List of University of Cambridge people
This is 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, 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.
Politics and royalty
Monarchs
- Charles Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak
- Dina al-Hussein of Jordan
- Edward VII of the United Kingdom
- George VI of the United Kingdom
- Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, India
- Letsie III of Lesotho
- Margrethe II of Denmark
- Mutesa II of Buganda, Kabaka of Buganda
- Muwenda Mutebi II, Kabaka of Buganda
- Peter II of Yugoslavia
- Sofía, Queen Consort of Spain
Royal persons
- Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia
- Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
- Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate of Ethiopia
- Charles, Prince of Wales
- Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
- Fra' Matthew Festing, Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Malta
- Prince Ra'ad bin Zeid of Iraq
- Princess Rahma bint Hassan of Jordan
- Prince Rashid bin Hassan of Jordan
- Sao Hkun Hkio, Saopha of Mongmit, 4th Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
- Shaikh Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain
- Princess Sarvath El Hassan of Jordan
- Princess Takamado of Japan
- Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia
- Prince Tunku Abdul Rahman of Kedah
- Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
- Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
- Prince William of Gloucester
- Prince William, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
- Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad of Iraq
Diplomats
Viceroys
- Clement Francis Cornwall, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
- Charles Cornwallis, Governor-General of India
- Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, 13th Governor General of Canada
- Sir Robert George Howe, Governor General of the Sudan
- David Lloyd Johnston, 28th Governor General of Canada
- Sir William Manning, Governor of Jamaica and Governor of Ceylon
- Louis Mountbatten, last Viceroy of India ; first Governor General of India
- Sarojini Naidu, first woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress and Governor of Uttar Pradesh
- Shenton Thomas, last Governor of the Straits Settlements and Governor of the Gold Coast
- Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, 14th Governor-General of Canada
- John Winthrop, founder and first Governor of Massachusetts
Ambassadors
- Hugh Elliott, UK Ambassador to Spain
- Jacqueline Perkins, UK Ambassador to Belarus
Heads of state and heads of government
- Oliver Cromwell, first Lord Protector
British Prime Ministers
- Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister 1721-1742
- Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, Prime Minister 1754-1756, 1757–1762
- Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister 1765-1766, 1782
- Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister 1768-1770
- William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister 1783-1801, 1804–1806
- Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister 1809-1812
- Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, 1812-1827
- Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister 1827-1828
- Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister 1830-1834
- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister 1834, 1835–1841
- George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister 1852-1855
- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister 1855-1858, 1859–1865
- Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister 1902-1905
- Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister 1905-1908
- Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister 1923-1924, 1924–1929, 1935–1937
Other countries
- Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, President of India 1974-1977
- Ba Maw, first Prime Minister of Burma 1937-1939; Head of State 1943-1945
- Rupiah Banda, President of Zambia 2008-2011
- Sir Francis Bell, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1925
- Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia 1923-1929
- Jerzy Buzek, Prime Minister of Poland 1997-2001
- Erskine Hamilton Childers, President of Ireland 1973-1974
- Alfred Domett, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1862-1863
- Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India 1984-1989
- Mohammad Hidayatullah, acting President of India 1969
- Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, acting Prime Minister of Pakistan 1990
- Kim Dae-jung, President of South Korea 1998-2003
- John Lionel Kotelawala, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1953-1956
- Carrie Lam, Chief Executive Elect of Hong Kong 2017--
- Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore 2004-
- Lee Kuan Yew, first Prime Minister of Singapore 1965-1990
- Edward Mutesa II, first President of Uganda 1963-1966
- Khawaja Nazimuddin, Prime Minister of Pakistan 1951-1953
- Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India 1947-1964
- Anand Panyarachun, Prime Minister of Thailand, 1991–1992, then again in 1992
- Tunku Abdul Rahman, first Prime Minister of Malaysia 1957-1970
- George Maxwell Richards, President of Trinidad and Tobago 2003-
- Samir Rifai, Prime Minister of Jordan 2009-2011
- William Philip Schreiner, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony 1899-1902
- Guy Scott, acting President of Zambia 2014
- Dudley Senanayake, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1952–1953, 1960, 1965–1970
- Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India 1992-1997
- Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh, Prime Minister of Jordan 2011-
- Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India 2004-2014
- Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa 1919-1924, 1939–1948
- Gerald Strickland, Prime Minister of Malta 1927-1932
- William Henry Waddington, Prime Minister of France 1879
Signatories of the American Declaration of Independence
- Thomas Lynch, Jr.
- Arthur Middleton
- Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Soviet spies
- Anthony Blunt
- Guy Burgess
- John Cairncross
- Donald Maclean
- Alan Nunn May
- Kim Philby
- Michael Whitney Straight
- Victor Rothschild
Other political figures
A–D
- Diane Abbott, British shadow cabinet member and Labour Party leadership contender
- Aitzaz Ahsan, Interior Minister of Pakistan
- Mani Shankar Aiyar, Indian Minister of Panchayati Raj
- Augustus Molade Akiwumi, Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana
- Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh, Jordanian Foreign Minister, Royal State Adviser on International Law
- Musa Alami, Palestinian nationalist, major contributor to the White Paper of 1939
- Choudhary Rahmat Ali, Pakistani independence leader, credited with inventing the name "Pakistan"
- Jorge Arreaza, Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs, former Vice President
- Gilberto Arias, Ambassador of Panama to the United Kingdom
- Sri Aurobindo, Member of the Indian National Congress and independence leader
- Nathaniel Bacon, early American rebel, instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676
- Stephen Barclay, Conservative MP and Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
- Joseph Baptista, founder of the Indian Home Rule Movement and Mayor of Bombay
- Johan Baverbrant, Swedish representative on the Council of Europe
- Chris Bentley, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs in Ontario
- Augustine Birrell, British Chief Secretary for Ireland
- Hans Blix, UN weapons inspector, Swedish Foreign Minister
- Richard Blumenthal, US Senator from Connecticut
- Maria Böhmer, current Minister of State in the German Chancellery
- Subhas Chandra Bose, President of the Indian National Congress and leader of the Indian National Army
- William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman, British Home Secretary
- Leon Brittan, British Home Secretary and Vice-President of the European Commission
- Annette Brooke, Liberal Democrats MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole
- Andy Burnham, British Health Secretary and Labour Party leadership contender
- Rab Butler, British Deputy Prime Minister, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament
- P. K. van der Byl, Rhodesian Foreign Minister
- Vince Cable, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Business Secretary
- Alastair Campbell, Press Secretary and Director of Communications and Strategy under Tony Blair
- Robert Carr, British Home Secretary
- Fernando María Castiella y Maíz, Spanish Foreign Minister
- William Cecil, Chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I, Secretary of State
- Austen Chamberlain, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of State for India, Leader of the Conservative Party, Foreign Secretary and Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Somnath Chatterjee, Speaker of the Lok Sabha in the Indian Government
- Erskine Childers, Irish independence leader, Director of Publicity for the First Irish Parliament
- Charles Clarke, British Home Secretary and Education Secretary
- Kenneth Clarke, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary, Education Secretary and Health Secretary
- Thomas Clarkson, slavery abolitionist
- Nick Clegg, Leader of the British Liberal Democrats and Deputy Prime Minister
- Paul Clement, Solicitor General of the United States
- Jo Cox, Member of Parliament for the Batley and Spen constituency from May 2015 until her murder in June 2016
- Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, British Secretary of State for India, Ambassador to France and Secretary of State for War
- Hugh Dalton, Chairman of the Labour Party and British Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Sir C. D. Deshmukh, Finance Minister in the Indian Government
- Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, favourite of and adviser to Queen Elizabeth I, Earl Marshal
- Gamini Dissanayake, Sri Lankan Leader of the Opposition
- Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, British Secretary of State for India
E–M
- Abba Eban, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, Education Minister and Foreign Minister
- James Chuter Ede, British Home Secretary
- Steven Engel, United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel under the Trump Administration
- Femi Fani-Kayode, Nigerian Minister of Aviation and Special Assistant to the President
- Remi Fani-Kayode, Nigerian Minister for Local Government Affairs
- Kate Forbes, Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Finance
- Peter Fragiskatos Canadian MP
- Karen-Christine Friele, Norwegian gay rights activist, leader of Forbundet av 1948
- Rahul Gandhi, General Secretary of the Indian National Congress
- Michael Gau, Vice Chairman of Aviation Safety Council of the Republic of China
- Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet, British Home Secretary
- Chris Grayling, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Transport Minister
- Nick Griffin, Leader of the British National Party
- Matt Hancock, British Health Secretary
- William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel, the last British Secretary of State for India and the last Governor-General of Ghana
- William Harcourt, British Home Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the Opposition
- John Healey, British MP
- Francis Higginson, first Minister of Salem, Massachusetts
- Geoff Hoon, British Secretary of State for Defence and Secretary of State for Transport
- Michael Howard, Leader of the Conservative Party, British Home Secretary
- Geoffrey Howe, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary, and Leader of the House of Commons and Deputy Prime Minister
- Douglas Hurd, British Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary
- Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
- Vane Ivanović, co-founder of the European Movement, pro-Yugoslavia activist
- Vladeta Janković, co-founder and Deputy President of Democratic Party of Serbia, Yugoslav Ambassador to the United Kingdom
- Vuk Jeremić, Foreign Minister in the Government of Serbia
- Michael Johnson, Member of the Australian House of Representatives
- Suematsu Kenchō, Japanese Home Minister and Minister of Communication
- Norman Lamont, British Chancellor of the Exchequer
- John Lehman, US Secretary of the Navy
- Brian Lenihan Jnr, Irish Justice Minister and Finance Minister
- Alan Leong, Leader of the Civic Party of Hong Kong
- Arthur Li, Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong; Hong Kong Secretary for Education and Manpower
- Sir David Li, Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and former member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
- David Lidington, Conservative MP and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
- Peter Lilley, British Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and Secretary of State for Social Security
- Gwilym Lloyd George, British Home Secretary and younger son of David Lloyd George
- Selwyn Lloyd, British Foreign Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Speaker of the House of Commons
- Roy MacLaren, Canadian Minister of National Revenue and Minister of International Trade
- Iain Macleod, British Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Lord Mark Malloch Brown, Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and previously United Nations Deputy Secretary-General
- Inagaki Manjirō, Japan's first deputy Minister Resident to the Kingdom of Siam on March 31, 1897; appointed Minister Plenipotentiary on 19 November 1899; envoy extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in 1903; he continued in that role until July 1907 when he was transferred to Madrid, Spain, where he died of illness in 1908
- Allama Mashriqi, founder of the Khaksar movement
- Francis Maude,
- John McCallum, Canadian Minister of National Defence and Minister of National Revenue
- Reginald McKenna, British Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer
- David Mellor, British Conservative MP and Chief Secretary to the Treasury
- Andrew Mitchell, British Secretary of State for International Development
- Edwin Montagu, British Secretary of State for India
- Paula Marcela Moreno Zapata, Minister of Culture, Colombia; Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow, MIT
- Andrew Murrison, Conservative Party MP for Westbury and former Minister of State for Northern Ireland
N–Z
- Marty Natalegawa, Foreign Minister in the Indonesian Government
- Philip Noel-Baker, British Commonwealth Secretary, Chair of the Labour Party and Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Simeon Nyachae, Kenyan presidential candidate
- David Owen, co-founder and leader of the Social Democratic Party, British Foreign Secretary
- Charles Stewart Parnell, Leader of the Irish Nationalist Party
- Matthew Parris, British political analyst, Member of Parliament for West Derbyshire
- Sir Emyr Jones Parry, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations and NATO
- Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, British Leader of the Opposition and Secretary of State for India and Burma
- Michael Portillo, British Defence Secretary and Employment Secretary
- Enoch Powell, British Minister of Health and Financial Secretary to the Treasury
- Francis Pym, British Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons
- Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Foreign Minister in the Pakistani Government
- Dominic Raab, British Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union and Foreign Secretary
- Sir Benegal Rama Rau, Indian Ambassador to Japan and the United States
- Geoffrey Robinson, Paymaster General in the British Government
- Gábor Scheiring, economist and Member of the Hungarian National Assembly
- Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore's Education Minister and Finance Minister
- Kamalesh Sharma, Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations
- Peter Shore, Secretary of State for Trade and Secretary of State for the Environment
- Shahid Aziz Siddiqi, Federal Secretary in the Government of Pakistan
- Arun Singh, Minister of State for Defence in the Government of India
- Chris Smith, British Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
- Gavin Strang, British Transport Minister
- Sir John Stuttard, Lord Mayor of London 2006/7
- Szeming Sze, Chinese representative at the foundation of the United Nations and co-founder of the World Health Organization
- Linda Taylor, Executive Director of the United Nations Office of Administration of Justice
- Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, Secretary of State for Scotland and Ireland
- Christopher Tugendhat, Vice-President of the European Commission
- Andrew Turnbull, Baron Turnbull, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service
- Tin Tut, Minister of Finance in the Government of Myanmar
- Tom Udall, US Senator from New Mexico
- Jim Wallace, Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats and Deputy First Minister of Scotland
- Francis Walsingham, Principal Secretary to Elizabeth I of England, "Spymaster"
- William Whitelaw, British Home Secretary and Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party
- William Wilberforce, slavery abolitionist
- Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, advocate of Native Americans
Clergy and spiritual leaders
- Sri Aurobindo
- Richard Bauckham
- Edward White Benson
- William Brewster
- Arthur Buxton
- Donald Coggan
- Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Thomas Cranmer
- Timothy Dudley-Smith
- Saint John Fisher
- Sir James George Frazer
- Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Nicky Gumbel
- Anne Hollinghurst, Bishop of Aston
- Fenton John Anthony Hort
- George Joye
- Nicky Lee
- Dick Lucas
- J. B. Lightfoot
- F. D. Maurice
- Handley Moule, Bishop of Durham
- Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester
- Mike Ovey
- Arthur Peacocke, Templeton Prize winner
- William Perkins, Puritan theologian
- Sogyal Rinpoche
- Jonathan Sacks
- Solomon Schechter
- John Sentamu
- David Sheppard, Bishop of Liverpool
- Shimun XXI Eshai
- William Robertson Smith
- John Stott
- Eckhart Tolle
- William Tyndale
- Terry Waite
- Brooke Foss Westcott
- Philip William Wheeldon, Bishop of Whitby and Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman
- William Whewell
- Archbishop John Whitgift
- Roger Williams
- Richard Williamson
Archbishops of Canterbury
- Thomas Langton, 1501-1501
- Thomas Cranmer, 1533-1555
- Matthew Parker, 1559-1575
- Edmund Grindal, 1576-1583
- John Whitgift, 1583-1604
- Richard Bancroft, 1604-1610
- William Sancroft, 1677-1690
- John Tillotson, 1691-1694
- Thomas Tenison, 1696-1715
- Thomas Herring, 1747-1757
- Matthew Hutton, 1757-1758
- Frederick Cornwallis, 1768-1783
- Charles Manners-Sutton, 1805-1828
- John Bird Sumner, 1848-1862
- Edward White Benson, 1883-1896
- Michael Ramsey, 1961-1974
- Donald Coggan, 1974-1980
- Robert Runcie, 1980-1991
- Rowan Williams, 2002-2012
- Justin Welby, 2013-
Literature
Fiction writers
A–G
- Peter Ackroyd
- Douglas Adams
- Sir Kingsley Amis, Booker Prize winner
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Martin Armstrong
- John Bale
- J. G. Ballard
- Catherine Banner
- David Benedictus
- Gregory Benford
- Alan Bennett
- Sir Walter Besant
- E. R. Braithwaite
- Howard Brenton
- Anita Brookner, Booker Prize winner
- F. C. Burnand
- Samuel Butler
- Jez Butterworth
- A. S. Byatt, Booker Prize winner
- John Byrom
- Robert Chartham
- Erskine Childers
- Charles Churchill
- Jonathan Coe
- William Cooper
- Michael Crichton
- Martin Crimp
- Richard Cumberland
- Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Seamus Deane
- Warwick Deeping
- Anita Desai
- Colin Dexter
- Terrance Dicks
- Emma Donoghue
- Dame Margaret Drabble
- Patricia Duncker
- Sebastian Faulks
- Julian Fellowes
- Ronald Firbank
- Tibor Fischer
- John Fletcher
- Giles Foden
- E. M. Forster
- Michael Frayn
- William Gerhardie
- David Gibbins
- Simon Gray
- Robert Greene
- Susanna Gregory
H–M
- Lee Hall
- Sir David Hare
- Joanne Harris
- Robert Harris
- Philip Hensher
- G. A. Henty
- Wendy Holden
- Nick Hornby
- Christopher Isherwood
- Howard Jacobson, Booker Prize winner
- M. R. James
- Elizabeth Jenkins
- Peter Jukes
- Charles Kingsley
- Nathaniel Lee
- Rosamond Lehmann
- C. S. Lewis
- Malcolm Lowry
- Gavin Lyall
- Christopher Marlowe
- Hisham Matar
- A. D. Miller
- A. A. Milne
- Nicholas Monsarrat
- Richard K. Morgan
- Dame Iris Murdoch, Booker Prize winner
- Leo Myers
N–Z
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Thomas Norton
- Brian O'Doherty
- Maggie O'Farrell
- Joseph O'Neill
- Lawrence Osborne
- Helen Oyeyemi
- Tim Parks
- Philippa Pearce
- Sir Max Pemberton
- Samuel Pepys
- Marie Phillips
- Stephen Poliakoff
- John Cowper Powys
- J. B. Priestley
- Frederic Raphael, Academy Award winner
- Julian Rathbone
- Simon Raven
- Piers Paul Read
- Amber Reeves
- Forrest Reid
- Sir Salman Rushdie, Booker Prize winner
- Edward Rutherfurd
- Thomas Shadwell
- Anthony Shaffer
- Sir Peter Shaffer, Academy Award winner
- Tom Sharpe
- James Shirley
- Indra Sinha
- Ali Smith
- Zadie Smith
- C. P. Snow
- Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize winner
- George Steiner
- Laurence Sterne
- Nick Stone
- William Sutcliffe
- Graham Swift, Booker Prize winner
- Netta Syrett
- Tom Taylor
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Marcel Theroux
- Matt Thorne
- Frank Tuohy
- Alison Uttley
- Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize winner
- Sir Hugh Walpole
- Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Patrick White, Nobel Prize winner
- T. H. White
- Raymond Williams
- James Wood
- Jin Yong
Non-fiction writers
A–Z
- Nigel Cumberland
Poets
A–M
- William Alabaster
- Sri Aurobindo
- Harivanshrai Bachchan
- John Bale
- Maurice Baring
- A. C. Benson
- John Berryman
- Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize winner
- Rupert Brooke
- John Byrom
- Lord Byron
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- F. M. Cornford
- John Cornford
- Abraham Cowley
- George Crabbe
- Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate
- John Donne
- Charles Montagu Doughty
- John Dryden, Poet Laureate
- Richard Eberhart
- D. J. Enright
- Laurence Eusden, Poet Laureate
- Michael Field
- Edward FitzGerald
- Giles Fletcher
- George Gascoigne
- Alice Goodman
- Sir Edmund Gosse
- Thomas Gray
- Thom Gunn
- Arthur Hallam
- Peter Hausted
- Hamish Henderson
- George Herbert
- Robert Herrick
- Geoffrey Hill
- Philip Hobsbaum
- David Holbrook
- John Holloway
- A. E. Housman
- Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate
- Sir Allama Iqbal
- Lawrence Joseph
- Arthur Henry King
- John Lehmann
- Malcolm Lowry
- Christopher Marlowe
- Andrew Marvell
- Thomas May
- John Milton
- Wendy Mulford
- Frederic William Henry Myers
N–Z
- Victor Benjamin Neuburg
- Sylvia Plath, Pulitzer Prize winner
- J. H. Prynne
- Kathleen Raine
- Thomas Randolph
- Tom Raworth
- Peter Redgrove
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Thomas Shadwell, Poet Laureate
- John Skelton, Poet Laureate
- Christopher Smart
- Edmund Spenser, Poet Laureate
- Sir John Suckling
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate
- Derick Thomson
- William Wentworth
- William Whitehead, Poet Laureate
- John Wilkinson
- William Wordsworth, Poet Laureate
- Xu Zhimo
Literary scholars
- M. H. Abrams
- Peter Ackroyd
- Noel Annan
- Jonathan Bate
- Mary Beard
- Clive Bell
- Stanley Bennett
- Joan Bennett
- Richard Bentley
- Harold Bloom
- Alain de Botton
- Henry Bradshaw
- Edward G. Browne
- Nick Clarke
- A. B. Cook
- F. M. Cornford
- Jonathan Culler
- Donald Davie
- Simon Digby
- Patrick Dixon
- Denis Donoghue
- Gerald Duckworth
- Terry Eagleton
- Sir William Empson
- Charles le Gai Eaton
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Robert Gittings
- Sir Edmund Gosse
- Simon Gray
- Stephen Greenblatt
- Sir Walter Wilson Greg
- Leslie Halliwell
- Jane Ellen Harrison
- Samuel Hartlib
- Hugh Haughton
- John Hersey, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Theo Hobson
- Vyvyan Holland
- Graham Hough
- Christopher Isherwood
- Peter Jukes
- Sir Frank Kermode
- F. R. Leavis
- Q. D. Leavis
- F. L. Lucas
- Colin MacCabe
- Sir Desmond MacCarthy
- Ronald Brunlees McKerrow
- Marshall McLuhan
- Thomas Merton
- Karl Miller
- John Mullan
- Abioseh Nicol
- C. K. Ogden
- Richard Poirier
- Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
- Simon Raven
- Forrest Reid
- I. A. Richards
- Jo Riley
- Susan Sellers
- Walter William Skeat
- J. B. Steane
- George Steiner
- Sir Leslie Stephen
- Lytton Strachey
- Tony Tanner
- Claire Tomalin
- R. C. Trevelyan
- Brian Vickers
- Arthur Waley
- Raymond Williams
- J. Dover Wilson
- James Wood
- Leonard Woolf
Travel writers
- Maurice Baring
- Claudius Buchanan
- Robert Chartham
- William Dalrymple
- Maurizio Giuliano
- Joanna Kavenna
- Alexander William Kinglake
- Robert Macfarlane
- Fynes Moryson
- Matthew Parris
- Gerald Sparrow
- Terry Waite
- Ted Walker
- Samantha Weinberg
The arts
Actors, directors and comedians
A–G
- Khalid Abdalla
- Clive Anderson
- Michael Apted, Grammy Award winner
- David Armand
- Alexander Armstrong, BAFTA joint winner
- Lord Antony Armstrong-Jones, Emmy Award winner
- Lord Richard Attenborough, Academy Award winner
- Richard Ayoade
- James Bachman
- David Baddiel
- Jamie Bamber
- Tom Basden
- Simon Russell Beale
- Simon Bird, BAFTA winner
- James Bloor
- Hugh Bonneville
- Eleanor Bron
- Tim Brooke-Taylor
- Jimmy Carr
- Graham Chapman
- John Cleese, Emmy Award winner
- Sacha Baron Cohen, comedian
- Lily Cole
- Peter Cook, Grammy Award winner
- Trevor Dann
- Hugh Dennis
- Declan Donnellan
- Robin Ellis
- Mark Evans
- Sir Richard Eyre
- Julian Fellowes, Academy Award winner
- Trent Ford
- Stephen Frears
- Robin French
- Stephen Fry
- Graeme Garden
- Genevieve Gaunt
- Mel Giedroyc
- Stefan Golaszewski
- Paul Greengrass
H–M
- Sir Peter Hall
- Rebecca Hall
- Andy Hamilton
- Phil Hammond
- Nick Hancock
- Terrence Hardiman
- Naomie Harris
- Tony Hendra
- Kit Hesketh-Harvey
- Tom Hiddleston, Golden Globe Award winner
- Freddie Highmore
- Christopher Hogwood
- Tom Hollander
- Matthew Holness
- The Hollow Men
- Sir Nicholas Hytner
- Eric Idle
- Sir Derek Jacobi, Emmy Award winner
- Humphrey Jennings
- Griff Rhys Jones
- Ellie Kendrick
- Paul King
- Matt Kirshen
- Hugh Laurie, Golden Globe Award winner
- John Lloyd
- Alice Lowe
- John Madden
- Richard Maher
- Stephen Mangan
- Miriam Margolyes
- James Mason
- Sir Ian McKellen
- Sam Mendes, Academy Award winner
- Roger Michell
- Lord Bernard Miles
- Miles Millar
- Ben Miller, BAFTA joint winner
- Jonathan Miller
- David Mitchell, BAFTA joint winner
- Nick Mohammed
- Lucy Montgomery
- Hattie Morahan
- Neil Mullarkey
- Richard Murdoch
- Hannah Murray
N–Z
- Henry Naylor
- Mike Newell
- Robert Newman
- Thandie Newton
- James Norton
- Sir Trevor Nunn
- Bill Oddie
- John Oliver, Emmy Award winner
- Barunka O'Shaughnessy
- Iain Overton
- Tony Palmer, Emmy Award winner
- Andy Parsons, comedian
- Alice Patten
- Sue Perkins
- Frederic Raphael, Academy Award winner
- Jan Ravens, first female president of Cambridge University Footlights Club
- Corin Redgrave
- Sir Michael Redgrave
- Eddie Redmayne, Academy Award winner
- Karel Reisz
- Blake Ritson
- Luke Roberts, comedian
- Sir George Robey
- Anthony Shaffer
- Cecil Sharp
- Don Siegel, Academy Award winner
- Tony Slattery
- Iain Softley
- Dan Stevens
- Tim Sullivan
- Jonny Sweet
- Clive Swift
- David Swift
- Tilda Swinton, Academy Award winner
- Joe Thomas
- Emma Thompson, Academy Award winner
- Sandi Toksvig
- Horace de Vere Cole
- Richard Vranch
- Holly Walsh
- Rick Warden
- Mark Watson
- Robert Webb, BAFTA joint winner
- Rachel Weisz, Academy Award winner
- Chris Weitz
- Olivia Williams
- Michael Winner
- Lloyd Woolf
- Basil Wright
- Terence Young
Architects
- Christopher Alexander
- Sir Arthur Blomfield
- Peter Boston
- W. D. Caroe
- Sir Hugh Casson
- Basil Champneys
- Edward Cullinan
- Peter Eisenman
- Ralph Erskine
- James Essex
- Spencer de Grey
- Lord Thomas de Grey
- Judith Ledeboer
- Sir Leslie Martin
- Rod I. McAllister
- Graham Morrison
- Frank Newby
- Christopher Nicholson
- Jadwiga Piłsudska
- Cedric Price
- Edward Schroeder Prior
- Sir Charles Herbert Reilly
- Ian Ritchie
- Deborah Saunt
- Harold Tomlinson
- William Wilkins
- Sir Clough Williams-Ellis
- Sir Colin St John Wilson
- Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt
- Ken Yeang
Artists
- Lord Antony Armstrong-Jones, portrait photographer
- Sir Cecil Beaton, fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, style icon, interior designer and Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer
- Quentin Blake, cartoonist, illustrator and children's author, well known for his collaborations with writer Roald Dahl
- Sir Roy Yorke Calne, contemporary painter and Group 90 member
- Sir Anthony Caro, abstract sculptor, famed for the use of 'found' industrial objects
- Ralph Chubb, late Romantic painter and printer
- Roger Fry, modernist painter and Bloomsbury Group member
- Antony Gormley, sculptor, best known for the Angel of the North
- Jon Harris, painter, illustrator, and calligrapher, best known for his drawings of Cambridge
- Wuon-Gean Ho, contemporary artist and printmaker
- Benjamin Hope, painter, noted for plein air oil paintings of London
- Luke Piper, contemporary landscape painter
- Louisa Mak, Miss Hong Kong 2015
- Marc Quinn, contemporary sculptor, member of Young British Artists, best known for sculptures Self, Alison Lapper Pregnant and Siren
- Mick Rock, pop culture photographer, renowned for iconic images of major rock bands
- Julian Trevelyan, surrealist painter and modern printmaker
- Caroline Calloway writer
Art critics, museum directors, and historians of art
- Clive Bell, Formalist art critic, Bloomsbury Group member
- Anita Brookner, art historian, Reader at the Courtauld Institute of Art and first female Slade Professor of Fine Art
- Sir Sydney Cockerell, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and close friend of John Ruskin
- William George Constable, Curator of the Boston Museum of Fine Art and Assistant Director of the National Gallery
- Shalini Ganendra, fine arts consultant and gallerist, judge on various art award panels
- Michael Jaffé, art historian, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and Proprietor of Clifton Maybank House
- Michael Kitson, art historian, Claude Lorrain expert, professor at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Courtauld Institute of Art
- Joseph Koerner, art historian, German art expert, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard and lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art
- Lothar Ledderose, Professor of the History of Art of Eastern Asia at the University of Heidelberg, Mellon Lecturer at the National Gallery of Art
- Timothy Potts, Director of the Kimbell Art Museum, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Fitzwilliam Museum
- Duncan Robinson, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and Chairman of the Henry Moore Foundation
- Simon Schama, art historian and critic, professor at Columbia University, award-winning author and documentary director
- Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of the Whitechapel Gallery and The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, chairman of the Turner Prize jury
- Sir Charles Waldstein, Director of the American School of Classical Studies, the Archaeological Institute of America and the Fitzwilliam Museum
- Lord Horatio Walpole, art historian and Proprietor of Strawberry Hill
- Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt, art historian, Secretary of the Great Exhibition and the first Slade Professor of Fine Art
Musicians
A–G
- Thomas Adès
- Julian Anderson
- Malcolm Archer
- Sir Richard Armstrong
- David Atherton
- Pete Atkin
- Martin Baker
- Stephen Barlow
- George Benjamin
- Sir William Sterndale Bennett
- Sir Arthur Bliss
- Leslie Bricusse, Academy and Grammy Award winner
- Herbert De Pinna
- William Denis Browne
- Humphrey Burton, Emmy Award winner
- Clemency Burton-Hill
- John Butt
- Andrew Carwood
- Stephen Cleobury
- Nicholas Cook
- Arnold Cooke
- Benjamin Cooke
- Harold Darke
- Thurston Dart
- Sir Andrew Davis
- Sir Colin Davis, Grammy Award winner
- John Deathridge
- E. J. Dent
- Delia Derbyshire
- Nick Drake
- Richard Egarr
- Sir Mark Elder
- Robert Fayrfax
- Simon H. Fell
- Matthew Fisher
- Fred Frith
- Andrew Gant
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Grammy Award winner
- Noel Gay
- Orlando Gibbons
- Armstrong Gibbs
- James Gilchrist
- Charlie Gillett
- Sir William Glock
- Alexander Goehr
- Rachel Gough
- Alan Gray
- John Greaves
- Maurice Greene
- Colin Greenwood, Grammy Award winner
- Douglas Guest
- George Guest
H–M
- Patrick Hadley
- Charles Hart
- Jonathan Harvey
- Richard Hickox, Grammy Award winner
- Tim Hodgkinson
- Christopher Hogwood
- Robin Holloway
- Herbert Howells
- Eric Idle, Grammy Award winner
- Brian Kay, Grammy Award winner
- Simon Keenlyside
- Jonathon King
- Robert King
- Robert Kirby
- Markus Kuhn
- Stephen Layton
- Sir Philip Ledger
- Walter Leigh
- Raymond Leppard
- Sir George Alexander Macfarren
- Joanna MacGregor
- Andrew Manze
- Richard Marlow
- Andrew Marriner
- Rory McEwen
- Hubert Stanley Middleton
- Silvina Milstein
- David Munrow, Grammy Award winner
N–Z
- John Noble
- Sir Roger Norrington, Grammy Award winner
- Boris Ord
- Tarik O'Regan
- Robin Orr
- Martin Outram
- Christopher Page
- Christopher Palmer
- Roger Parker
- David Parry
- Geoffrey Paterson
- Ernst Pauer
- John Potter
- Andrew Powell
- Clement Power
- Simon Preston
- Robert Ramsey
- William Henry Reed
- Kimberley Rew
- Alan Ridout
- Cyril Rootham
- John Rutter
- Rina Sawayama
- Matthew Schellhorn
- John Scott
- Geoffrey Shaw
- David Skinner
- Sir Arthur Somervell
- Tim Souster
- Roger Smalley
- John Spiers
- Nicholas Staggins
- Simon Standage
- Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
- Bernard Stevens
- Richard Stilgoe
- Mark Stone
- Jeffrey Tate, conductor
- Art Themen
- Christopher Tye
- Roger Vignoles
- Thomas Attwood Walmisley
- Jeremy Warmsley
- Judith Weir
- Eric Whitacre
- John Clarke Whitfield
- Sir David Willcocks, Grammy Award winner
- Jonathan Willcocks
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Sir Steuart Wilson
- Tony Wilson
- Charles Wood
Groups
- Alamire
- Cambridge Buskers
- Cambridge Singers
- Cantabile
- The Cardinall's Musick
- Clean Bandit, Grammy Award winners
- Endellion Quartet
- The Fitzwilliam Quartet, Grammy Award winners
- Henry Cow
- Hot Chip
- Katrina and the Waves, Eurovision Song Contest winners
- The King's Consort
- The King's Singers, Grammy Award winners
- Kit and The Widow
- Monteverdi Choir
- Retrospect Ensemble
- The Soft Boys
- Spiers and Boden
- Sports Team
- Stile Antico, Grammy Award winners
- Trinity Baroque
Academic disciplines
Scientists, technologists and mathematicians
A–C
- Rediet Abebe, mathematician and computer scientist
- John Couch Adams, mathematician and astronomer
- Lord Adrian, Nobel Prize winner, physiologist
- Sir George Airy
- Pat Ambler, roboticist
- Philip Warren Anderson, Nobel Prize winner, physicist
- Ross J. Anderson, computer scientist
- Sir Edward Appleton, Nobel Prize winner, physicist
- Francis Aston, Nobel Prize winner, physicist
- Sir Michael Atiyah, Fields Medal and Abel Prize winner
- Charles Babbage, mathematician
- Alan Baker, Fields Medal winner, mathematician
- H. F. Baker
- Charles Barkla, Nobel Prize winner, physicist
- Horace Barlow
- Simon Baron-Cohen, psychologist
- Isaac Barrow
- John Barrow, Templeton Prize winner, mathematician
- Tristan Bekinschtein, neuroscientist.
- William Noel Benson, geologist
- John Desmond Bernal
- Elizabeth Blackburn, Nobel Prize winner
- Patrick Blackett, Nobel Prize winner, physicist
- Sarah Bohndiek, physicist
- Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize winner, physicist
- Béla Bollobás
- Enrico Bombieri, Fields Medal winner, mathematician
- Sir Hermann Bondi, Mathematician and cosmologist
- Richard Borcherds, Fields Medal winner, mathematician
- Max Born, Nobel Prize winner
- Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose
- Sir Lawrence Bragg, Nobel Prize winner
- Sir William Henry Bragg, Nobel Prize winner
- Sydney Brenner, Nobel Prize winner
- Alec Broers
- Jacob Bronowski
- Michael Burrows, inventor of the first internet search machine, Alta Vista
- Sir Roy Yorke Calne
- Roger Carpenter
- Henry Cavendish
- Arthur Cayley
- Sir James Chadwick, Nobel Prize winner
- Ernst Chain, Nobel Prize winner
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Prize winner
- John Coates
- Sir John Cockcroft, Nobel Prize winner
- Sir Christopher Cockerell
- Joseph Comerford
- Arthur Holly Compton, Nobel Prize winner
- John Horton Conway
- Allan Cormack, Nobel Prize winner
- Sir Alan Cottrell, Chief Scientific Adviser
- Francis Crick, Nobel Prize winner
- David Crighton
D–G
- Henry Dale, Nobel Prize winner
- Charles Darwin, naturalist
- Sir Charles Galton Darwin
- Erasmus Darwin
- Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin
- Sir George Darwin
- Harold Davenport
- Ashika David
- John Dee
- Duncan R. Derry, Logan Medal winner, economic geologist
- Sir James Dewar
- Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Paul Dirac, Nobel Prize winner
- Simon Donaldson, Fields Medal winner
- Freeman Dyson, Templeton Prize winner
- Sir Arthur Eddington
- Robert Edwards, Nobel Prize winner
- Sam Edwards
- Sir Martin Evans, biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- Thomas Campbell Eyton, naturalist
- Ronald Fisher
- John Flamsteed
- Howard Florey, Nobel Prize winner
- Dian Fossey
- Sir Michael Foster
- Sir Ralph Fowler
- William Fowler, Nobel Prize winner
- Rosalind Franklin
- Sir Richard Friend
- Sir Francis Galton
- Mike Gascoyne, chief technical officer of the Caterham F1 Formula One team
- Gary Gibbons
- Walter Gilbert, Nobel Prize winner
- William Gilbert
- Sir Harold Gillies
- Peter Goddard
- Thomas Gold
- Jane Goodall
- Timothy Gowers, Fields Medal winner
- George Green
- Michael Green
- Paul Greengard, Nobel Prize winner
- Aubrey de Grey
- Richard Kenneth Guy, British mathematician
H–M
- J. B. S. Haldane
- Nicholas Harberd, Fellow of the Royal Society
- Gaylord Harnwell
- G. H. Hardy, discovered Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Douglas Hartree
- H. W. Harvey, marine biologist
- William Harvey
- Stephen Hawking
- Roger Heath-Brown
- William Heberden
- Richard Henderson, Nobel Prize winner
- Sir John Herschel
- Antony Hewish, Nobel Prize winner
- A. V. Hill, Nobel Prize winner
- Dorothy Hill
- Christopher Hinton
- WVD Hodge
- Alan Hodgkin, Nobel Prize winner
- Dorothy Hodgkin, Nobel Prize winner
- Sir Frederick Hopkins, Nobel Prize winner
- Sir Fred Hoyle
- Ieuan Hughes, Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics
- Sir Tim Hunt, Nobel Prize winner
- Sir Andrew Huxley, Nobel Prize winner
- Edward A. Irving, Logan Medal winner
- James Jeans
- Karen Spärck Jones
- Brian Josephson, Nobel Prize winner
- Pyotr Kapitsa, Nobel Prize winner
- Kay-Tee Khaw, Professor of Clinical Gerontology
- Stan Kelly-Bootle
- Sir John Kendrew, Nobel Prize winner
- Sir Geoffrey Keynes
- Sir David King, Chief Scientific Adviser
- Sir Aaron Klug, Nobel Prize winner
- Georges J.F. Kohler, Nobel Prize winner
- Sir Hans Krebs, Nobel Prize winner
- Horace Lamb
- Joseph Larmor
- David Lary
- Imre Leader
- Louis Leakey
- Georges Lemaître
- John Lennard-Jones
- Geraint F. Lewis, astrophysicist
- Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham
- James Lighthill
- John Edensor Littlewood
- Peter Littlewood
- Alan MacDiarmid, Nobel Prize winner
- Sir David MacKay, Chief Scientific Adviser to DECC
- Thomas Henry Manning
- Elizabeth Nesta Marks
- Archer Martin, Nobel Prize winner
- Keith Martin
- Peter Mathieson, Vice-Chancellor of University of Hong Kong
- Duncan Maskell, biochemist and Senior Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Chief Scientific Adviser
- César Milstein, Nobel Prize winner
- Peter Mitchell, Nobel Prize winner
- John Keith Moffat, Guggenheim Fellow, biologist
- Keith Moffatt
- Augustus de Morgan
- Simon Conway Morris
- Nevill Mott, Nobel Prize winner
N–R
- Roger Needham
- Michael Neuberger
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Sir Robin Nicholson, Chief Scientific Adviser
- Ronald Norrish, Nobel Prize winner
- Lawrence Ogilvie, plant pathologist, entomologist, mycologist
- J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project
- Jeremiah Ostriker
- William Oughtred, inventor of the slide rule and the "×" symbol for multiplication
- Sir Charles Algernon Parsons
- George Peacock
- Karl Pearson
- Sir Roger Penrose
- Max Perutz, Nobel Prize winner
- Sir Brian Pippard
- John Polkinghorne, Templeton Prize winner
- Sir John Pople, Nobel Prize winner
- George Porter, Nobel Prize winner
- Rodney Porter, Nobel Prize winner
- Cecil Powell, Nobel Prize winner
- Reginald Punnett
- Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Frank P. Ramsey, Ramsey theory, Decision theory
- Norman F. Ramsey, Nobel Prize winner
- Sir John Randall
- John Ray
- Lord Rayleigh, Nobel Prize winner
- Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal
- Osborne Reynolds
- Owen Richardson, Nobel Prize winner
- W. H. R. Rivers
- Steven Rose
- Klaus Roth, Fields Medal winner
- Edward Routh
- Ernest Rutherford, Nobel Prize winner
- Christopher Rudd, immunologist
- Martin Ryle, Nobel Prize winner
S–Z
- Barbara Sahakian, professor of Clinical Neuropsychology
- Umar Saif, computer science
- Abdus Salam, Nobel Prize winner
- Frederick Sanger, winner of two Nobel Prizes
- Vikram Sarabhai
- Nicholas Saunderson
- Richard R. Schrock, Nobel Prize winner
- Dennis William Sciama, physicist
- Sir Nicholas Shackleton
- Rupert Sheldrake
- Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Nobel Prize winner
- Simon Singh
- Herchel Smith
- John Maynard Smith
- C. P. Snow
- Ian Stewart, mathematician
- George Gabriel Stokes
- Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++
- John Sulston, Nobel Prize winner
- M. S. Swaminathan, World Food Prize winner
- James Joseph Sylvester
- Richard Synge, Nobel Prize winner
- Albert Szent-Györgyi, Nobel Prize winner
- Peter Guthrie Tait
- Brook Taylor
- Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
- Chris D. Thomas, FRS
- John Griggs Thompson, Fields Medal winner
- Sir George Paget Thomson, Nobel Prize winner
- J. J. Thomson, Nobel Prize winner
- William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
- Alexander Todd, Nobel Prize winner
- Matthew H. Todd, chemist
- Chai Keong Toh
- Roger Y. Tsien, Nobel Prize winner
- Alan Turing
- Neil Turok, mathematician
- William Tutte
- Stephen Tweedie, software developer
- Srinivasan Varadarajan, chemist and Padma Bhushan awardee
- John Venn
- Jemma Wadham, glacial biogeochemist, Antarctic researcher
- Sir John E. Walker, Nobel Prize winner
- John Wallis
- Ernest Walton, Nobel Prize winner
- James D. Watson, Nobel Prize winner
- Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize winner
- David Wheeler
- A.N. Whitehead
- E.T. Whittaker
- Sir Frank Whittle
- Sir Andrew Wiles
- Sir Maurice Wilkes, Turing Award winner
- Maurice Wilkins, Nobel Prize winner
- Sir Ian Wilmut
- C. T. R. Wilson, Nobel Prize winner
- Edward Adrian Wilson
- J. Tuzo Wilson
- Sophie Wilson, computer scientist and software engineer, designed the Acorn Micro-Computer
- Sir Greg Winter, Nobel Prize winner
- Ian H. Witten, mathematics, Hector Memorial Medal, IFIP Namur Award for Greenstone
- William Hyde Wollaston, Copley Medal winner
- Thomas Young
- Christopher Zeeman, mathematician
Astronauts
- Michael Foale, NASA astronaut
- Nicholas Patrick, NASA astronaut
- David Saint-Jacques, Canadian Space Agency astronaut
- Jennifer Sidey, Canadian Space Agency astronaut
Philosophers
A–M
- G. E. M. Anscombe
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Sri Aurobindo
- Sir Francis Bacon
- Cristina Bicchieri
- Simon Blackburn
- Alain de Botton
- R. B. Braithwaite
- C. D. Broad
- Myles Burnyeat
- Jeremy Butterfield
- Gary Chartier
- Samuel Clarke
- Stephen R. L. Clark
- William Kingdon Clifford
- Tim Crane
- Aleister Crowley
- Ralph Cudworth
- Richard Cumberland
- Don Cupitt
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Paul Feyerabend
- Peter Geach
- Raymond Geuss
- Mary Louise Gill
- Lydia Goehr
- Susan Haack
- Ian Hacking
- Charles Hampden-Turner
- David Hartley
- Mary Hesse
- Sir Muhammad Iqbal
- Nicholas Jardine
- Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones
- Philip Kitcher
- Georg Kreisel
- Martin Kusch
- Imre Lakatos
- Casimir Lewy
- E. J. Lowe
- John Lucas
- Donald M. MacKinnon
- Ruth Barcan Marcus
- Moez Masoud
- Margaret Masterman
- Emil Mattiesen
- Marshall McLuhan
- J. M. E. McTaggart
- Hugh Mellor
- G. E. Moore
- Henry More
- Peter Munz
- Iris Murdoch
N–Z
- Michael Oakeshott
- C. K. Ogden
- Onora O'Neill
- G. E. L. Owen
- William Paley
- Sir Karl Popper
- Graham Priest
- Frank P. Ramsey
- Bertrand Russell, Nobel Prize winner
- George Santayana
- Duns Scotus
- Roger Scruton
- Henry Sidgwick
- B. F. Skinner
- Timothy Smiley
- John Smith
- Timothy Sprigge
- George Steiner
- C. L. Stevenson
- Leo Strauss
- Galen Strawson
- Stephen Toulmin
- John Venn
- Michael Walzer
- James Ward
- William Whewell
- Benjamin Whichcote
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Sir Bernard Williams
- John Wisdom
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- John Worthington
- Crispin Wright
Economists
- R. G. D. Allen
- Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England
- Rowland Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer, Governor of the Bank of England
- Peter Thomas Bauer
- Charlie Bean
- David Bensusan-Butt
- Christopher Bliss
- D. G. Champernowne
- Ha-Joon Chang
- Robert Chote
- Cameron Cobbold, 1st Baron Cobbold, Governor of the Bank of England
- Alfred Clayton Cole, Governor of the Bank of England
- John James Cowperthwaite
- Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe, Governor of the Bank of England
- Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize winner
- Stanley Dennison
- Gérard Debreu, Nobel Prize winner
- Maurice Dobb
- John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell
- Robert Fogel, Nobel Prize winner*
- Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize winner*
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- Pierangelo Garegnani
- Sir Edward George, Governor of the Bank of England
- Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet
- Oliver Hart, Nobel Prize winner
- Noreena Hertz
- Sir Hubert Henderson
- John Hicks, Nobel Prize winner
- John C. Hull
- Harry Johnson
- Richard Kahn
- Nicholas Kaldor
- John Maynard Keynes
- Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England
- Patrick Lynch
- Thomas Malthus
- Alfred Marshall
- James Meade, Nobel Prize winner
- Murray Milgate
- James Mirrlees, Nobel Prize winner
- Robert Neild
- Montagu Norman, 1st Baron Norman, Governor of the Bank of England
- Douglass North, Nobel Prize winner*
- Luigi Pasinetti
- Arthur Cecil Pigou
- Rogelio Ramírez de la O
- Frank P. Ramsey
- Gordon Richardson, Governor of the Bank of England
- Dennis Robertson
- Austin Robinson
- Joan Robinson
- Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize winner
- Ajit Singh
- Piero Sraffa
- Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize winner
- Richard Stone, Nobel Prize winner
- John Vaizey
- Yuen Pau Woo
Historians
A–M
- Lord Acton
- Frank Adcock
- Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer Prize winner
- David Armitage
- Tony Badger
- Jonathan Bate
- George Ewart Bean
- Paul Bew
- David Brading
- Asa Briggs
- Lawrence Brockett
- Sir Denis William Brogan
- Hugh Brogan
- Oscar Browning
- J. B. Bury
- Sir Herbert Butterfield
- Angus Calder
- Sir David Cannadine
- E. H. Carr
- Hector Munro Chadwick
- John Chadwick
- Sir John Clapham
- Alfred Cobban
- Simon Coleman
- Linda Colley
- Patrick Collinson
- John S. Conway
- G. G. Coulton
- Maurice Cowling
- Jodocus Crull
- William Dalrymple
- Isaac Deutscher
- Rhoda Dorsey
- John Elliott
- Sir Geoffrey Elton
- Richard J. Evans
- Robert Evans
- David N. Farr, British historian and schoolmaster
- Niall Ferguson
- Orlando Figes
- Sir James Frazer
- David J. Garrow, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Paul Ginsborg
- Thomas Gray
- E. H. H. Green
- Bernard Green
- John Guy
- Sir John Habakkuk
- Alfred Cort Haddon, father of modern anthropology
- Basil Liddell Hart
- Tobias Hecht, American anthropologist
- Marko Attila Hoare
- Eric Hobsbawm
- Richard Holmes
- Harold James
- Lisa Jardine
- Nicholas Jardine
- Tony Judt
- Colin Kidd
- Victor Kiernan
- Alexander William Kinglake
- James Klugmann
- Wilbur Knorr
- David Knowles
- Peter Laslett
- John Le Neve
- John Leland, father of English history
- Carenza Lewis
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Sir Henry James Sumner Maine
- F. W. Maitland
- Peter Mathias
- Keith Middlemas
N–Z
- Joseph Needham
- Roy Franklin Nichols, Pulitzer Prize winner
- C. Northcote Parkinson
- Henry Pelling
- Harold Perkin
- Sir John H. Plumb
- Sir Michael Postan
- Justin Pollard
- Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
- Roy Porter
- Sir Michael Postan
- Eileen Power
- Sir George Prothero
- Andrew Roberts
- George Rudé
- Sir Steven Runciman
- Simon Schama
- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Pulitzer Prize winner
- Simon Sebag-Montefiore
- Sir John Robert Seeley
- Quentin Skinner
- Denis Mack Smith
- Sir Henry Spelman
- Tom Stannage
- David Starkey
- Norman Stone
- Harold McCarter Taylor
- Harold Temperley
- Dorothy Thompson
- E. P. Thompson
- David Thomson
- G. M. Trevelyan
- Hugh Trevor-Roper
- Shallet Turner
- George Waddington
- Sir Adolphus William Ward
- Charles Wilson
- Robert M. Young
Linguists
- Keith Brown, Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
- John Lyons, semanticist
- April McMahon, evolutionary linguist
- Peter Hugoe Matthews, morphologist
- Rebecca Posner, Romance philologist
- Ian Roberts, syntactician
- Ghil'ad Zuckermann, revivalist, contact linguist, lexicologist
Classicists
- P. E. Easterling
- Dame Mary Beard
- Gábor Betegh
- Angus M. Bowie
- James Clackson
- James Duff Duff
- Simon Goldhill
- J. G. W. Henderson
- Emily Gowers
- Myles Burnyeat
- Victoria Rimell
- Paul Cartledge
- Robin Cormack
- Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
- David Sedley
- Richard L. Hunter
- G. E. R. Lloyd
- Christopher Kelly
- Martin Millett
- Stephen Oakley
- Denys Page
- Peter Garnsey
- Philip Hardie
- Helen Lovatt
- Anthony Snodgrass
- Robin Osborne
- Richard Duncan-Jones
- Caroline Vout
- A. E. Housman
- Michael Scott
- Tim Whitmarsh
- D. R. Shackleton Bailey
- Michael Reeve
- Roy Gibson
Armed forces
- Charles Cornwallis, Lieutenant General
- Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector
- Sir Richard Dearlove, Head of Secret Intelligence Service
- Arthur Estcourt, First World War soldier
- Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, Parliamentary commander-in-chief during the English Civil War
- Billy Fiske, Second World War RAF pilot
- Frank Ludlow, botanist and Army officer
- Louis Mountbatten, First Sea Lord
- Siegfried Sassoon, poet; Lieutenant, Sussex Yeomanry; awarded the Military Cross for actions during World War I
- Arthur Tedder, First World War RAF pilot
- General Sir Peter Anthony Wall, KCB, CBE, ADC Gen. Chief of General Staff, British Army, and Chief Royal Engineer
Educationalists
A–M
- Theodore Acland, Headmaster of Norwich School
- Syed Ali Akbar, major educator of Hyderabad State
- Frederick Attenborough, Principal of the University of Leicester and the West London Institute of Higher Education
- John Haden Badley, founder and first headmaster of Bedales School
- Isaac Barrow, founder of King William's College
- St. Vincent Beechey, founder and first headmaster of Rossall School
- Frank Bell, founder and first Chairman of the Bell Educational Trust
- Niels Bohr, founder of the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen
- Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University and the University of Michigan
- William Grant Broughton, founder of The King's School, Parramatta, Australia's first independent school
- Sir Dominic Cadbury, Chancellor of the University of Birmingham
- Henry Cavendish, co-founder of the Royal Institution
- Lord William Cavendish, founder of Eastbourne College and Chancellor of London University and Cambridge University
- Sir William Cecil, responsible for revitalising Stamford School in 1548
- Hugh Childers, founder of the University of Melbourne
- Sir Samuel Curran, founder, first Principal and first Vice-chancellor of the University of Strathclyde
- Emily Davies, founder of Girton College, the first residential higher education institution for women
- C. D. Deshmukh, Vice-chancellor of the University of Delhi
- Arthur Dunn, founder and second master of Ludgrove School
- Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard
- Nathaniel Eaton, first schoolmaster at Harvard
- John Eliot, founder of Roxbury Latin School, the oldest school in North America
- Sir Christopher Frayling, writer and educationalist
- Anthony Giddens, Director of the London School of Economics
- Eli Gottlieb, Director of the Mandel Leadership Institute
- Sir Brandon Gough, Chancellor of the University of East Anglia and Chairman of the Higher Education Funding Council for England
- Sir Hari Singh Gour, founder and Vice-chancellor of the University of Delhi, the University of Nagpur and the University of Sagar
- Malcolm Grant, Provost and President of University College London
- Sir Thomas Gresham, founder and first benefactor of Gresham College
- Lord Thomas de Grey, co-founder of the Royal Institute of British Architects
- Sir Peter Hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Director of the National Theatre
- Andrew D. Hamilton, current Vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford
- John Harvard, co-founder and first benefactor of Harvard
- Elizabeth Phillips Hughes, de facto founder of Hughes Hall, Cambridge and campaigner for women's right to education
- David Lloyd Johnston, former President of the University of Waterloo
- Marty Kaplan, professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and founding director of the Norman Lear Center
- Sir John Kingman, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol and Director of the Isaac Newton Institute
- Thomas Langley, founder of Durham School
- Lord George Lascelles, first Chancellor of the University of York
- Edward Latymer, founder of The Latymer School and Latymer Upper School
- Arthur Li, Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Thomas Linacre, founder of the Royal College of Physicians
- Anthony R. M. Little, Headmaster of Eton College
- Adam Loftus, co-founder and first Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
- Roger Lupton, Provost of Eton College and founder of Sedbergh School
- Jack Meyer, founder of Millfield School and St Lawrence College, Athens
- Sir Walter Mildmay, founder of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
N–Z
- Bernard Orchard, re-founder of St Benedict's School, lead it to become the only Catholic day school of Public School status
- Karl Pearson, founder of the world's first university statistics department at University College London
- Stephen Perse, founder of The Perse School
- John Pye-Smith, co-founder of Mill Hill School
- Alison Richard, Provost of Yale University and Vice-chancellor of Cambridge University
- Sir Evelyn Robert de Rothschild, Governor of the London School of Economics and council member at RADA
- Sir Nicholas Shackleton, Cambridge Professor and President of the International Union for Quaternary Research
- Sheung-Wai Tam, President of The Open University of Hong Kong and Chairman of St. Paul's Co-educational College
- Shahid Aziz Siddiqi, Vice-chancellor of the Ziauddin Medical University
- Henry Sidgwick, co-founder of the Society for Psychical Research and Newnham College, Cambridge
- John Sperling, founder of the University of Phoenix
- Sir Thomas Sutton, founder of Charterhouse School
- Geoffrey Thomas, President of Kellogg College, Oxford
- Edward Thring, Headmaster of Uppingham School and founder of the Headmasters' Conference
- Sir John Tusa, Chairman of the University of the Arts London
- William Waynflete, founder of Magdalen College, Oxford and Magdalen College School
- William Wentworth, de facto founder of the University of Sydney
- John Whitgift, founder of Whitgift School and Trinity School and, indirectly, Old Palace School
- Sir David Glyndwr Tudor Williams, Chancellor of Swansea University and Vice-chancellor of Cambridge University
- James Wilson, Headmaster of Clifton College
- Michael Young, co-founder of The Open University
Entrepreneurs, business leaders and philanthropists
A–M
- Marcus Agius, financier and businessman, chairman of Barclays bank
- Lord Robert Alexander, Chairman of the NatWest bank
- Simon Ambrose, business entrepreneur, winner of The Apprentice
- Simon Arora, billionaire CEO of B & M
- Sir Hugh Barton, Chairman and Managing Director of Jardine, Matheson & Co
- Peter Bazalgette, media expert, Creative Director figure at the global TV firm Endemol
- Sir Max Bemrose, noted industrialist
- Karan Bilimoria, entrepreneur, co-founder and Chairman of Cobra Beer
- Lee Bollinger, Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York board of directors
- John Browne, Chief Executive of BP
- Amit Burman,, billionaire Chairman of Dabur
- Stewart Butterfield, Co-Founder of Slack Technologies and Flickr
- Sir Egbert Cadbury, Managing Director of Cadbury, the British confectionery firm
- Dame Elizabeth Cadbury, philanthropist, founder of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
- Peter Cadbury, entrepreneur, founder and first chairman of Westward Television
- Clementine Chambon chemical engineer, founder of Oorja Solutions
- David Cleevely, entrepreneur and international telecoms expert, co-founder and Chief Executive of Abcam plc
- Mark Coombs, billionaire CEO of Ashmore Group
- Gerald Corbett, Chief Executive of Railtrack, chairman Moneysupermarket.com and formerly Woolworths
- Charles "Nick" Corfield, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, inventor of Adobe FrameMaker
- Sir Andrew Crockett, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, member of JPMorgan Chase and Group of Thirty
- Andrew Currie , billionaire director at Ineos
- Gavyn Davies, Managing Director of Goldman Sachs investment bank and Chairman of the BBC
- Sir C. D. Deshmukh, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
- Dinesh Dhamija, founder, Chairman and Chief Executive of the pioneering online travel agency Ebookers
- Ray Dolby, audio technologies inventor and founder of Dolby
- Mohamed A. El-Erian, Chief Executive of PIMCO investment firm
- Massimo Ellul, marketing and management consultant; philanthropist
- Sir Brandon Gough, business leader, Chairman of Yorkshire Water, Coopers & Lybrand, and De La Rue plc
- Andrew Gower, video game developer, co-founder of Jagex and founder of RuneScape
- Roger J. Hamilton, social entrepreneur, futurist, creator of Wealth Dynamics, Talent Dynamics, founder of Entrepreneurs Institute
- Demis Hassabis, entrepreneur, founder of Deepmind
- David Harding , billionaire founder and CEO of Winton Group
- Barney Harford, former CEO of Orbitz.com and COO of Uber
- Clive Fiske Harrison, investment banker, Chairman of Fiske plc.
- Hermann Hauser, electronics entrepreneur, co-founder of Acorn Computers
- Johnny Hon, Hong Kong born international businessman and founder of the Global Group
- Andy Hopper, electronics entrepreneur, academic
- Michael Johns, healthcare executive, former White House speechwriter
- Sir Paul Judge, businessman and entrepreneur, Director of Standard Bank Group
- Nihad Kabir, President of Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka
- Sir Henry Keswick, Chairman of Jardine Matheson Holdings
- Hosein Khajeh-Hosseiny, founder of OpenX Innovations, trustee of The Brookings Institution
- Andrew Kuper Founder and CEO of LeapFrog Investments
- Raymond Kwok, Hong Kong property billionaire
- Randy Lerner, American sports entrepreneur, owner of Cleveland Browns and Aston Villa F.C.
- Edward Lewis, founder of Decca Records
- Sir David Li, Chairman and Chief Executive of the Bank of East Asia
- Paddy Lowe, Engineering Director of the McLaren Formula One racing team
- Michael Lynch, software and internet entrepreneur; co-founder and Chief Executive of Autonomy Corporation
- Lord David Cobbold, proprietor of Knebworth House; founder of the Knebworth Rock Festival
- Paul Mellon, philanthropist, owner of Mellon Financial Corporation
- Zia Mody, founding partner of AZB & Partners, India's second-largest law firm
- Liam Mooney, entrepreneur living in Dubai
- Simon Murray, Senior Director of Strategy, Curatorship and External Affairs; Deputy to the Director General of the National Trust and Chief Party Starter
- Nathan Myhrvold, former Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft; co-founder of Intellectual Ventures
N–Z
- Nigel Newton, founder and Chief Executive of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Edwin Nixon, successively Managing Director, Chairman and Chief Executive of IBM|IBM , then Chairman of Amersham
- Archie Norman, Chairman of ITV plc and formerly Kingfisher plc and Asda
- Christian Purslow, Managing Director of Liverpool Football Club and Founder of MidOcean Partners private equity firm
- Sir Michael Rake, Chairman of BT Group and formerly director of Barclays, McGraw-Hill and the Financial Reporting Council
- Sir Benegal Rama Rau, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
- John Reece, billionaire Chief Finance Officer at Ineos
- Sir Harry Ricardo, pioneering engine designer, founder of Ricardo plc
- Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce, the automobile and aviation company
- Anthony Gustav de Rothschild, Managing Partner of N M Rothschild & Sons, art collector and race horse breeder
- Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, Chairman of N M Rothschild & Sons, art collector and noted horticulturalist
- Sir Evelyn Robert de Rothschild, Chairman of N M Rothschild & Sons and Director of IBM United Kingdom Holdings Limited
- Leopold de Rothschild, banker, art collector and thoroughbred race horse breeder
- Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, banker, Conservative politician and creator and manager of Exbury Gardens
- Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, banker, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and race horse owner
- Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, Managing Partner of N M Rothschild & Sons and funder of the Suez Canal construction
- Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, Chairman of N M Rothschild & Sons and biologist
- Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, banker, Liberal politician and pioneering zoologist
- David Sainsbury, Sainsbury's supermarket fortune heir; philanthropist
- Sir Robert Sainsbury, Chairman of Sainsbury's supermarket
- Simon Sainsbury, Director and Deputy Chairman of Sainsbury's supermarket
- Rod Smallwood, music entrepreneur, manager of Iron Maiden, co-founder of Sanctuary Records
- Martin Sorrell, founder of WPP, the world's largest advertising group
- John Sperling, for-profit education entrepreneur, founder of the University of Phoenix
- Lord Dennis Stevenson, Director of BSkyB, a Chairman of HBOS
- Stephen B. Streater, electronics entrepreneur, founder of Eidos
- Roger Tamraz, international banker and oil industry entrepreneur, Director of Intra Bank
- Dorabji Tata, Indian industrialist and philanthropist, Chairman of the Tata Group
- Andy Taylor, music entrepreneur, manager of Iron Maiden, co-founder of Sanctuary Records
- David Thomson, Canada's wealthiest family, Thomson Corp.
- Kenneth Thomson & David Thomson, Canada's wealthiest family, Thomson Corp.
- Onyeche Tifase, MD/CEO of Siemens Nigeria and President of Nigerian-German Chamber of Commerce
- Sam Toy, Chairman of Ford of Britain|Ford Motor Company
- Geoff Travis, founder of Rough Trade Records and Rough Trade Music Store
- Lord David Triesman, business leader, Labour life peer and disgraced ex-chairman of The FA
- Sir John Tusa, Managing Director of the Barbican Arts Centre and the BBC World Service, Chairman of the Victoria and Albert Museum
- Sir Tim Waterstone, founder of Waterstone's, the largest specialist bookseller in the UK
- Samuel Whitbread, early owner of Whitbread & Co Ltd brewing firm, Whig politician
- William Henry Whitbread, Managing Partner of Whitbread & Co Ltd brewing firm, Whig and Liberal politician
- Tony Wilson, music and youth culture entrepreneur, founder of Factory Records and owner of The Haçienda nightclub
- Daniel Yergin, founder of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and Pulitzer Prize winner
- Xin Zhang, founder and CEO of SOHO China
- Zhang Zetian, chief fashion adviser at JD.com
The law
Judges and lawyers
- Charles Sterling Acolatse, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana
- Aitzaz Ahsan, President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan
- Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh, International Court of Justice judge
- Mary Arden, first female High Court judge to be assigned to the Chancery Division
- Mirza Hameedullah Beg, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India
- Chris Bentley, Attorney General of Ontario
- Sir Louis Blom-Cooper, major lawyer specialising in public law and co-founder of Amnesty International
- Lee Bollinger, US High Court lawyer
- Sir Dennis Byron, Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- Kenneth Clarke, British Lord Chancellor
- Paul Clement, Attorney General of the United States
- Sir Edward Coke, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Attorney General for England and Wales, widely regarded as the greatest English jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras; was influential on early American law
- Alvin Robert Cornelius, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
- Professor James Crawford, Judge of the International Court of Justice
- Charles Falconer, British Lord Chancellor
- Anthony Gates, Chief Justice of the High Court of Fiji
- Lord Peter Goldsmith, Attorney General for England, Wales and Northern Ireland
- Sir Hari Singh Gour, author of the Indian Penal Code, Member of the Legislative Assembly
- 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, the only woman ever to be appointed as one of the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, then Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, first female Deputy President and President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- Mohammad Hidayatullah, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, first Muslim to attain the post
- Rosalyn Higgins, first female International Court of Justice judge, President
- Yong Pung How, Chief Justice of Singapore
- Karl Hudson-Phillips, International Criminal Court judge, Trinidad and Tobago legal advisor and politician
- Ahmad Mohamed Ibrahim, Attorney-General of Singapore
- Derry Irvine, British Lord Chancellor, mentor of Tony Blair and Cherie Booth
- Sir Rupert Jackson, Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales
- Professor Robert Jennings, Judge of the International Court of Justice, later President
- Wee Chong Jin, first Chief Justice of the Republic of Singapore
- Anthony Julius, lawyer in Princess Diana and David Irving cases
- Makhdoom Ali Khan, Attorney General of Pakistan
- Susan Kiefel, Justice of the High Court of Australia
- Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, International Court of Justice lawyer
- Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, Judge of the International Court of Justice, member of the UN's International Law Commission
- Andrew Li, Chief Justice of Hong Kong
- Wong Yan Lung, Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong
- Sir Richard May, major judge, British representative on the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
- Chua Lee Ming, Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore
- S.M. Mir, Prime Minister/Chief Minister, Tonk State, District and Sessions Judge
- Zia Mody, founding partner of AZB & Partners, India's second-largest law firm
- Chan Seng Oon, Justice of the Supreme Court of Singapore
- Hisashi Owada, International Court of Justice judge, President
- Lord Nicholas Phillips, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- V. K. Rajah, Attorney-General of Singapore, former Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Singapore
- Sir Benegal Rama Rau, Vice-chairman of the UN's International Law Commission
- Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, Attorney General for England and Wales
- Lord Reid, one of the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary
- Patricia A. Rowbotham, Justice of the Alberta Court of Appeal, Canada
- Lord James Scarlett , Judge, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer
- Sir Peter Singer, Judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales
- Sir Peter Smith, Judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales
- Choo Han Teck, Justice of the Supreme Court of Singapore
- Sir Colman Treacy, Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales
- Lord Roger Toulson, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- Evan Wallach, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, former judge of the United States Court of International Trade
- Walter Woon, Attorney-General of Singapore
Legal academics
- Gary Chartier, US anarchist legal theorist
- Lawrence Lessig, US cyberlaw expert, founder of the Creative Commons movement, free software advocate
Journalists and media personalities
- J. R. Ackerley
- Clive Anderson
- Neal Ascherson
- Sir David Attenborough
- Joan Bakewell
- Thorold Barker
- Martin Bell
- Jasmine Birtles
- Chris Blackhurst
- Christopher Booker
- Alain de Botton
- Bill Buford
- John F. Burns, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Humphrey Burton, Emmy Award winner
- Pat Chapman
- Ted Conover
- Alistair Cooke
- Geoffrey Crowther
- Tamasin Day-Lewis
- Rick Edwards
- Larry Elliott
- Sir David Frost
- Stephen Fry
- Jonathan Galassi
- James K. Galbraith
- George Gale
- Bamber Gascoigne
- Dermot Gleeson
- Andrew Gowers
- Germaine Greer
- James Harding
- Johann Hari
- Simon Hoggart
- Charlotte Hudson
- Arianna Huffington
- Konnie Huq
- Faisal Islam
- Clive James
- Gareth Jones
- Spencer Kelly
- Lewis H. Lapham
- Walter Layton
- Emily Maitlis
- Andrew Marr
- Kingsley Martin
- Kevin McCloud
- John McPhee, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Malcolm Muggeridge
- Jeremy Paxman
- George Plimpton
- Norman Podhoretz
- Andrew Rawnsley
- Alan Rusbridger
- Jenni Russell
- Roxana Saberi
- John Simpson
- Tim Stanley
- Zoe Strimpel
- Karan Thapar
- Noel Thompson
- Peter Utley
- Carol Vorderman
- Sid Waddell
- Alan Watkins
- Colin Welch
- Richard Whiteley, TV presenter
- Claudia Winkleman
- Peregrine Worsthorne
Sportspeople
Athletes
- Harold Abrahams, Olympian gold medallist
- David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, Olympian gold Medallist
- Stephanie Cook, Olympic pentathlon gold medallist
- Syed Mohammad Hadi, multi-talented India international
- Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Nobel Prize winner
Aviators
- Alan Charles Cassidy, Total 9 medals in European or World Aerobatic Championships, 1998–2003.
Bridge
- Sandra Landy, international player for England and for Great Britain; world champion 1981
- Tom Townsend, Britain and England international and writer
Backgammon
- Zoe Cunningham, 2010 Ladies World Backgammon Champion and business executive
Cricketers
- Sir George "Gubby" Allen, England captain
- Mike Atherton, England captain, led England in a record 54 Test matches
- Giles Baring, first class
- Mark Bott, first class
- Mike Brearley, England captain
- Antony Roy Clark, first class
- John Crawley, England international
- Percy de Paravicini, first class
- Ted Dexter, England captain
- Phil Edmonds, England international
- Tony Lewis, England and Glamorgan cricket captain
- Alfred Lyttelton, first man to play both cricket and football for England
- Peter May, England international
- Derek Pringle, England international
Cyclists
- Emma Pooley, Olympic silver medal, world time trial champion
Fencers
- Peter Jacobs, Olympic fencer
- Paul Klenerman, Olympic sabre fencer
Footballers
- Percy de Paravicini, England international
- Arthur Dunn, England international
- Alfred Lyttelton, first man to play both cricket and football for England
- Steve Palmer, English Premier League footballer, most notably at Ipswich Town F.C.
- William Leslie Poole, Father of Uruguayan Football.
- John Veitch, England international
Mountaineers
- E. S. Kennedy
- George Mallory
Racing drivers
- Oliver Turvey, GP2 driver
Racehorse trainers
- John Gosden
Rowers
- Milan Bruncvík, Czech Olympian
- Sir Adrian Cadbury, 1952 Olympian and former Chairman of Cadbury plc
- Rebecca Dowbiggin, British cox
- Tom James, two-time Olympic gold medallist
- David Jennens, European Champion and Olympian
- George Nash, British Olympic bronze medallist
- Shane O'Mara, American rower
- Alistair Potts, world champion cox
- John Pritchard, British Olympic silver medallist
- Tom Ransley, world champion and Olympic bronze medallist
- Sidney Swann, Olympic gold medallist
- Annabel Vernon, Olympic silver medallist
- Anna Watkins, Olympic gold medallist
- Josh West, British-American Olympic silver medallist
- Kieran West, Olympic gold medallist
- Sarah Winckless, world champion and Olympic bronze medallist
Rugby footballers
- Rob Andrew, England international
- Logie Bruce Lockhart, Scotland international
- Eddie Butler, Wales international
- Gavin Hastings, Scotland international
- Damian Hopley, England international
- Liam Mooney, Ireland international
- Eric Peters, Scotland international
- Martin Purdy, club level
- Andy Ripley, England international
- Mark Robinson, New Zealand international
- Chris Sheasby, England international
- Tony Underwood, England international
- Dan Vickerman, Australia international
- Wavell Wakefield, England international
Table tennis players
- Deng Yaping, Olympic gold medalist and world champion
Winter sports
- Billy Fiske, youngest US Olympic gold medalist
Sports administrators
- John Veitch, President of Marylebone Cricket Club
Explorers
- William John Bankes, responsible for amassing the largest personal collection of Egyptian artifacts, at the family home Kingston Lacy
- Julius Brenchley, pre-eminent adventurer of the Victorian era
- John Brereton, chronicler of the first European exploration of Cape Cod and its environs
- Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, responsible for rediscovering the ancient ruins of the city of Petra, lost for almost a millennium
- Sir Thomas Cavendish, first man to intentionally circumnavigate the globe
- Walter Butler Cheadle, explorer of Western Canada, namesake of Cheadle, Alberta
- Francis Fletcher, accompanied Sir Francis Drake on his circumnavigation of the world from 1577 to 1580 and kept a written account of it, claiming Elizabeth Island and New Albion for England
- Sir Vivian Fuchs, responsible for the first overland crossing of Antarctica
- Kenneth Gandar-Dower, led the expedition to Mount Kenya in an attempt to capture the Marozi, piloted one of the first flights to India
- Bartholomew Gosnold, instrumental in founding the Virginia Company, and the Jamestown settlement, the first permanent English/British settlement in the Americas
- Thomas Hooker, founder of the province of Connecticut and the settlement of Hartford
- George Mallory, possibly the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest
- John Mason, responsible for drawing up the first English map of Newfoundland and naming New Hampshire
- St. John Philby, leading Arabist and explorer of the Middle East
- John Robinson, pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers
- William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, explorer of Western Canada, first "tourist" to travel through the Yellowhead Pass
- John Wheelwright, early explorer of New Hampshire, founder of the settlement of Exeter
- Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, known for attempts to cooperate with Native Americans
- Edward Adrian Wilson who died on the way to the South Pole with Robert Falcon Scott.
- John Winthrop, founder and first Governor of Massachusetts