
John Chadwick (Corpus Christi)
Simon Coleman (unknown)
Linda Colley (Girton/Newnham/Christ's)
Patrick Collinson (Pembroke)
John S. Conway (St John's)
G. G. Coulton (St Catharine's)
Maurice Cowling (Jesus/Peterhouse)
Jodocus Crull (King's)
William Dalrymple (Trinity)
Isaac Deutscher (unknown)
John Elliott (Trinity)
Sir Geoffrey Elton (Clare)
Richard J. Evans (Caius)
Robert Evans (Jesus)
David N. Farr (Clare Hall) British historian and schoolmaster
Niall Ferguson (Christ's/Peterhouse)
Orlando Figes (Caius)
Sir James Frazer (Trinity)
David J. Garrow (Homerton) Pulitzer Prize winner
Thomas Gray (Peterhouse/Pembroke)
Bernard Green
John Guy (Clare)
Sir (Hrothgar) John Habakkuk (St John's)
Alfred Cort Haddon (Christ's) father of modern anthropology
Basil Liddell Hart (Corpus Christi)
Tobias Hecht (Clare Hall) American anthropologist
Marko Attila Hoare (unknown)
Eric Hobsbawm (King's)
Richard Holmes (Emmanuel)
Lisa Jardine (Newnham/Jesus/King's)
Nicholas Jardine (Darwin)
Tony Judt (King's)
Alexander William Kinglake (Trinity)
Wilbur Knorr (unknown)
David Knowles (Christ's/Peterhouse)
Peter Laslett (St John's)
John Leland (Christ's) father of English history
John Le Neve (Trinity)
Carenza Lewis (Corpus Christi)
Thomas Babington Macaulay (Trinity)
Diarmaid MacCulloch (Churchill)
Sir Henry James Sumner Maine (Pembroke/Trinity Hall)
F. W. Maitland (Trinity)
Peter Mathias (Jesus/Queens'/Downing)

N–Z

Joseph Needham (Caius)
Roy Franklin Nichols (unknown) Pulitzer Prize winner
C. Northcote Parkinson (Emmanuel)
Sir John H. Plumb (Christ's/King's)
Justin Pollard (Downing)
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet (Trinity)
Roy Porter (Christ's/Churchill)
Sir Michael Postan (Peterhouse)
Eileen Power (Girton)
Sir George Prothero (King's)
Andrew Roberts (Caius)
Sir Steven Runciman (Trinity)
Simon Schama (Christ's)
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Peterhouse) Pulitzer Prize winner
Simon Sebag-Montefiore (Caius)
Sir John Robert Seeley (Christ's/Caius)
Quentin Skinner (Caius/Christ's)
Denis Mack Smith (Peterhouse)
Sir Henry Spelman (Trinity)
Tom Stannage (unknown)
David Starkey (Fitzwilliam)
Norman Stone (Caius/Jesus/Trinity)
Harold McCarter Taylor (Clare)
Harold Temperley (King's/Peterhouse)
E. P. Thompson (Corpus Christi)
G. M. Trevelyan (Trinity)
Hugh Trevor-Roper (Peterhouse)
Shallet Turner (Peterhouse)
George Waddington (Trinity)
Sir Adolphus William Ward (Peterhouse)
Robert M. Young (King's)

Armed forces

Charles Cornwallis (Clare) Lieutenant General
Oliver Cromwell (Sidney Sussex) Lord Protector
Sir Richard Dearlove (Queens'/Pembroke) Head of Secret Intelligence Service
Arthur Estcourt (Magdalene) First World War Soldier
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
Louis Mountbatten (Christ's) First Sea Lord
Arthur Tedder (Magdalene) First World War RAF Pilot
General Sir Peter Anthony Wall, KCB, CBE, ADC Gen. Chief of General Staff, British Army, and Chief Royal Engineer
Frank Ludlow (Sidney Sussex) Botanist and Army officer
Siegfried Sassoon (Clare) Poet, and Lieutenant, Sussex Yeomanry. Awarded the Military Cross for actions during World War I

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
Sir William Cecil (St John's) Responsible for revitalising Stamford School in 1548
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
Hugh Childers (Trinity) Founder of the University of Melbourne
Sir Samuel Curran (St John's) Founder, first Principle 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
Malcolm Grant (Clare) Provost and President of University College London
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 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 Hari Singh Gour (Downing) Founder and Vice-chancellor of the University of Delhi, the University of Nagpur and the University of Sagar
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
Ian Lambert (Hughes Hall) Principal of The Scots College
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
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
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
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
Sir Thomas Sutton (unknown) Founder of Charterhouse School
John Sperling (King's) Founder of the University of Phoenix
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 Maurice Wilson (St John's) Headmaster of Clifton College
Michael Young (Churchill) Co-founder of The Open University

Entrepreneurs, business leaders and philanthropists

A–M

Marcus Agius (Trinity Hall) Financier and businessman, chairman of Barclays bank
Lord Robert Alexander (King's) Chairman of the NatWest bank
Simon Ambrose (Magdalene) Business entrepreneur, winner of The Apprentice
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
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
David Cleevely (unknown) Entrepreneur and international telecoms expert, co-founder and Chief Executive of Abcam plc
Lord David Cobbold (King's) Proprietor of Knebworth House and founder of the Knebworth Rock Festival
Simon Murray (Jesus) Senior Director of Strategy, Curatorship and External Affairs & Deputy to the Director General of the National Trust and Chief Party Starter.
Gerald Corbett (unknown) 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 & Group of Thirty
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 & Management Consultant and Philanthropist
Andrew Gower (Fitzwilliam) Video game developer, co-founder of Jagex Ltd and founder of RuneScape
Sir Brandon Gough (Jesus) Business leader, Chairman of Yorkshire Water, Coopers & Lybrand, and De La Rue plc
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
Sir Henry Keswick (Trinity) Chairman of Jardine Matheson Holdings
Raymond Kwok (Jesus) Hong Kong property billionaire
Randy Lerner (Clare) American sports entrepreneur, owner of Cleveland Browns and Aston Villa F.C.
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
Paul Mellon (Clare) Philanthropist, owner of Mellon Financial Corporation
Liam Mooney (Hughes Hall) Entrepreneur living in Dubai
Zia Mody (Selwyn) Founding Partner of AZB & Partners, India's second-largest law firm

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
Nathan Myhrvold (unknown) Formerly Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft and co-founder of Intellectual Ventures
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)
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
Rod Smallwood (Trinity) and Andy Taylor (Trinity) Music entrepreneurs, managers of Iron Maiden, founders 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 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
Roger J. Hamilton (Trinity) Social Entrepreneur, Futurist, Creator of Wealth Dynamics, Talent Dynamics, Founder of Entrepreneurs Institute
Dorabji Tata (Caius) Indian industrialist and philanthropist, Chairman of the Tata Group
Kenneth Thomson (St John's) & David Thomson (Selwyn) Canada's wealthiest family, Thomson Corp. (information services)
David Thomson (Trinity) Canada's wealthiest family, Thomson Corp. (information services)
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)
Tim Waterstone (St Catharine's) Founder of Waterstone's (1982), the largest specialist bookseller in the UK
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 (unknown) Founder and CEO of SOHO China

The Law

Judges and lawyers

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
Mirza Hameedullah Beg (Trinity) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India (1977–1978)
Christopher Bentley (Wolfson) Attorney General of Ontario (2007–)
Paul Clement (Darwin) Attorney General of the United States (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–)
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 and was influential on early American law
Alvin Robert Cornelius (Selwyn) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (1960–1968)
Charles Falconer (Queens') British Lord Chancellor (2003–2007)
Rosalyn Higgins (Girton) First female International Court of Justice judge, President (2006–2009)
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
Anthony Gates (Fitzwilliam) Chief Justice of the High Court of Fiji (2007–)
Lord Peter Goldsmith (Caius) Attorney General for England, Wales and Northern Ireland (2001–2007)
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) Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (2009–)
Mohammad Hidayatullah (Trinity) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India (1968–1970), first Muslim to attain the post
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
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
Makhdoom Ali Khan (Corpus Christi) Attorney General of Pakistan (2001–2007)
Susan Kiefel (Wolfson) Justice of the High Court of Australia (2007–)
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)
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
S.M.Mir (Christ's) Prime Minister/Chief Minister Tonk State (1945–46)District and Sessions Judge
Zia Mody (Selwyn) Founding Partner of AZB & Partners, India's second-largest law firm^{[citation needed]}
Chan Seng Oon (Hughes Hall) Justice of the Supreme Court of Singapore (2007–)
Hisashi Owada (unknown) International Court of Justice judge, President (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 James Scarlett (Trinity) 1769–1844 Judge, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer
Sir Peter Singer (Selwyn) British High Court Judge
Sir Hari Singh Gour (Downing) Author of the Indian Penal Code, Member of the Legislative Assembly
Sir Peter Smith (Selwyn) British High Court Judge
Choo Han Teck (Hughes Hall) Justice of the Supreme Court of Singapore (2003–)
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
Walter Woon (St John's) Attorney-General of Singapore (2008–2010)

Legal academics

Gary Chartier (Queens') US anarchist legal theorist
Lawrence Lessig (Trinity) US Cyberlaw expert, founder of the Creative Commons movement, free software advocate

Journalists and media personalities

Karan Thapar (Pembroke)
J. R. Ackerley (unknown)
Clive Anderson (Selwyn)
Neal Ascherson (King's)
Sir David Attenborough (Clare)
Martin Bell (King's)
Jasmine Birtles (Christ's)
Alain de Botton (Caius)
Christopher Booker (Corpus Christi)
Bill Buford (King's)
John F. Burns (King's) Pulitzer Prize winner
Humphrey Burton (Fitzwilliam) Emmy Award winner
Pat Chapman (Fitzwilliam)
Alistair Cooke (Jesus)
Ted Conover (unknown)
Tamasin Day-Lewis (King's)
Larry Elliott (Fitzwilliam)
Sir David Frost (Caius)
Stephen Fry (Queens')
Jonathan Galassi (Christ's)
James K. Galbraith (King's)
Bamber Gascoigne (Magdalene)
Dermot Gleeson (Fitzwilliam)
Germaine Greer (Newnham)
Andrew Gowers (Caius)
James Harding (Trinity)
Johann Hari (King's)
Charlotte Hudson (Fitzwilliam)
Arianna Huffington (Girton)
Konnie Huq (Robinson)
Clive James (Pembroke)
Spencer Kelly (unknown)
Lewis H. Lapham (Magdalene)
Andrew Marr (Trinity Hall)
Kevin McCloud (Corpus Christi)
John McPhee (unknown) Pulitzer Prize winner
Malcolm Muggeridge (Selwyn)
John Oliver (Christ's)
Jeremy Paxman (St Catharine's)
George Plimpton (King's)
Andrew Rawnsley (Sidney Sussex)
Alan Rusbridger (Magdalene)
Roxana Saberi (Hughes Hall)
John Simpson (Magdalene)
Noel Thompson (St Catharine's)
Carol Vorderman (Sidney Sussex)
Richard Whiteley (Christ's) TV presenter
Claudia Winkleman (New Hall)
Peregrine Worsthorne (Peterhouse)

Sportspeople

Athletes

Harold Abrahams (Caius) Olympian Gold Medalist (sprinter, long jumper)
David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter (Magdalene) Olympian Gold Medalist (hurdler)
Syed Mohammad Hadi (Peterhouse) Multi-talented India international
Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker (King's) Nobel Prize winner (runner)

Bridge

Tom Townsend, Britain and England international and writer.

Backgammon

Zoe Cunningham, 2010 Ladies World Backgammon Champion and business executive

Cricketers

Sir George "Gubby" Allen (Trinity) England captain (1936–1948)
Mike Atherton (Downing) England captain (1993–1998), lead 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 (1977–1980)
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)

Cyclists

Emma Pooley (Trinity Hall) Olympic silver medal (2008), world time trial champion (2010)

Footballers

Arthur Dunn (King's) England international (1883–1892)
Percy de Paravicini (Trinity) England international (1883–1884)
Alfred Lyttelton (Trinity) First man to play both cricket and football for England
Steve Palmer (Christ's) English Premier League footballer, most notably at Ipswich Town F.C. (1989-2006)
John Veitch (unknown) England international (1894)

Mountaineers

E. S. Kennedy (Caius)
George Mallory (Magdalene)

Racing drivers

Oliver Turvey (Fitzwilliam) GP2 Driver (2010–)

Racehorse trainers

John Gosden (unknown)

Rowers

Milan Bruncvík Czech Olympian
Sir Adrian Cadbury (King's) 1952 Olympian and former Chairman of Cadbury plc
Rebecca Dowbiggin (Emmanuel) British cox
Tom James (Trinity Hall) two-time Olympic gold medallist (2008, 2012)
David Jennens (Clare) European Champion and Olympian (1952)
George Christopher Nash (St Catherine's) British Olympic bronze medallist (2012)
Shane O'Mara (Hughes Hall) American rower
Alistair Potts (Trinity Hall) World Champion cox
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)
Annie Vernon (Downing) Olympic silver medallist (2008)
Anna Watkins (Newnham) Olympic gold medallist (2012)
Josh West (Caius) Olympic silver medallist (2008)
Kieran West (Christ's/Pembroke) Olympic gold medallist (2000)
Sarah Winckless (Fitzwilliam) World Champion and Olympic bronze medallist (2004)

Rugby footballers

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)
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)
Chris Sheasby (Hughes Hall) England international (1993, 1996-1997)
Tony Underwood (Hughes Hall) England international (1992-1998)
Dan Vickerman (Hughes Hall) Australia international (2002–2008)
Wavell Wakefield (Pembroke) England international (1920–1927)

Table tennis players

Deng Yaping (Jesus) Olympic Gold Medalist and World Champion

Winter sports

Billy Fiske (Trinity Hall) Youngest US Olympic Gold Medalist (bobsleigh)

Sports administrators

H. de Winton and J. C. Thring (Trinity) Formalised rules of association football (soccer)
John Veitch (unknown) President of Marylebone Cricket Club (1898)

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
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
George Mallory (Magdalene) Possibly the first man ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest
St. John Philby (Trinity) Leading Arabist and explorer of the Middle East
John Robinson (Corpus Christi) The pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers
William Wentworth-FitzWilliam (Trinity) Explorer of Western Canada, first "tourist" to travel through the Yellowhead Pass
Roger Williams (Pembroke) Founder of Rhode Island, known for attempts to cooperate with Native Americans
John Winthrop (Trinity) Founder and first Governor of Massachusetts

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