Member |
Election Date |
College |
Notability |
References |
Noel Annan, Baron Annan |
|
King's |
House of Lords; provost of King's College, Cambridge; British military intelligence officer; provost of University College London; and vice-chancellor of the University of London |
[2] |
Ferenc Békássy |
27 January 1911 |
King's |
Poet |
[1] |
Julian Bell |
17 November 1928 |
King's |
Poet |
[1] |
Hugh Blackburn |
|
Trinity |
Professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow |
|
George Holmes Blakesley |
28 February 1868 |
King's |
Author |
[1] |
Joseph Blakesley |
|
Trinity |
Canon of Canterbury Cathedral and Dean of Lincoln |
|
Anthony Blunt |
|
Trinity |
Art historian and Soviet spy who was a member of the Cambridge Five |
[3] |
R. B. Braithwaite |
26 February 1921 |
King's |
Philosopher and ethicist |
[1] |
Rupert Brooke |
25 January 1908 |
King's |
Poet |
[1][4] |
Oscar Browning |
11 December 1858 |
King's |
Educationalist and historian |
[1] |
Charles Buller |
|
Trinity |
Member of Parliament and Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces |
|
Guy Burgess |
|
Trinity |
Radio producer, British intelligence and Foreign Office officer, and Soviet spy who was a member of the Cambridge Five |
[3][5] |
John Cairncross |
|
Trinity |
British intelligence officer and Soviet spy |
[3] |
William Dougal Christie |
|
Trinity |
British diplomat, politician, and man of letters |
|
William Cookesley |
8 November 1928 |
Trinity |
Classical scholar, cleric, and master of Eton College |
[1] |
William Johnson Cory |
10 March 1844 |
King's |
Educator and poet |
[1] |
Gerald Croasdell |
|
Pembroke |
Trade unionist and general secretary of the International Federation of Actors |
|
Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
|
Christ's |
Brother of Charles Darwin |
|
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson |
14 February 1885 |
King's |
Historian, political philosopher, and activist |
[1] |
James Hamilton Doggart |
|
King's |
Ophthalmologist, cricketer, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group |
|
Frederic Farrar |
|
Trinity |
Dean of Canterbury, school teacher, and author |
|
E. M. Forster |
9 February 1901 |
King's |
Novelist, writer, and a member of Bloomsbury Group |
[1][4][6] |
Roger Fry |
28 May 1887 |
King's |
Painter and critic |
[1][6] |
Robin Gandy |
|
King's |
Mathematician and logician |
[7] |
Walford Davis Green |
6 March 1905 |
King's |
House of Commons of the United Kingdom |
[1] |
Arthur Hallam |
|
Trinity |
Poet |
[8] |
Thomas Oliver Harding |
1872 |
Trinity |
Senior Wrangler at Cambridge University |
[9] |
G. H. Hardy |
|
Trinity |
Mathematician |
|
Francis Haskell |
|
King's |
Art historian |
|
Ralph George Hawtrey |
|
Trinity |
Economist and a member of Bloomsbury Group |
[6] |
Douglas Heath |
|
Trinity |
Barrister, judge, literary editor, classical scholar, and writer |
[10] |
Arthur Helps |
|
Trinity |
Writer and dean of the Privy Council |
|
Eric Hobsbawm |
193x |
King's |
Academic historian and Marxist historiographer |
|
Alan Hodgkin |
1935 |
Trinity |
Biophysicist and co-winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology |
|
F. J. A. Hort |
|
Trinity |
Anglican theologian |
|
George Howard |
1864 |
Trinity |
Painter and the 9th Earl of Carlisle |
|
Henry Jackson |
1863 |
Trinity |
Vice-master of Trinity College and Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge |
|
Lal Jayawardena |
|
King's |
Sri Lankan Ambassador to the European Economic Community, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands; economist; and first director of the World Institute for Development Economics Research |
[11] |
Richard Claverhouse Jebb |
1859 |
Trinity |
Classical scholar and MP for Cambridge |
|
John Mitchell Kemble |
|
Trinity |
Scholar and historian who made one of the first translations of Beowulf |
|
Benjamin Hall Kennedy |
|
St John's |
Scholar and schoolmaster |
|
John Maynard Keynes |
28 February 1903 |
King's |
Economist |
[1][4][6] |
Henry Lintott |
30 November 1929 |
King's |
British High Commissioner to Canada |
[1] |
Richard Llewelyn-Davies, Baron Llewelyn-Davies |
|
Trinity |
Architect |
[12] |
D. W. Lucas |
7 November 1925 |
King's |
Classical scholar, a fellow of King's College, and cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park during World War II |
[1] |
Gordon Luce |
|
Emmanuel |
Orientalist and colonial scholar in Burma |
|
Vernon Lushington |
|
Trinity |
Deputy Judge Advocate General and Second Secretary to the Admiralty |
|
Donald MacAlister |
1876 |
St. John's |
Chancellor of the University of Glasgow |
|
William Herrick Macaulay |
20 May 1876 |
King's |
Mathematician |
[1] |
Desmond MacCarthy |
|
Trinity |
Writer and the foremost literary and dramatic critic of his day |
[6] |
John Gorham Maitland |
|
Trinity |
Academic and civil servant |
|
Arthur Malkin |
1826 |
Trinity |
Cricketer, writer, and alpinist |
|
F. D. Maurice |
|
Trinity |
Anglican socialist theologian |
|
James Clerk Maxwell |
|
Trinity |
Physicist responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation |
|
Robert John Grote Mayor |
2 March 1888 |
King's |
Civil servant and educationist |
[1] |
Norman McLean |
1888 |
Christ's |
Semitic and Biblical scholar |
|
J. M. E. McTaggart |
|
Trinity |
Metaphysician and philosopher |
[1] |
Jonathan Miller |
|
St John's |
theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, and humourist |
|
Richard Monckton Milnes |
|
Trinity |
Poet, patron of literature, and the 1st Baron Houghton |
|
James Mirrlees |
|
Trinity |
British Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences |
|
Robert Monteith |
|
Trinity |
Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Lanark, Scotland |
|
G. E. Moore |
|
Trinity |
Philosopher and one of the founders of analytic philosophy |
[1][6] |
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet |
|
Trinity |
Jurist |
|
Dennis Proctor |
22 October 1927 |
King's |
British civil servant; Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath |
[1] |
Marlborough Pryor |
|
Trinity |
Businessman |
[13] |
Walter Raleigh |
28 October 1882 |
King's |
Scholar, poet, and author |
[1] |
Frank Plumpton Ramsey |
22 October 1921 |
King's |
Philosopher and economist |
[1] |
Thomas Robinson |
|
Trinity |
Archdeacon of Madras; Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge; and Master of the Temple |
|
Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild |
|
Trinity |
Banker, scientist, intelligence officer, and government advisor |
|
Bertrand Russell |
|
Trinity |
Philosopher and logician; one of the founders of analytic philosophy |
[1][14] |
Dadie Rylands |
25 February 1922 |
King's |
Literary scholar and theatre director |
[1] |
Amartya Sen |
|
Trinity |
Economist and philosopher |
[4] |
John Tresidder Sheppard |
8 February 1902 |
King's |
Classical scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge |
[1] |
Peter Shore |
|
King's |
British Labour Party politician and Cabinet minister |
[15] |
Gerald Shove |
30 January 1909 |
King's |
Economist |
[1] |
Henry Sidgwick |
|
Trinity |
Philosopher and economist; founder and first president of the Society for Psychical Research |
[4] |
Quentin Skinner |
|
Christ's |
A founder of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought; winner of the Wolfson History Prize and the Balzan Prize |
|
Arthur Smith |
|
Trinity |
Archaeologist and curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum; director of the British School at Rome |
[16] |
Henry Babington Smith |
|
Trinity |
Senior British civil servant and a director of the Bank of England |
[16] |
James Parker Smith |
|
Trinity |
Barrister and politician who served as Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for Partick |
[16] |
W. J. H. Sprott |
|
Clare |
Psychologist and writer |
|
Edward Stanley |
|
Trinity |
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Colonial Secretary, and 15th Earl of Derby |
|
Vincent Henry Stanton |
|
|
Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University |
|
James Kenneth Stephen |
17 May 1879 |
King's |
Poet and royal tutor |
[1] |
Leslie Stephen |
|
King's |
Writer and mountaineer; father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell |
[1][4] |
John Sterling |
|
Trinity |
Author |
|
Lytton Strachey |
|
Trinity |
Writer, critic, and a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group |
[1][4] |
Michael Straight |
|
Trinity |
Magazine publisher, novelist, and Soviet spy |
[3] |
Saxon Sydney-Turner |
early 1900s |
Trinity |
British civil servant and a member of Bloomsbury Group |
[6] |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
Trinity |
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom |
[4][8] |
George Derwent Thomson |
10 November 1923 |
King's |
Classical scholar, Marxist philosopher, and scholar of the Irish language |
[1] |
George Tomlinson |
1 April 1820 |
St John's |
first Bishop of Gibraltar |
[1][17] |
Richard Chenevix Trench |
|
Trinity |
Archbishop of Dublin, Primate of Ireland, and poet |
|
G. M. Trevelyan |
|
Trinity |
Chancellor of Durham University; Master and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge |
[2] |
R. C. Trevelyan |
|
Trinity |
Poet and translator |
|
A. W. Verrall |
1877 |
Trinity |
Classics scholar |
|
Francis Warre-Cornish |
c. 1860 |
King's |
Schoolmaster, scholar, and writer |
[1] |
Ronald Watkins |
24 October 1925 |
King's |
Drama teacher and director |
[1] |
Alister Watson |
29 January 1927 |
King's |
Mathematician and a key member of the Cambridge Five |
[1] |
Nathaniel Wedd |
25 February 1888 |
King's |
Historian and academic |
[1] |
Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet |
|
Trinity |
Chief Officer of the London and North Eastern Railway and chairman of the Railway Executive Committee |
|
James Welldon |
6 February 1875 |
King's |
Clergyman and scholar |
[1] |
Brooke Foss Westcott |
|
Trinity |
Bishop of Durham, scholar, and theologian |
|
Alfred North Whitehead |
|
Trinity |
Mathematician and philosopher |
[1] |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
|
Trinity |
Philosopher and logician |
[4][14] |
Leonard Woolf |
|
Trinity |
Author and publisher; husband of Virginia Woolf |
[1][4] |