List of alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
The following is a list of alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
- Harold Abrahams – Olympic athlete, men's 100-metre gold medalist, portrayed in the film Chariots of Fire
- Harold Ackroyd – recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions in the Battle of Passchendaele
- Jerome Alexander – High Court judge in Ireland (died 1670), noted for the exceptional severity of his sentences
- Alistair Appleton – TV presenter
- Andrew Baddeley – middle distance runner
- Nigel Baker - diplomat
- Richard St. Barbe Baker - Founder Men of the Trees precursor of (International Tree Foundation) [1]
- Simon Russell Beale – actor, TV presenter and music historian
- Esmond Birnie – former member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
- Thomas Braddock – clergyman and translator
- John Brereton – chronicler of the first European voyage to New England, 1602
- Iftikhar Bukhari – former Pakistani cricketer who played first class cricket, 1952–1966
- William Butts – King Henry VIII's physician
- John Lindow Calderwood – lawyer and politician
- Alastair Campbell – aide to British prime minister Tony Blair
- Jimmy Carr – comedian and television presenter
- Robert Carr – former British Member of Parliament and Home Secretary
- Helen Castor – historian and television presenter
- Kenneth Clarke – British Member of Parliament, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice and former Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Robin Cooke – New Zealand's only judge to have sat in the House of Lords
- Ronald Cove-Smith – Captain of England rugby team and the 1924 Lions team
- Mark Damazer – controller of BBC Radio 4
- Chris Davies – Liberal Democrat MEP
- David Elstein – media executive, founder of Channel 5 television
- Carolyn Fairbairn – media executive
- Henry Fancourt – naval aviator
- Paul Fincham – composer
- Paola Doimi de Frankopan (aka Lady Nicholas Windsor) – Croatian aristocrat and wife of Lord Nicholas Windsor
- Peter Fraser – politician
- George French – Chief Justice of Sierra Leone and the British Supreme Court for China and Japan
- John Hookham Frere – diplomat and author
- David Frost – broadcaster
- Tim Gardam – journalist and educator
- Richard Geaves – international footballer
- Peter Goldsmith – Attorney General of England and Wales, 2001–07
- Andrew Gowers – journalist
- Thomas Gresham – founder of the Royal Exchange
- John Grimshaw – creator of the National Cycle Network and the Sustrans charity
- Anthony Habgood – chairman of Reed Elsevier and Whitbread
- Christopher Helm – publisher
- Michael Kidson – schoolmaster
- John F. Lehman – American Secretary of the Navy and member of the September 11th Commission
- Thomas Lynch, Jr. – signatory, United States Declaration of Independence
- Iain Macleod – former Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Stephen Mangan – actor
- Inagaki Manjiro – Japan’s first Minister Resident in Siam in 1897
- Douglas Myers – businessman and philanthropist
- Geoff Nicholson – novelist
- Titus Oates – Popish plotter, "17th century's worst Briton"
- Gideon Rachman – journalist
- Thomas Shadwell – playwright, Poet Laureate
- Dorabji Tata – Indian industrialist and philanthropist
- Jeremy Taylor – author and cleric
- Richard Tomlinson – former British MI6 officer
- Adair Turner – businessman
- Keith Vaz – UK politician
- Sophie Watts – film and media executive
- Josh West (born 1977) - British-American Olympic rower and Earth Sciences professor
- William Wilkins – architect
- Edward Adrian Wilson – explorer who died with Robert Falcon Scott in the Antarctic
- Vivian Wineman – President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews
- Mark Wing-Davey – actor and director
- Percy Wyn-Harris – mountaineer, adventurer and one-time Governor of The Gambia
Academics
- Homi J. Bhabha – Indian nuclear physicist and father of India's nuclear programme
- Francis Blomefield – historian of Norfolk
- Max Born – Nobel Prize-winning physicist
- Alain de Botton – popular philosophy writer
- Lord Broers – vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, 1996–2003
- Christopher N. L. Brooke – Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, 1997–94; life fellow of the college until his death in 2015
- John Horton Conway – mathematician
- Geoffrey Crossick – Vice-Chancellor of London University, 2010–12
- David J. Farrar – aeronautical engineer
- David Feldman – historian
- Orlando Figes – historian
- Ronald Fisher – biologist and statistician
- Harold Gillies – "the father of plastic surgery"
- Christopher Green – Regius professor of Physic, 1700–41
- George Green – mathematician
- Harish-Chandra – mathematician
- William Harvey – medical pioneer
- Bill Inman – pharmacovigilance pioneer
- Harold James – historian
- Chandrashekhar Khare – mathematician
- Colin Kidd - historian
- John William Scott Macfie – entomologist
- Gordon Manley – climatologist
- Stephen Marchant – ornithologist
- Simon Sebag Montefiore – historian and journalist
- Bevan Morris – president of Maharishi University of Management
- Walter Myers – physician and parasitologist
- Michael Joseph Oakeshott – philosopher
- Richard Overy – historian
- G. H. Pember – theologian
- Andrew Roberts – historian
- Basil Schonland – physicist and academic
- Howard Somervell – surgeon, mountaineer, and missionary
- A. C. Spearing – author, professor of English medieval literature
- Quentin Stafford-Fraser – computer scientist, and inventor of the webcam
- Norman Stone – historian
- Richard Stone – Nobel Prize-winning economist
- Lars Tharp – historian and broadcaster
- Stephen Tuck – historian, fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford[2]
- John Venn – logician, inventor of the Venn diagram
References
- ↑ Millar, Ruth (2004). Saskatchewan Heroes and Rogues. Google Books: Coteau Books. ISBN 978-1-55050-289-3.
- ↑ "STEPHEN TUCK: PEMBROKE DON; U.S.HISTORY SCHOLAR". The North American Pembrokian. August 4, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
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