List of alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge

This is a list of notable alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge. Note that some of the alumni noted hereafter are connected to Trinity through honorary degrees. Not all studied at the College.

Politicians

Sir Francis Bacon lawyer, philosopher; Lord Chancellor

Enoch Powell, Conservative British politician

Lee Hsien-Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore

Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India

Vicky Ford, serving Conservative British politician

Prime Ministers

• Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1867–1947), Prime Minister 1923–24, 1924–29, 1935–37 (Conservative)
• Arthur Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848–1930), Prime Minister 1902–1905 (Conservative)
• Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836–1908), Prime Minister 1905–1908 (Liberal)
• Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991), Prime Minister of India, 1984–1989
• Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845), Prime Minister 1830–1834 (Whig); Great Reform Act (1832)
• William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848), Prime Minister 1834, 1835–1841 (Whig)
• Lee Hsien Loong (born 1952), Prime Minister of Singapore, 2004–present
• Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964), first Prime Minister of India, 1949–1964
• Anand Panyarachun (born 1932), Prime Minister of Thailand, 1991–1992 and again in 1992
• Spencer Perceval (1762–1812), Prime Minister 1809–1812 (Tory); assassinated
• William Waddington (1826–1894), French Prime Minister 1879; archaeologist

United Kingdom

• Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626), lawyer, philosopher; Lord Chancellor
• Gavin Barwell (born 1972), Downing Street Chief of Staff under Theresa May
• Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (also known as Marquess of Hartington) (1833–1908), politician
• Hugh Childers (1827–1896), Australian statesman, then British Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Sir Edward Coke (1552–1634), lawyer, politician; Chief Justice of the King's Bench
• Sir John Coke (1563–1644), politician
• John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington (1920–2005), Master of the Rolls
• Hugh Elliott, UK Ambassador to Spain and Andorra
• Frederick James Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale (1914–2000), British Minister
• Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine (1750–1823), Lord Chancellor, jurist
• Vicky Ford, Conservative MP for Chelmsford
• Sir Michael Foster (1836–1907), physiologist; MP (London University)
• Henry Goulburn (1784–1856), Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Roland Gwynne (1882–1971), politician and lover of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams
• Sir William Vernon Harcourt (1827–1904), Liberal statesman; home secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Douglas Hurd (born 1930), Conservative politician, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary
• George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe (1918–2007), statesman
• James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern (born 1927), Lord Chancellor 1987–1997
• John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland (also known as Lord John Manners) (1818–1906), Conservative statesman
• Sir Philip Miles (1825–1888), politician
• Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809–1885), politician, man of letters
• Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester (1656–1722), Whig statesman
• Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661–1715), founder of Bank of England, 1694; Chancellor of Exchequer
• John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718–1792), First Lord of the Admiralty; is claimed to have invented the sandwich
• George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax (1716–1771), Secretary of State
• Ernest Noel (1831–1931), MP for Dumfries Burghs, 1874–1886
• Anthony Nutting (1920–1999), politician and diplomat; Arabist
• Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham (1781–1851), lawyer, Lord Chancellor, 1846–1850
• Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780–1863), Whig statesman
• Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby (1797–1863), politician
• Enoch Powell (1912–1998), statesman; Minister of Health, 1960–3
• Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765–1802), Whig aristocrat
• Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (1662–1748), politician and Whig Grandee
• John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer (1782–1845), known as Lord Althorp; Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826–1893), Foreign Secretary
• William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw (1918–1999), statesman; Home Secretary, 1979–83

International

• Richard Blumenthal (born 1946), Senior U.S. Senator from Connecticut
• Puran Singh Bundela (born 1950), Indian politician
• Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905–1974), President of the Irish Republic, 1973–74
• Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (1866–1941), administrator; Viceroy of India
• Rahul Gandhi (born 1970), Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) for Wayanad and Former President of the Indian National Congress
• Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey (1851–1917), Governor-General of Canada, 1904–1911
• Charles Hawker (1894–1938), Australian politician
• Thomas Nelson (1738–1789), signatory of the American Declaration of Independence
• James Peter Obeyesekere (1915–2007), aviator and Sri Lankan minister
• John Winthrop (1587/8–1649), founder and first governor of Massachusetts

Royalty

King Edward VII

Charles, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Elizabeth II

King George VI

• The Prince of Wales (born 1948)
• King Edward VII (1841–1910), reigned 1901–1910
• King George VI (1895–1952), reigned 1936–1952
• Prince Ranjitsinhji (1872–1933), cricketer; Indian prince

Clergy

• Alfred Barry (1826–1920), Principal of King's College London (1868–1883), educationalist, and former Bishop of Sydney
• Edward White Benson (1829–1896), Archbishop of Canterbury, 1883–1896
• A. C. Bouquet (1884-1976), theologian, academic and writer
• Arthur Buxton (1882–1958), Chaplain to the Forces and Rector of All Souls Church, Langham Place[1]
• Matthew Blagden Hale, first Bishop of Perth; later Bishop of Brisbane, social and educational pioneer
• Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828–1889), Bishop of Durham; theologian
• Adam Loftus (1533–1605), Archbishop of Armargh and Dublin, Lord Chancellor of Ireland
• Handley Moule (1841–1920), Bishop of Durham; theologian
• Charles Perry (1807–1891), first Bishop of Melbourne
• John A. T. Robinson(1919–1983) theologian; Bishop of Woolwich, Dean of Trinity
• John Sanderson (c.1540–1602), priest and writer on logic
• The Reverend Canon Henry Spencer Stephenson, M.A. (1871–1957), chaplain to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II
• John Stott (1921–2011), Evangelical Church Leader
• John Tiarks (1903–1974), Bishop of Chelmsford
• Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1888), poet, Archbishop of Dublin; theorist of English Language
• Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901), Canon of Westminster, Bishop of Durham
• Robin Woods (1914–1997), Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Worcester

Law and justice

• Maurice Amos, friend of Bertrand Russell and Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London
• Robert Benson (1797–1844), barrister and judge
• Robert Carnwath, Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill (born 1945), Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
• Sue Carr (born 1965), Justice of the High Court
• Charles Sargent (1821 - 1900) Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court
• Nicholas Conyngham Tindal (1776–1786), celebrated lawyer and judge
• John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst (1772–1863), lawyer; Lord Chancellor 1827–1830; 1834–1835; 1841–1846
• Kenelm George Digby (1890–1944), High Court judge in India
• Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653), barrister, political philosopher
• Sir Christopher Floyd (born 1951), Lord Justice Floyd, appointed Lord Justice of Appeal in 2013
• Sir Travers Humphreys (1867–1956), judge
• George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (1645–1689), judge; Bloody Assizes; Lord Chancellor
• Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), legal historian
• Sir Frederick Pollock (1845–1937), jurist
• Sir David Richards (born 1951), judge in the High Court
• Paul Sandlands (1878-1962), judge, Recorder of Birmingham
• James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger (1769–1844), judge, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer
• Edward Vernon Utterson (c. 1776–1856), lawyer; one of the Six Clerks in Chancery; literary antiquary, collector and editor
• Humphrey Weld (of Lulworth) (1612-1685), lawyer; JP; MP; Gentleman of the Privy Chamber; landowner and recusant

Media and journalists

Alexander Armstrong actor, television presenter and comedian

• Alexander Armstrong (born 1970), actor, television presenter and comedian, known for The Armstrong and Miller Show and hosting Pointless with Richard Osman
• John Drummond (1934–2006), broadcaster, arts administrator, writer, director of BBC Proms and Radio 3
• Ian Fells, energy adviser and broadcaster
• Vanessa Feltz (born 1962), journalist and broadcaster
• Stephen Frears (born 1941), film director
• Mel Giedroyc (born 1968), comedian and television presenter; The Great British Bake Off
• James Harding (born 1969), editor of The Times
• Jonathan King (born 1944), pop impresario jailed for sexually abusing boys
• India Knight (born 1965), author and journalist
• John Lloyd (born 1951), comedy writer and television producer, known for the likes of the Blackadder series, Spitting Image, Not the Nine O'Clock News, The News Quiz and QI
• Richard Osman (born 1970), television presenter and producer, co-host of Pointless
• Eddie Redmayne (born 1982), Oscar-winning actor
• Herbert Vivian (born 1865), writer, journalist and newspaper proprietor

Academics and scientists

Sir Isaac Newton, one of the most influential scientists of all time

James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist

• John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902), historian
• Joseph Arthur Arkwright (1864–1944), bacteriologist, FRS
• Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859), historian, politician, and essayist
• John Haden Badley (1865–1967), educationalist, founder (1893) and headmaster (1893–1935) of Bedales School
• John Bell, Professor of Law, Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge
• Selig Brodetsky, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• James Challis (1803–1882), astronomer; twice observed Neptune without noting it, before its discovery
• Jared Diamond (born 1937), US physiologist and biogeographer, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Simon Digby (1932–2010), Oriental scholar
• Sir Arthur Eddington (1882–1944), astronomer
• Sir James Frazer (1854–1941), anthropologist; writer, The Golden Bough
• Sir Francis Galton (1822–1911), scientist; meteorology, heredity
• Christopher Grigson (1926–2001), electrical engineer and naval architect
• George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866–1923), Egyptologist; funded the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb
• Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside (1901–1983), nuclear engineer; constructed Calder Hall, the first large scale reactor
• Tristram Hunt (born 1974), historian and former politician
• Henry Jackson (1839–1921), classicist and reformer, Vice Master, 1914
• Ian Jacobs (born 1957), gynaecologist and academic
• David Gwilym James (1905–1968), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton, 1952–1968
• Sir Richard Jebb (1841–1905), Greek scholar
• Lawrence Lessig (born 1961), leading US cyberlaw expert, founder of the Creative Commons movement, and free software advocate
• Ling Wang (1917–1994), historian of science
• George Campbell Macaulay (1852–1915), classical scholar
• Sir Bernard Pares (1867–1956), historian in Russian history
• Nicholas Patrick (born 1964), NASA astronaut
• Richard Porson (1759–1808), classical scholar
• Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), social anthropologist
• Vilayanur Ramachandran (born 1947), psychologist, neuroscientist
• John Ray (1627–1705), naturalist; created the principles of plant classification
• Charles Rolls (1877–1910), co-founder of Rolls-Royce; aviator
• Hugh James Rose (1795–1838), Principal of King's College London (1836–1833)
• Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (1910–1990), zoologist, suspected Soviet sympathizer
• J. F. Roxburgh (1888–1954), classicist, first head master of Stowe School
• W.A.H. Rushton (1901–1980), physiologist, one time president of the Society for Psychical Research
• Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), geologist
• Cedric Smith (1917–2002), statistician and geneticist
• John Maynard Smith (1920–2004), evolutionary biologist and geneticist
• James Spedding (1808–1881), scholar; editor of Bacon's Works
• William Fox Talbot (1800–1877), inventor of photography
• John Arthur Todd (1908–1994), geometer
• Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1838–1928), historian; MP; father of G. M. Trevelyan
• William Thomas Tutte (1917–2002), Bletchley Park codebreaker and graph theorist
• John Waterlow (1913–2010), physiologist specialising in childhood malnutrition
• Tim Westoll (1919–1999), ornithologist
• George Michael Wickens (1918–2006), linguist and humanities scholar
• Francis Willughby (1635–1672), naturalist

Mathematicians

• Sir Michael Atiyah (1929-2019), mathematician, Fields Medal and Abel Prize winner
• Charles Babbage (1791–1871), mathematician, inventor of the automated programmable computer (transferred to Peterhouse college before graduating)
• Martin Beale (1928–1985), applied mathematician and statistician, FRS
• Hermann Bondi (1919–2005), mathematician and cosmologist
• Richard Borcherds (born 1959), mathematician, Fields Medallist
• Selig Brodetsky (1888–1954), mathematician, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Arthur Cayley (1821–1895), mathematician; non-Euclidean geometry, invented matrices
• Sydney Chapman (1888–1970), mathematician, geophysicist; kinetic theory, geomagnetism
• W. R. Dean (1896–1973), mathematician and fluid dynamicist
• Timothy Gowers (born 1963), mathematician, Fields Medal winner
• G. H. Hardy (1877–1947), mathematician; A Mathematician's Apology
• Sir James Jeans (1877–1946), astronomer, mathematician; stellar evolution
• John Edensor Littlewood (1885–1977), mathematician; Fourier Series, Zeta Function
• Edward Arthur Milne (1896–1950), mathematician
• Henry Wilbraham (25 July 1825 – 13 February 1883) periodic function.
• Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871), mathematician; symbolic logic
• Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727), mathematician, physicist; MP (Cambridge University)
• John Pell (1610–1685), mathematician
• Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920), mathematician; analytic number theory, elliptic integrals
• John Frankland Rigby (1933–2014), a specialist in complex analysis[2]
• James H. Wilkinson (1919–1986), mathematician

Philosophers

Bertrand Russell, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic

• Simon Blackburn (born 1944), philosopher
• C. D. Broad (1887–1971), philosopher
• Ian Hacking (born 1936), Canadian philosopher
• G. E. Moore (1873–1958), philosopher
• Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930), philosopher, mathematician, economist
• Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), philosopher
• Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900), philosopher, major proponent of women's colleges
• A. N. Whitehead (1861–1947), philosopher, mathematician
• Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher

Physicists

• Sir George Airy (1801–1895), astronomer, geophysicist
• Niels Bohr (1885–1962), quantum physicist
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995), astrophysicist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Freeman Dyson (1923–2020), physicist, proponent of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, Templeton Prize winner
• Thomas Eckersley (1886–1959), theoretical physicist and expert on radio waves
• Otto Frisch (1904–1979), nuclear physicist; first used the term 'nuclear fission'
• Louis Harold Gray (1905–1965), invented the field of radiobiology; namesake of unit of absorbed dose Gray
• J. B. Gunn (1928–2008), physicist; inventor of the Gunn diode
• Thomas Gold (1920–2004), astrophysicist
• Brian Josephson (born 1940), physicist; predicted the Josephson effect
• James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), physicist; electromagnetism
• William George Penney (1909–1991), nuclear physicist
• John Polkinghorne (born 1930), physicist, religious thinker, Templeton Prize winner
• Rajendran Raja (1948-2014), high-energy particle physicist who played a key role in the discovery of the top quark [3]
• Martin Ryle (1918–1984), radio astronomer; invented aperture synthesis
• Dennis William Sciama (1926–1999), physicist; played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War
• Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886–1975), physicist, mathematician; fluid dynamics, crystals
• Sir George Paget Thomson (1892–1975), physicist; electron diffraction
• Sir Peter Williams, physicist

Writers

Lord Tennyson, poet

Lord Byron, poet

Muhammad Iqbal, Islamic poet and philosopher

A. A. Milne, writer, author of Winnie the Pooh children's novels

• Clive Bell (1881–1964), art and literary critic; husband of Vanessa
• Charles Astor Bristed (1820–1874), American author and scholar
• George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788–1824), poet; "She Walks in Beauty", Don Juan
• Edward Hallet Carr (1892–1982), writer and international relations theorist
• Erskine Childers (1870–1922), writer, Irish Nationalist; The Riddle of the Sands
• Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), poet, dramatist – The Mistress
• George Crabbe (1754–1832), poet; did not matriculate
• Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), writer, poet, occultist, and 'Magician'; Magick in Theory and Practice
• Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), playwright; The Brothers, The West Indian
• Warwick Deeping (1877–1950), novelist
• Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1566–1601), soldier, courtier to Elizabeth I; executed for rebellion
• John Dryden (1631–1700), Poet Laureate; "Absalom and Achitophel"; translator of Virgil
• Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883), poet; Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
• Giles Fletcher (1588–1623), poet; "Christ's Victory" and "Triumph"
• George Gascoigne (1525–1577), poet, dramatist; "Jocasta", "The Glasse of Government"
• Edmund Gosse (1845–1928), poet, critic; On Viol and Flute
• Thom Gunn (1929–2004), Modernist poet
• George Herbert (1593–1633), poet
• Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859), poet, critic
• A. E. Housman (1859–1936), poet, classical scholar
• Henry Hyndman (1842–1921), English writer and politician
• Muhammad Iqbal (1875–1938), Islamic poet and philosopher
• Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1861–1938), poet, historian and senior civil servant
• Nathaniel Lee (1649–1692), dramatist; The Rival Queens
• John Lehmann (1907–1987), poet, man of letters; inaugurated The London Magazine
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873), novelist; The Last Days of Pompeii; politician
• Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), poet; "Horatian Ode", "The Rehearsal Transpros'd"; MP (Hull)
• Frederick Maurice (1805–1872), theologian, writer, Christian Socialist
• A. A. Milne (1882–1956), writer; Winnie-the-Pooh
• Nicholas Monsarrat (1910–1979), novelist; The Cruel Sea, Three Corvettes
• Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian and English novelist; Lolita
• Lenrie Peters (1932–2009), Gambian novelist, poet and educationist
• Thomas Randolph (1605–1635), poet, dramatist
• T. J. Cobden Sanderson (1840–1922), bookbinder; Arts and Crafts Movement pioneer
• Sir Henry Spelman (1562–1641), antiquary; Reliquiae Spelmannianae
• Lytton Strachey (1880–1932), biographer; Eminent Victorians; Bloomsbury Group
• Sir John Suckling (1609–1642), poet, dramatist
• Tom Taylor (1817–1880), Scottish dramatist; editor of Punch
• Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809–1892), poet – "Maud", "In Memoriam"
• William M. Thackeray (1811–1863), novelist; Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond (dropped out after second year)
• Sir George Trevelyan, 4th Baronet (1906–1996), educator, new age thinker and writer
• George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628–1687), wit, politician, dramatist; The Rehearsal; member of the 'Cabal'
• Raymond Williams (1921–1988), Marxist critic, novelist; The Country and the City
• Leonard Woolf (1880–1969), writer; husband of Virginia Woolf; Bloomsbury Group
• Geoffrey Winthrop Young (1876–1958), mountaineer and author

Sports

• George 'Gubby' Allen (1902–1989), cricketer – captained England; played in Bodyline series
• Sir George Branson (1871–1951), Cambridge rowing blue and High Court judge[4]
• Wing Commander Alan Cassidy MBE, born 1949. Trinity, 1967. National Aerobatic Champion, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003.

• Harry Chester Goodhart (1858–1895), twice FA Cup winner and England international footballer; Professor of Humanities at Edinburgh University[5]
• Geoffrey Hopley, cricketer
  * Dar Lyon (1898–1964), first class cricketer; Chief Justice of the Seychelles
• Philip Morton (1857–1925), cricketer and schoolmaster[6][7]
• Sir Peter Scott (1909–1989), artist, ornithologist; Olympic sailor (1936)
• Rev. Henry Holmes Stewart (1847–1937), FA Cup winner in 1873[8]
• Charles Plumpton Wilson (1859–1938), England footballer and Rugby player
• H. de Winton, created the first formal set of rules for Association football (The Cambridge Rules)
• Maxwell Woosnam (1892–1965), Olympic and Wimbledon lawn tennis champion and England national football team captain
• Andy Whittall, Zimbabwe cricketer

Spies

Kim Philby, Soviet spy

• Anthony Blunt (1907–1983), Soviet spy; art historian
• Guy Burgess (1910–1963), Soviet spy and traitor
• Michael Greenberg (1914–1992), Foreign Affairs Economist U.S. Foreign Economic Administration; Soviet spy
• Kim Philby (1911–1988), double agent; communist
• Michael Whitney Straight (1916–2004), US magazine publisher, presidential speechwriter, Soviet spy

Business

Francis Martineau Lupton, Businessman, landowner and politician

• Norman Blackwell, Baron Blackwell, (born 1952), businessman and politician
• Sir Andrew Thomas Cahn (born 1951), Vice Chairman for Public Policy of Nomura Group; former CEO of UK Trade & Investment
• Alfred Clayton Cole (1854–1920), Governor of the Bank of England
• Sanjeev Gupta (born 1971), businessman
• Sir Robin Ibbs (born 1926), banker
• David Layton (1914–2009), National Coal Board economist and industrial relations advisor
• Francis Martineau Lupton (d.1921), businessman, landowner, politician and great-great grandfather of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge[9][10]
• Sir Michael Adrian Richards (born 1951), former UK National Cancer Director; Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Care Quality Commission, from May 2013
• Rod Smallwood (born 1950), co-manager of Iron Maiden and co-founder of Sanctuary Records
• Andy Taylor (born 1951), co-manager of Iron Maiden and co-founder of Sanctuary Records
• John Tusa (born 1936), managing director of BBC World Service
• Simon Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise (born 1967), CEO of Next plc

Military

• Brigadier-General Charles Strathavon Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby (1870–1949), soldier
• James Yorke Scarlett (1799–1871), British general and hero of the Crimean War
• David Stirling (1915–1990), founder of the Special Air Service

Others

• Christopher Alexander (born 1936), architect, author of The Timeless Way of Building and father of the design patterns movement
• Hubert Chesshyre, retired British officer of arms found to have committed child sexual abuse[11]
• Terry Eagleton (born 1943), literary critic
• Nathaniel Eaton (1609–1674), first schoolmaster at Harvard
• James Clerk Maxwell Garnett CBE (1880–1958), educationist, barrister, and peace campaigner
• Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh (1878–1962), Indian Civil Service officer
• Antony Gormley (born 1950), sculptor, best known for Angel of the North 1968–71
• Stephen Greenhalgh (born 1967), Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime in London[12]
• Michael Gurstein (born 1944), Canadian community informatician
• Peter Llewellyn Gwynn-Jones (born 1940), Garter Principal King of Arms, 1995–
• Sir Stuart Milner-Barry (1906–1995), chess player, World War II codebreaker and civil servant
• William Smith O'Brien (1803–1864), Irish Nationalist
• Baron Kishichiro Okura (1882–1963), Japanese playboy and motor racing enthusiast
• St. John Philby (1885–1960), explorer of Arabia; father of Kim
• Alexander Ramsay of Mar (1919–2001), great grandson of Queen Victoria
• Sir Benegal Narsing Rau (1887–1952), Indian Civil Service officer
• Robert Vane Russell (1873-1915), Indian Civil Service officer and writer
• Anthony and Peter Shaffer (born 1926; Anthony died 2001), dramatists
• Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924), composer, organist
• Thomas Francis Wade (1818–1895), diplomat; developed a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese that formed the basis for the Wade–Giles system
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), composer; Sea Symphony, Pilgrim's Progress

References

1. "Buxton, Arthur", in Crockford's Clerical Directory (1930), p. 190
2. John Frankland Rigby (obituary) at cardiff.ac.uk, accessed 2 May 2019
3. Kates, Joan Giangrasse (February 27, 2014). "Rajendran Raja 1948-2014: Former Fermilab physicist helped discover top quark, Higgs boson". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois: Tribune Company. Retrieved June 4, 2014
4. J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part II, vol. I (1940), p. 365
5. "Harry Chester Goodhart". Picture of the Month. Trinity College. 1 June 2003. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
6. 'Mr. P. H. Morton' (obituary) in The Times, issue 43964 dated 18 May 1925, p. 21
7. Philip Howard Morton at CricketArchive, accessed 9 September 2013
8. Warsop, Keith (2004). The Early FA Cup Finals and the Southern Amateurs. SoccerData. pp. 126–127. ISBN 1-899468-78-1.
9. Elliot, Chris (24 January 2018). "Revealed: How Meghan Markle's ancestry was shaped by Cambridge". Cambridge News. Retrieved 4 March 2018. Olive (Middleton's) father was landowner Francis Martineau Lupton...
10. Walker, T. (4 June 2014). "Kate's Family Tree". UK Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 July 2019. Kate’s great-great- grandfather was Francis Martineau Lupton, a politician himself, and his first cousin was the Birmingham lord mayor Sir Thomas Martineau, a friend of Queen Victoria. Sir Thomas’s nephew was Neville Chamberlain.
11. Jamie Doward (30 March 2019). "Honours system under scrutiny after sex abuser kept title for years". The Observer. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
12. Salman, Saba. "Stephen Greenhalgh: localism hero or demolition man?". The Guardian. 7 February 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2014.