List of alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

The following is a list of notable people educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. It includes alumni of Gonville Hall, as the college was known after its foundation in 1348, as well as those who studied at the college after its second foundation by John Caius in 1557. The college's alumni include politicians, civil servants, academics, athletes and business people. The college also has a long-standing association with medical teaching and has educated a number of significant physicians, including John Caius, William Harvey (a pioneer of anatomy), Francis Crick (joint discoverer of the structure of DNA) and Howard Florey (co-discoverer of Penicillin).

Crest of Gonville and Caius College

Members of Gonville and Caius include fourteen Nobel Prize winners, the second-most of any Oxbridge college (after Trinity College, Cambridge). Six of them were students at the college: Charles Scott Sherrington (1932, in Medicine), James Chadwick (1935, in Physics), Francis Crick (1962, in Medicine), Antony Hewish (1974, in Physics), Richard Stone (1984, in Economics) and J. Michael Kosterlitz (2016, in Physics).

Politicians

Kenneth Clarke

Chris Davies

• Jack Ashley – Labour politician and peer
• Ernest Baggallay – Conservative politician
• Esmond Birnie – Ulster Unionist Party politician and former member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
• Paul Bryan – Conservative politician
• Alastair Campbell – former Labour politician and aide to Tony Blair
• Robert Carr – Conservative MP and Home Secretary (1972–1974)
• Kenneth Clarke – Conservative MP, Father of the House, former Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice and former Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Bob Clay – Labour politician
• Rice Richard Clayton – Conservative politician
• Chris Davies – Liberal Democrat MEP
• Quentin Davies – Labour politician and former MP for Grantham and Stamford (1987–2010)
• Peter Fraser – Scottish Conservative politician
• Elwyn Jones – Labour politician, Lord Chancellor (1974–1979)
• Thomas Lynch Jr. – signatory, United States Declaration of Independence
• Iain Macleod – Conservative MP and former Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Inagaki Manjirō – Japan's first Minister Resident in Siam in 1897
• Keith Vaz – Labour politician
• Vivian Wineman – President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews

Civil servants

• Jerome Alexander – High Court judge in Ireland (died 1670), noted for the exceptional severity of his sentences
• Edward Alderson – judge
• Nigel Baker – diplomat and former British ambassador to Bolivia and the Holy See
• Richard Baggallay – Conservative politician and judge of the Court of Appeal
• Henry Bedingfield – judge
• Thomas Bedingfield – judge
• Anton Bertram – barrister and Chief Justice of Ceylon (1918–1925)
• Henry Bickersteth – law reformer
• John Lindow Calderwood – lawyer and politician
• Alan Campbell – diplomat, former ambassador to Ethiopia (1969–1972) and to Italy (1976–1979)
• George William Chad – diplomat
• Alan Charlton – diplomat and former British ambassador to Brazil (2008–2013)
• Christopher Clarke – Court of Appeal of England and Wales (2013–2017)
• Robin Cooke – New Zealand's only judge to have sat in the House of Lords
• Samuel Cooke – judge
• Geoffrey Allan Crossley – former ambassador to Colombia (1973–7) and the Holy See (1978–1980)
• Duncan Cumming – colonial administrator
• Michael Davenport – current British Ambassador to Kuwait (2017–)
• Alun Talfan Davies – Welsh judge
• Patrick Dean – British Ambassador to the United States (1965–1969)
• George French – Chief Justice of Sierra Leone and the British Supreme Court for China and Japan
• John Hookham Frere – diplomat and author
• Peter Goldsmith – Attorney General of England and Wales, 2001–2007
• Charles Kennedy – diplomat
• John F. Lehman – American Secretary of the Navy and member of the September 11th Commission
• Lester Paul Wright – civil servant and Under Secretary at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (1992–1999)
• Percy Wyn-Harris – colonial administrator and Governor of the Gambia (1949–1958)

Physicians

William Harvey

Martin Davy

• George Francis Abercrombie – physician and co-founder of the College of General Practitioners
• John Carr Badeley – physician
• John Caius – physician and second founder of the college in 1557
• Andrew Whyte Barclay – physician
• Andrew Balfour – medical writer and novelist
• William Butts – King Henry VIII's physician
• George Burrows – physician and President of the Royal College of Physicians
• Henry Burton – physician and chemist, discoverer of Burton's line
• Walter Butler Cheadle – paediatrician
• John Brian Christopherson – physician and a pioneer of chemotherapy
• Cyril Clarke – physician, geneticist and lepidopterist
• Rodney Cove-Smith – physician and rugby player
• Maurice Craig – psychiatrist
• Martin Davy – physician, academic and master of the college (1803–1838)
• Arthur Farre – obstetric physician
• Harold Gillies – "the father of plastic surgery"
• William Harvey – medical pioneer
• Bill Inman – pharmacovigilance pioneer
• Basil Mackenzie – physician
• Walter Myers – physician and parasitologist
• Howard Somervell – surgeon, mountaineer, and missionary
• Richard Tomlinson – former British MI6 officer

Academics

Mathematicians

• Alexander Brown – mathematician and educator in South Africa
• J. F. Cameron – mathematician, Master of the college (1928–1948) and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University
• Harish-Chandra – mathematician
• Eugenia Cheng – mathematician
• John Horton Conway – mathematician
• Quentin Stafford-Fraser – computer scientist, and inventor of the webcam
• George Green – mathematician
• Chandrashekhar Khare – mathematician
• John Venn – logician, inventor of the Venn diagram
• Richard Gill – mathematician

Physicists

Lord Broers

• Thomas Allibone – physicist
• Étienne Biéler – Canadian physicist
• Homi J. Bhabha – Indian nuclear physicist and father of India's nuclear programme
• Max Born – Nobel Prize-winning physicist
• Cecil Reginald Burch – physicist and engineer
• Lord Broers – vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, 1996–2003
• Sam Edwards – Welsh physicist
• David J. Farrar – aeronautical engineer
• Christopher Green – Regius professor of Physic, 1700–1741
• Basil Schonland – physicist
• Alec David Young – aeronautical engineer

Biologists and chemists

• Ed Anderson – chemist
• Richard St. Barbe Baker – Founder Men of the Trees precursor of (International Tree Foundation)
• George Thomas Bettany – biologist
• Isaac Henry Burkill – botanist
• Lawrence Michael Brown – material scientist
• Thomas Cavalier-Smith – evolutionary biologist
• Philip S. Corbet – entomologist
• Robert Percival Cook – biochemist
• Ronald Fisher – biologist and statistician
• John William Scott Macfie – entomologist
• Stephen Marchant – ornithologist
• Dominic Serventy – Australian ornithologist and conservationist
• E. Barton Worthington (1905–2001) – ecologist and science administrator

Geographers

• Ralph Alger Bagnold – explorer and geologist
• John Brereton – chronicler of the first European voyage to New England, 1602
• Piers Blaikie – geographer
• John Frederick Blake – clergyman and geologist
• Gordon Manley – climatologist
• Josh West (born 1977) – British-American Olympic rower and Earth Sciences professor
• Edward Adrian Wilson – explorer who died with Robert Falcon Scott in the Antarctic

Historians

Andrew Roberts

• Tobias Abse – historian
• Francis Blomefield – historian of Norfolk
• Christopher N. L. Brooke – Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, 1997–1994; life fellow of the college until his death in 2015
• Rajnarayan Chandavarkar – historian of South Asia
• Alfred Cobban – historian of France
• Geoffrey Crossick – historian and Vice-Chancellor of London University, 2010–2012
• I. E. S. Edwards – egyptologist, leading expert on Egyptian pyramids
• David Feldman – historian
• Orlando Figes – historian
• Harold James – historian
• Colin Kidd – historian
• Richard Overy – historian
• Andrew Roberts – historian
• Simon Sebag Montefiore – historian and journalist
• Norman Stone – historian
• Lars Tharp – historian and broadcaster
• Stephen Tuck – historian, fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford

Classics, literature and languages

• James Adam – classicist
• Robert Lubbock Bensly – orientalist
• Edward Valentine Blomfield – classicist
• William Ridgeway – classicists and Disney Professor of Archaeology (1892–1926)
• D. R. Shackleton Bailey – classicist
• Stanley Arthur Cook – Regius Professor of Hebrew (1932–1938)
• A. C. Spearing – author, professor of English medieval literature

Philosophers and Political Scientists

• Mantas Adomėnas – Lithuanian philosopher
• Tim Bale – political scientist
• Michael Joseph Oakeshott – philosopher

Scholars of law

• William Warwick Buckland – scholar of Roman Law, Regius Professor of Civil Law (1914–1945)
• Henry Chauncy – scholar of law and antiquarian
• Graham J. Zellick – legal scholar and former Vice Chancellor of the University of London

Theologians

• Henry Ainsworth – nonconformist theologian and scholar
• Thomas Allen – nonconformist minister and preacher
• Robert Allwood – clergyman in colonial Australia
• William Anderson – Bishop of Salisbury
• William Ayerst – clergyman and missionary
• Thomas Bacon – fifteenth master of the college
• Thomas Ball – Archdeacon of Chichester
• John Ballard – priest and conspirator in the Babington Plot
• Joshua Bassett – cleric and Master of Sidney Sussex College
• George Bland – Archdeacon of Lindisfarne (1844–53) and Archdeacon of Northumberland (1853–1880)
• Henry Bousfield Bishop of Pretoria (1878–1902)
• Thomas Braddock – clergyman and translator
• F. F. Bruce – biblical scholar
• Spencer Carpenter – clergyman and theologian
• Benedict Chapman – theologian and Master of the college (1839–1852)
• John Clarke (Dean of Salisbury) – clergyman and natural philosopher
• Samuel Clarke – clergyman and philosopher
• Charles Coates – cleric and antiquarian
• Jeremy Collier – theologian and theatre critic
• John Cosin – Bishop of Durham (1660–72) and Master of Peterhouse (1635–1643)
• Arthur Crosse – Archdeacon of Furness (1884–1893)
• Islwyn Davies – clergyman and theologian
• Jeremy Taylor – author and cleric
• G. H. Pember – theologian
• Arthur Rawson Ashwell – theologian
• St. Vincent Beechey – clergyman and photographer

Economists

• Peter Thomas Bauer – Hungarian development economist
• Bevan Morris – president of Maharishi University of Management
• Richard Stone – Nobel Prize-winning economist

Artists, writers and musicians

E. R. Braithwaite

Charles Montague Doughty

• Julian Anderson – composer
• Charles Frederick Barnwell – curator and antiquarian
• Robert Baron – poet
• Henry Bell – architect
• Edwin Keppel Bennett – poet
• Alain de Botton – popular philosophy writer
• Thomas Boyce – dramatist
• E. R. Braithwaite – novelist and critic of racial discrimination
• Thomas Broughton – clergyman and writer
• James Burrough (architect) – architect and Master of the college (1754–1764)
• Arnold Cooke – composer
• William Clubbe – clergyman and poet
• Richard Cobbold – writer
• John Dighton – playwright and screenwriter
• Charles Montagu Doughty – poet and explorer, author of Travels in Arabia Deserta
• Paul Fincham – British composer
• Geoff Nicholson – novelist
• Thomas Shadwell – playwright, Poet Laureate
• Joseph Thurston – poet
• William Wilkins – architect

Athletes

• Harold Abrahams – Olympic athlete, men's 100-metre gold medalist, portrayed in the film Chariots of Fire
• Gerry Alexander – cricketer
• Basil Allen – cricketer
• Frederick Arnold – rower and clergyman
• Randolph Aston – rugby player
• Harold Bache – cricketer
• Edward Baily – cricketer
• Andrew Baddeley – middle distance runner
• John Bateman-Champain – cricketer
• Iftikhar Bokhari – former Pakistani cricketer who played first-class cricket, 1952–1966
• Charles Brune – cricketer
• Ernest Brutton – rugby player and cricketer
• William Cave – rugby player
• Arthur Ceely – cricketer
• Ronald Cove-Smith – Captain of England rugby team and the 1924 Lions team
• Alexander Cowie – cricketer and poet
• Thomas Selby Egan – first cox to win The Boat Race for Cambridge University
• Richard Geaves – international footballer
• John Grimshaw – creator of the National Cycle Network and the Sustrans charity
• Michael Taylor – cricketer, historian, and member of the 2015 University Challenge championship team
• William Yatman – rower and artist
• Arthur Young – rugby player

Media, journalists and entertainers

Gideon Rachman

• Alistair Appleton – TV presenter
• Simon Russell Beale – actor, author and music historian
• Charles Beavan – law reporter
• Jimmy Carr – comedian and presenter of The Big Fat Quiz of the Year
• Helen Castor – historian and broadcaster
• Thomas Chenery – editor of The Times (1877–1884)
• Mark Damazer – controller of BBC Radio 4 and Master of St Peter's College, Oxford
• Jonathan Davis – journalist, formerly of the Financial Times
• Anatole de Grunwald – Russian British film producer and screenwriter
• Carolyn Fairbairn – media executive
• David Elstein – media executive, founder of Channel 5 television
• David Frost – broadcaster
• Tim Gardam – journalist and educator
• Andrew Gowers – journalist
• Stephen Mangan – actor
• Gideon Rachman – journalist
• Mick Rock – photographer
• Holly Walsh – comedian
• Sophie Watts – film and media executive
• Mark Wing-Davey – actor and director

Business

Dorabji Tata

• John Arbuthnott – businessman and peer
• Charles Barlow – businessman and philanthropist
• Nigel Howard Croft – chairman of the ISO/TC 176
• Thomas Gresham – founder of the Royal Exchange
• Anthony Habgood – chairman of Reed Elsevier and Whitbread
• Douglas Myers – businessman and philanthropist
• Dorabji Tata – Indian industrialist and philanthropist
• Adair Turner – businessman

Other

• Geoffrey Appleyard – British Army officer
• Harold Ackroyd – recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions in the Battle of Passchendaele
• Peter Churchill – Special Operations Executive (SOE) officer in France during the Second World War
• Brian de Courcy-Ireland – naval officer
• Henry St John Fancourt – naval aviator
• Lady Nicholas Windsor (Paola Doimi de Frankopan) – Croatian aristocrat and wife of Lord Nicholas Windsor
• Christopher Helm – publisher
• Michael Kidson – schoolmaster at Eton College
• Titus Oates – Popish plotter, "17th century's worst Briton"
• Percy Wyn-Harris – mountaineer, adventurer and one-time Governor of The Gambia
• Lawrence Beesley – science teacher and survivor of the Titanic