List of University of Cambridge members
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The following persons attended the University of Cambridge but did not necessarily complete a degree course there.
This selective list of alumni and members of the University has been divided into categories, but it should be noted that these categories are somewhat arbitrary, and that many of the university's alumni and members have been polymaths, in these cases an attempt has been made to put them in the category for which they were most famous.
[edit] Politics/Royalty
[edit] Kings and Queens
- Queen 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
- Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, India (Trinity) Cricketer, Statesman
- Margrethe II of Denmark (Girton)
- Muwenda Mutebi II, Kabaka of Buganda (Magdalene)
- Peter II of Yugoslavia
[edit] Princes and Princesses
- Charles, Prince of Wales (Trinity)
- Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (Jesus)
- Shaikh Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain
- Prince Ra'ad bin Zeid of Jordan (Christ's)
- Princess Rahma bint Hassan of Jordan (Trinity)
- Prince Rashid bin Hassan of Jordan (Caius)
- Princess Takamado of Japan (Girton)
- Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia (Clare)
- Prince Zeid bin Raad of Jordan (Christ's)
[edit] Lord Protector
- Oliver Cromwell (Sidney Sussex)
[edit] Presidents and Prime Ministers (international)
- Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (St Catharine's) President of India 1974-1977
- Stanley Bruce (Trinity) Prime Minister of Australia 1923-1929
- Erskine Hamilton Childers (Trinity) President of Ireland 1973-1974
- Rajiv Gandhi (Trinity) Prime Minister of India 1984-1989
- Lee Hsien Loong (Trinity) Prime Minister of Singapore 2004-
- Ba Maw First Prime Minister of Burma (Myanmar) 1937-1939; Head of State 1943-1945
- Edward Mutesa II (Magdalene) First President of Uganda 1963-1966, Kabaka of Buganda
- Khawaja Nazimuddin (Trinity Hall) Prime Minister of Pakistan 1951-1953
- Dudley Senanayake (Corpus Christi) Prime Minister of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1952–1953, 1960, 1965–1970
- John Lionel Kotelawala (Christ's) Prime Minister of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1953-1956
- Jawaharlal Nehru (Trinity) First Prime Minister of India 1947-1964
- Tunku Abdul Rahman (St Catharine's) First Prime Minister of Malaysia 1957-1970
- George Maxwell Richards (Pembroke) President of Trinidad and Tobago 2003-
- Anand Panyarachun (Trinity) Prime Minister of Thailand, 1991-1992, then again in 1992
- William Philip Schreiner (Downing) Prime Minister of the Cape Colony 1899-1902
- Manmohan Singh (St John's) Prime Minister of India 2004-
- Jan Smuts (Christ's) Prime Minister of South Africa 1919-1924,1939-1948
- William Henry Waddington (Trinity) Prime Minister of France 1879
- Lee Kuan Yew (Fitzwilliam) First Prime Minister of Singapore 1965-1990
[edit] Prime Ministers (Great Britain/United Kingdom)
- 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 1765-66, 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 (Trinity) 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
[edit] Signatories of the American Declaration of Independence
- Thomas Lynch, Jr. (Gonville and Caius)
- Arthur Middleton (St John's)
- Thomas Nelson, Jr. (Trinity)
[edit] 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)
[edit] Other political figures
- Mani Shankar Aiyar, Indian politician
- Choudhary Rahmat Ali (Emmanuel) Pakistani nationalist
- Nathaniel Bacon (Sidney Sussex) Early American rebel
- Hans Blix (Trinity Hall) UN weapons inspector, Swedish diplomat and politician
- Subhash Chandra Bose (Fitzwilliam) Indian independence leader
- Richard Austen Butler (Pembroke) British politician
- Alastair Campbell (Caius) Press Secretary and Director of Communications & Strategy under Tony Blair
- William Cecil (St John's) Chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I
- Austen Chamberlain (Trinity) British politician, Nobel Prize winner
- Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician, Speaker of the Lok Sabha
- Robert Erskine Childers (Trinity) Irish nationalist
- Charles Clarke (King's) British politician
- Kenneth Clarke (Caius) British politician
- Charles Cornwallis (Clare) British military commander (American Revolution), Governor-General of India
- Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (Trinity) Favourite of Queen Elizabeth I
- Abba Eban (Queens'/Pembroke) Israeli statesman
- Karen-Christine Friele, Norwegian gay rights activist
- Anthony Giddens Sociologist, propagator of "Third Way" social theory & political agenda, adviser to Tony Blair
- Nick Griffin (Downing) Leader of the British National Party
- Geoff Hoon British politician
- Michael Howard (Peterhouse) British politician; former leader of the Conservative Party (UK)
- Michael Ignatieff (King's) Canadian intellectual
- Norman Lamont (Fitzwilliam) British politician
- John Lehman (Caius), US conservative and former US Secretary of the Navy
- David & Arthur Li Hong Kong legislators
- Peter Lilley (Clare) British politician
- John McCallum (Queens') Canadian MP; currently the Liberal Finance Critic
- Louis Mountbatten (Christ's) Last Viceroy of India; also First Governor-General under newly-formed Republic 1947-48
- Sarojini Naidu (Girton) Indian politician and poet
- Philip Noel-Baker (King's) Diplomat, Nobel Prize winner
- David Owen (Sidney Sussex) Co-founder of the Social Democratic Party (UK)
- Matthew Parris (Clare) Broadcaster, political analyst and former British politician
- Charles Stewart Parnell (Magdalene) Leader of the Irish Nationalists
- St. John Philby (Trinity) Arabist, British spy, father of Kim Philby
- Michael Portillo (Peterhouse) British politician
- Enoch Powell (Trinity) 'Right-wing' politician
- Geoffrey Robinson (Clare) British politician
- Chris Smith (Pembroke) British politician
- Jim Wallace Scottish politician, former Deputy First Minister of Scotland
- Francis Walsingham (King's) Head of the Elizabethan Secret Service
- William Wilberforce (St John's) Slavery abolitionist
- John Winthrop (Trinity) Founder and first Governor of Massachusetts
[edit] Clergy and spiritual leaders
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[edit] Authors, playwrights, memoirists and critics
[edit] Poets
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[edit] Actors, directors, comedians and musicians
[edit] Scientists, technologists and mathematicians
See also Official list of Nobel Prize winners from Cambridge University
[edit] Astronauts
- Michael Foale (Queens'), NASA astronaut
- Nicholas Patrick (Trinity) NASA astronaut
[edit] Philosophers
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[edit] Armed forces
- Arthur Estcourt (Magdalene)
[edit] Artists, architects and art experts
- Christopher Alexander (Trinity)
- Quentin Blake (Downing)
- Anthony Caro (Christ's)
- Peter Eisenman
- Michael Kitson (King's), art historian
- Antony Gormley (Trinity)
- Richard MacCormac (Trinity)
- Graham Morrison (Jesus)
- Marc Quinn (Robinson)
- Nicholas Serota (Christ's)
[edit] Educationalists
- John Haden Badley (Trinity) Founder and first headmaster of Bedales School
- Emily Davies Founder of Girton, suffragette campaigner for women's right to university education
- Henry Dunster (Magdalene) First president of Harvard
- Nathaniel Eaton (Trinity) First schoolmaster at Harvard
- Eli Gottlieb (St. John's) Director of the Mandel Leadership Institute
- John Harvard (Emmanuel) First benefactor of Harvard
[edit] Economists
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[edit] Entrepreneurs, business leaders and philanthropists
- John Browne (St John's) Chief executive officer of BP
- Charles "Nick" Corfield Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
- Ray Dolby (Pembroke) Audio technologies inventor and founder of Dolby
- Hermann Hauser (King's College) Electronics entrepreneur
- Andy Hopper (Corpus Christi) Electronics entrepreneur, academic
- Michael Johns (Gonville & Caius) Healthcare executive, former White House speechwriter
- Raymond Kwok (Jesus) Hong Kong property billionaire
- Michael Lynch (Christ's) Software and internet entrepreneur
- Paul Mellon (Clare) American philanthropist
- Nathan Myhrvold Intellectual property entrepreneur
- Charles Rolls (Trinity) Co-founder of Rolls-Royce, the automobile and aviation company
- David Sainsbury (King's) Sainsbury's supermarket fortune heir; philanthropist
- 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 second largest advertising group
- John Sperling (King's) For-profit education entrepreneur, founder of the University of Phoenix
- Stephen B. Streater (Trinity) Electronics entrepreneur, founder of Eidos
- Kenneth Thomson (St John's) & David Thomson (Selwyn), Canada's wealthiest family, Thomson Corp. (information services)
- Tony Wilson (Jesus) Music and youth culture entrepreneur
[edit] Legal experts
- Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh (Queens') International Court of Justice judge, Jordanian diplomat
- Glenn Richard Butterton (Trinity) American Lawyer and Linguist, Washington, DC, advocate of the application of Speech Act Theory to law
- Edward Coke (Trinity) Jurist, influential on early English and American law
- Charles Falconer (Queens') British Lord Chancellor
- Rosalyn Higgins (Girton) First female International Court of Justice judge
- Karl Hudson-Phillips (Selwyn) International Criminal Court judge, Trinidad and Tobago legal advisor and politician
- Derry Irvine (Christ's) British Lord Chancellor, mentor of Tony Blair and Cherie Booth
- Lawrence Lessig (Trinity) US cyberlaw expert, founder of the Creative Commons movement, free software advocate
- Wong Yan Lung Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong
- Hisashi Owada International Court of Justice judge
- Nicholas Phillips (King's) Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
- James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger 1769-1844 Judge, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer
- Makhdoom Ali Khan (Corpus Christi) , Attorney General of Pakistan (2001-2007)
[edit] Historians
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[edit] Journalists and media personalities
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[edit] Sportsmen and women
- Harold Abrahams (Caius) Olympian sprinter, long jumper
- Mike Atherton (Downing) Cricketer
- Giles Baring (Magdalene) Cricketer
- Logie Bruce Lockhart (St John's) Rugby footballer
- Antony Roy Clark (Downing) Cricketer
- Percy de Paravicini (Trinity) Cricketer and England footballer
- Billy Fiske (Trinity Hall) Youngest US Olympic gold medallist (bobsleigh), WWII RAF pilot
- Syed Mohammad Hadi (Peterhouse) Multi-talented Indian athlete
- Gavin Hastings (Magdalene) Rugby footballer
- E. S. Kennedy Mountaineer
- George Mallory (Magdalene) Mountaineer
- Peter May (Pembroke) Cricketer
- Wavell Wakefield (Pembroke) Rugby footballer
- H. de Winton and J. C. Thring (Trinity) Formalized rules of association football (soccer)
- Yaping Deng (Jesus) Olympian table tennis player