This is a list of notable alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge . Some of the alumni noted are connected to Trinity through honorary degrees; not all studied at the college.
Sir Francis Bacon lawyer, philosopher; Lord Chancellor
Enoch Powell , Conservative British politician
Lee Hsien-Loong , Third Prime Minister of Singapore
Jawaharlal Nehru , the first Prime Minister of India
Vicky Ford , serving Conservative British politician
Prime Ministers
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1867–1947), Prime Minister 1923–24, 1924–29, 1935–37 (Conservative)
Arthur Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848–1930), Prime Minister 1902–1905 (Conservative)
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836–1908), Prime Minister 1905–1908 (Liberal)
Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991), Prime Minister of India, 1984–1989
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845), Prime Minister 1830–1834 (Whig); Great Reform Act (1832)
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848), Prime Minister 1834, 1835–1841 (Whig)
Lee Hsien Loong (born 1952), Prime Minister of Singapore , 2004–2024
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964), first Prime Minister of India , 1949–1964
Anand Panyarachun (born 1932), Prime Minister of Thailand, 1991–1992 and again in 1992
Spencer Perceval (1762–1812), Prime Minister 1809–1812 (Tory); assassinated
William Waddington (1826–1894), French Prime Minister 1879; archaeologist
United Kingdom
Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626), lawyer, philosopher; Lord Chancellor
Gavin Barwell (born 1972), Downing Street Chief of Staff under Theresa May
Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (also known as Marquess of Hartington) (1833–1908), politician
Hugh Childers (1827–1896), Australian statesman, then British Chancellor of the Exchequer
Sir Edward Coke (1552–1634), lawyer, politician; Chief Justice of the King's Bench
Sir John Coke (1563–1644), politician
John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington (1920–2005), Master of the Rolls
Hugh Elliott , UK Ambassador to Spain and Andorra
Frederick James Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale (1914–2000), British Minister
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine (1750–1823), Lord Chancellor, jurist
Vicky Ford , Conservative MP for Chelmsford
Sir Michael Foster (1836–1907), physiologist; MP (London University)
Henry Goulburn (1784–1856), Chancellor of the Exchequer
Roland Gwynne (1882–1971), politician and lover of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams
Sir William Vernon Harcourt (1827–1904), Liberal statesman; home secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer
Douglas Hurd (born 1930), Conservative politician, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe (1918–2007), statesman
Kwasi Kwarteng (born 1975), Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern (born 1927), Lord Chancellor 1987–1997
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland (also known as Lord John Manners) (1818–1906), Conservative statesman
Sir Philip Miles (1825–1888), politician
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809–1885), politician, man of letters
Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester (1656–1722), Whig statesman
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661–1715), founder of Bank of England, 1694; Chancellor of Exchequer
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718–1792), First Lord of the Admiralty ; is claimed to have invented the sandwich
George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax (1716–1771), Secretary of State
Helen Morgan , Liberal Democrat MP for North Shropshire
Ernest Noel (1831–1931), MP for Dumfries Burghs , 1874–1886
Anthony Nutting (1920–1999), politician and diplomat; Arabist
Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham (1781–1851), lawyer, Lord Chancellor , 1846–1850
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780–1863), Whig statesman
Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby (1797–1863), politician
Enoch Powell (1912–1998), statesman; Minister of Health, 1960–3
Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765–1802), Whig aristocrat
Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (1662–1748), politician and Whig Grandee
John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer (1782–1845), known as Lord Althorp; Chancellor of the Exchequer
Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826–1893), Foreign Secretary
William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw (1918–1999), statesman; Home Secretary, 1979–83
International
Richard Blumenthal (born 1946), Senior U.S. Senator from Connecticut
Puran Singh Bundela (born 1950), Indian politician
Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905–1974), 4th President of Ireland , 1973–74
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (1866–1941), administrator; Viceroy of India
Rahul Gandhi (born 1970), Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) for Wayanad and Former President of the Indian National Congress
Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey (1851–1917), Governor-General of Canada , 1904–1911
Charles Hawker (1894–1938), Australian politician
Thomas Nelson (1738–1789), signatory of the American Declaration of Independence
James Peter Obeyesekere (1915–2007), aviator and Sri Lankan minister
Allegra Spender (born 1978), Australian businesswoman and Member of Parliament for Wentworth
John Winthrop (1587/8–1649), founder and first governor of Massachusetts
Alfred Barry (1826–1920), Principal of King's College London (1868–1883), educationalist, and former Bishop of Sydney
Edward White Benson (1829–1896), Archbishop of Canterbury, 1883–1896
A. C. Bouquet (1884-1976), theologian, academic and writer
Arthur Buxton (1882–1958), Chaplain to the Forces and Rector of All Souls Church, Langham Place [1]
Matthew Blagden Hale , first Bishop of Perth; later Bishop of Brisbane, social and educational pioneer
Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828–1889), Bishop of Durham; theologian
Adam Loftus (1533–1605), Archbishop of Armargh and Dublin, Lord Chancellor of Ireland
Handley Moule (1841–1920), Bishop of Durham; theologian
Charles Perry (1807–1891), first Bishop of Melbourne
John A. T. Robinson (1919–1983) theologian; Bishop of Woolwich, Dean of Trinity
John Sanderson (c.1540–1602), priest and writer on logic
The Reverend Canon Henry Spencer Stephenson , M.A. (1871–1957), chaplain to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II
John Stott (1921–2011), Evangelical Church Leader
John Tiarks (1903–1974), Bishop of Chelmsford
Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1888), poet, Archbishop of Dublin; theorist of English Language
Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901), Canon of Westminster, Bishop of Durham
Robin Woods (1914–1997), Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Worcester
Justin Welby (born 1956), Archbishop of Canterbury
Maurice Amos , friend of Bertrand Russell and Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London
Robert Benson (1797–1844), barrister and judge
Robert Carnwath, Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill (born 1945), Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Sue Carr, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill (born 1965), Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales
Charles Sargent (1821 - 1900) Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court
Nicholas Conyngham Tindal (1776–1786), celebrated lawyer and judge
John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst (1772–1863), lawyer; Lord Chancellor 1827–1830; 1834–1835; 1841–1846
Kenelm George Digby (1890–1944), High Court judge in India
Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653), barrister, political philosopher
Sir Christopher Floyd (born 1951), Lord Justice Floyd, appointed Lord Justice of Appeal in 2013
Sir Travers Humphreys (1867–1956), judge
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (1645–1689), judge; Bloody Assizes ; Lord Chancellor
Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), legal historian
Sir Frederick Pollock (1845–1937), jurist
Sir David Richards (born 1951), judge in the High Court
Paul Sandlands (1878-1962), judge, Recorder of Birmingham
James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger (1769–1844), judge, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer
Edward Vernon Utterson (c. 1776– 1856), lawyer; one of the Six Clerks in Chancery ; literary antiquary , collector and editor
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe , Lord of Appeal in Ordinary; Justice of the Supreme Court
Humphrey Weld (of Lulworth) (1612-1685), lawyer; JP; MP; Gentleman of the Privy Chamber ; landowner and recusant
Alexander Armstrong actor, television presenter and comedian
Alexander Armstrong (born 1970), actor, television presenter and comedian, known for The Armstrong and Miller Show and hosting Pointless with Richard Osman
John Drummond (1934–2006), broadcaster, arts administrator, writer, director of BBC Proms and Radio 3
Ian Fells , energy adviser and broadcaster
Vanessa Feltz (born 1962), journalist and broadcaster
Stephen Frears (born 1941), film director
Mel Giedroyc (born 1968), comedian and television presenter; The Great British Bake Off
James Harding (born 1969), editor of The Times
Jonathan King (born 1944), pop impresario jailed for sexually abusing boys
India Knight (born 1965), author and journalist
John Lloyd (born 1951), comedy writer and television producer, known for the likes of the Blackadder series, Spitting Image , Not the Nine O'Clock News , The News Quiz and QI
Richard Osman (born 1970), television presenter and producer, co-host of Pointless
Eddie Redmayne (born 1982), Oscar -winning actor
Herbert Vivian (born 1865), writer, journalist and newspaper proprietor
Sir Isaac Newton , one of the most influential scientists of all time
James Clerk Maxwell , Scottish physicist
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902), historian
Joseph Arthur Arkwright (1864–1944), bacteriologist, FRS
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859), historian, politician, and essayist
John Haden Badley (1865–1967), educationalist, founder (1893) and headmaster (1893–1935) of Bedales School
John Bell , Professor of Law, Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Selig Brodetsky , President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
James Challis (1803–1882), astronomer; twice observed Neptune without noting it, before its discovery
Jared Diamond (born 1937), US physiologist and biogeographer, Pulitzer Prize winner
Simon Digby (1932–2010), Oriental scholar
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882–1944), astronomer
Sir James Frazer (1854–1941), anthropologist; writer, The Golden Bough
Donald M. Friedman (1929–2019), scholar of Renaissance literature at University of California, Berkeley
Sir Francis Galton (1822–1911), scientist; meteorology, heredity
Thomas Gaskell (1916-1995), oceanographer and geophysicist
Tudor Morley Griffith (1951-2011), radiologist
Christopher Grigson (1926–2001), electrical engineer and naval architect
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866–1923), Egyptologist; funded the discovery of Tutankhamun 's tomb
Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside (1901–1983), nuclear engineer; constructed Calder Hall, the first large scale reactor
Tristram Hunt (born 1974), historian and former politician
Henry Jackson (1839–1921), classicist and reformer, Vice Master, 1914
Ian Jacobs (born 1957), gynaecologist and academic
David Gwilym James (1905–1968), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton , 1952–1968
Sir Richard Jebb (1841–1905), Greek scholar
Lawrence Lessig (born 1961), leading US cyberlaw expert, founder of the Creative Commons movement, and free software advocate
Ling Wang (1917–1994), historian of science
George Campbell Macaulay (1852–1915), classical scholar
Thant Myint-U (1966-), historian
Sir Bernard Pares (1867–1956), historian in Russian history
Nicholas Patrick (born 1964), NASA astronaut
Richard Porson (1759–1808), classical scholar
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), social anthropologist
Vilayanur Ramachandran (born 1947), psychologist, neuroscientist
John Ray (1627–1705), naturalist; created the principles of plant classification
Charles Rolls (1877–1910), co-founder of Rolls-Royce ; aviator
Hugh James Rose (1795–1838), Principal of King's College London (1836–1833)
Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (1910–1990), zoologist, suspected Soviet sympathizer
J. F. Roxburgh (1888–1954), classicist, first head master of Stowe School
W.A.H. Rushton (1901–1980), physiologist, one time president of the Society for Psychical Research
Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), geologist
Cedric Smith (1917–2002), statistician and geneticist
John Maynard Smith (1920–2004), evolutionary biologist and geneticist
James Spedding (1808–1881), scholar; editor of Bacon's Works
William Fox Talbot (1800–1877), inventor of photography
John Arthur Todd (1908–1994), geometer
Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1838–1928), historian; MP; father of G. M. Trevelyan
William Thomas Tutte (1917–2002), Bletchley Park codebreaker and graph theorist
John Waterlow (1913–2010), physiologist specialising in childhood malnutrition
Tim Westoll (1919–1999), ornithologist
George Michael Wickens (1918–2006), linguist and humanities scholar
Francis Willughby (1635–1672), naturalist
Mathematicians
Srinivasa Ramanujan , Indian mathematician
Sir Michael Atiyah (1929-2019), mathematician, Fields Medal and Abel Prize winner
Charles Babbage (1791–1871), mathematician, inventor of the automated programmable computer (transferred to Peterhouse before graduating)
Martin Beale (1928–1985), applied mathematician and statistician, FRS
Hermann Bondi (1919–2005), mathematician and cosmologist
Richard Borcherds (born 1959), mathematician, Fields Medallist
Selig Brodetsky (1888–1954), mathematician, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Arthur Cayley (1821–1895), mathematician; non-Euclidean geometry , invented matrices
Sydney Chapman (1888–1970), mathematician, geophysicist; kinetic theory, geomagnetism
W. R. Dean (1896–1973), mathematician and fluid dynamicist
Sir Timothy Gowers (born 1963), mathematician, Fields Medal winner, combinatorics, Banach space
G. H. Hardy (1877–1947), mathematician; A Mathematician's Apology , analytic number theory, Savilian Professor of Geometry in Oxford
Sir James Jeans (1877–1946), astronomer, mathematician; stellar evolution
John Edensor Littlewood (1885–1977), mathematician; Fourier Series, Zeta Function, Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in Cambridge
Edward Arthur Milne (1896–1950), mathematician
Henry Wilbraham (25 July 1825 – 13 February 1883) periodic function.
Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871), mathematician; symbolic logic
Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727), mathematician, physicist; MP (Cambridge University)
John Pell (1610–1685), mathematician
Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920), mathematician; analytic number theory, elliptic integrals
John Frankland Rigby (1933–2014), a specialist in complex analysis [2]
James H. Wilkinson (1919–1986), mathematician
John William Strutt (1842-1919), The Lord Rayleigh, mathematician
Philosophers
Bertrand Russell , philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic
Simon Blackburn (born 1944), philosopher
C. D. Broad (1887–1971), philosopher
Ian Hacking (1936–2023), Canadian philosopher
J. M. E. McTaggart (1866-1925)
G. E. Moore (1873–1958), philosopher
Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930), philosopher, mathematician, economist
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), philosopher
Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900), philosopher, major proponent of women's colleges
A. N. Whitehead (1861–1947), philosopher, mathematician
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher
Physicists
Sir George Airy (1801–1895), astronomer, geophysicist
Niels Bohr (1885–1962), quantum physicist
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995), astrophysicist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics
Freeman Dyson (1923–2020), physicist, proponent of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence , Templeton Prize winner
Thomas Eckersley (1886–1959), theoretical physicist and expert on radio waves
Otto Frisch (1904–1979), nuclear physicist; first used the term 'nuclear fission'
Louis Harold Gray (1905–1965), invented the field of radiobiology; namesake of unit of absorbed dose Gray
J. B. Gunn (1928–2008), physicist; inventor of the Gunn diode
Thomas Gold (1920–2004), astrophysicist
Brian Josephson (born 1940), physicist; predicted the Josephson effect
James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), physicist; electromagnetism
William George Penney (1909–1991), nuclear physicist
John Polkinghorne (1930–2021), physicist, religious thinker, Templeton Prize winner
Rajendran Raja (1948-2014), high-energy particle physicist who played a key role in the discovery of the top quark [3]
Martin Ryle (1918–1984), radio astronomer; invented aperture synthesis
Dennis William Sciama (1926–1999), physicist; played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886–1975), physicist, mathematician; fluid dynamics, crystals
Sir George Paget Thomson (1892–1975), physicist; electron diffraction
Sir Peter Williams , physicist
Lord Tennyson , poet
Lord Byron , poet
Muhammad Iqbal , Islamic poet and philosopher
A. A. Milne , writer, author of Winnie the Pooh children's novels
Clive Bell (1881–1964), art and literary critic; husband of Vanessa
Charles Astor Bristed (1820–1874), American author and scholar
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788–1824), poet; "She Walks in Beauty", Don Juan
Edward Hallet Carr (1892–1982), writer and international relations theorist
Erskine Childers (1870–1922), writer, Irish Nationalist; The Riddle of the Sands
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), poet, dramatist – The Mistress
George Crabbe (1754–1832), poet; did not matriculate
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), writer, poet, occultist, and 'Magician'; Magick in Theory and Practice
Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), playwright; The Brothers , The West Indian
Warwick Deeping (1877–1950), novelist
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1566–1601), soldier, courtier to Elizabeth I ; executed for rebellion
John Dryden (1631–1700), Poet Laureate; "Absalom and Achitophel"; translator of Virgil
Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883), poet; Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Giles Fletcher (1588–1623), poet; "Christ's Victory" and "Triumph"
George Gascoigne (1525–1577), poet, dramatist; "Jocasta", "The Glasse of Government"
Edmund Gosse (1845–1928), poet, critic; On Viol and Flute
Thom Gunn (1929–2004), Modernist poet
George Herbert (1593–1633), poet
Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859), poet, critic
A. E. Housman (1859–1936), poet, classical scholar
Henry Hyndman (1842–1921), English writer and politician
Muhammad Iqbal (1875–1938), Islamic poet and philosopher
Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1861–1938), poet, historian and senior civil servant
Nathaniel Lee (1649–1692), dramatist; The Rival Queens
John Lehmann (1907–1987), poet, man of letters; inaugurated The London Magazine
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873), novelist; The Last Days of Pompeii ; politician
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), poet; "Horatian Ode", "The Rehearsal Transpros'd"; MP (Hull)
Frederick Maurice (1805–1872), theologian, writer, Christian Socialist
A. A. Milne (1882–1956), writer; Winnie-the-Pooh
Nicholas Monsarrat (1910–1979), novelist; The Cruel Sea , Three Corvettes
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian and English novelist; Lolita
Lenrie Peters (1932–2009), Gambian novelist, poet and educationist
Thomas Randolph (1605–1635), poet, dramatist
T. J. Cobden Sanderson (1840–1922), bookbinder; Arts and Crafts Movement pioneer
Sir Henry Spelman (1562–1641), antiquary; Reliquiae Spelmannianae
Lytton Strachey (1880–1932), biographer; Eminent Victorians ; Bloomsbury Group
Sir John Suckling (1609–1642), poet, dramatist
Tom Taylor (1817–1880), Scottish dramatist; editor of Punch
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809–1892), poet – "Maud", "In Memoriam"
William M. Thackeray (1811–1863), novelist; Vanity Fair , Henry Esmond (dropped out after second year)
Sir George Trevelyan, 4th Baronet (1906–1996), educator, new age thinker and writer
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628–1687), wit, politician, dramatist; The Rehearsal ; member of the 'Cabal '
Raymond Williams (1921–1988), Marxist critic, novelist; The Country and the City
Leonard Woolf (1880–1969), writer; husband of Virginia Woolf; Bloomsbury Group
Geoffrey Winthrop Young (1876–1958), mountaineer and author
George 'Gubby' Allen (1902–1989), cricketer – captained England; played in Bodyline series
Sir George Branson (1871–1951), Cambridge rowing blue and High Court judge[4]
Wing Commander Alan Cassidy MBE, born 1949. Trinity, 1967. National Aerobatic Champion, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003.
Harry Chester Goodhart (1858–1895), twice FA Cup winner and England international footballer; Professor of Humanities at Edinburgh University [5]
Imogen Grant , world and Olympic champion rower
Geoffrey Hopley , cricketer
Dar Lyon (1898–1964), first class cricketer; Chief Justice of the Seychelles
Philip Morton (1857–1925), cricketer and schoolmaster[6] [7]
Sir Peter Scott (1909–1989), artist, ornithologist; Olympic sailor (1936)
Rev. Henry Holmes Stewart (1847–1937), FA Cup winner in 1873[8]
Charles Plumpton Wilson (1859–1938), England footballer and Rugby player
H. de Winton , created the first formal set of rules for Association football (The Cambridge Rules )
Maxwell Woosnam (1892–1965), Olympic and Wimbledon lawn tennis champion and England national football team captain
Andy Whittall , Zimbabwe cricketer
Kim Philby , Soviet spy
Francis Martineau Lupton , Businessman, landowner and politician
Norman Blackwell, Baron Blackwell , (born 1952), businessman and politician
Sir Andrew Thomas Cahn (born 1951), Vice Chairman for Public Policy of Nomura Group ; former CEO of UK Trade & Investment
Alfred Clayton Cole (1854–1920), Governor of the Bank of England
Sanjeev Gupta (born 1971), businessman
Sir Robin Ibbs (1926–2014), banker
David Layton (1914–2009), National Coal Board economist and industrial relations advisor
Francis Martineau Lupton (1848-1921), businessman, landowner, politician and great-great-grandfather of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge [9] [10]
Sir Michael Adrian Richards (born 1951), former UK National Cancer Director; Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Care Quality Commission , from May 2013
Rod Smallwood (born 1950), co-manager of Iron Maiden and co-founder of Sanctuary Records
Andy Taylor (born 1951), co-manager of Iron Maiden and co-founder of Sanctuary Records
John Tusa (born 1936), managing director of BBC World Service
Neville Wadia (1911–1996), Bombay industrialist and philanthropist
Simon Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise (born 1967), CEO of Next plc
Christopher Alexander (1936–2022), architect, author of The Timeless Way of Building and father of the design patterns movement
Edward Chancellor , investment strategist and financial historian
Hubert Chesshyre , retired British officer of arms found to have committed child sexual abuse[11]
Terry Eagleton (born 1943), literary critic
Nathaniel Eaton (1609–1674), first schoolmaster at Harvard
James Clerk Maxwell Garnett CBE (1880–1958), educationist, barrister, and peace campaigner
Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh (1878–1962), Indian Civil Service officer
Antony Gormley (born 1950), sculptor, best known for Angel of the North 1968–71
Stephen Greenhalgh (born 1967), Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime in London[12]
Michael Gurstein (1944–2017), Canadian community informatician
Peter Llewellyn Gwynn-Jones (1940–2010), Garter Principal King of Arms , 1995–2010
Sir Stuart Milner-Barry (1906–1995), chess player, World War II codebreaker and civil servant
William Smith O'Brien (1803–1864), Irish Nationalist
Baron Kishichiro Okura (1882–1963), Japanese playboy and motor racing enthusiast
St. John Philby (1885–1960), explorer of Arabia; father of Kim
Alexander Ramsay of Mar (1919–2001), great-grandson of Queen Victoria
Sir Benegal Narsing Rau (1887–1952), Indian Civil Service officer
Robert Vane Russell (1873-1915), Indian Civil Service officer and writer
Anthony and Peter Shaffer (born 1926; Anthony died 2001, Peter died 2016), dramatists
John Sowerby (1823-1902), botanist, writer and early member of the Alpine Club
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924), composer, organist
Thomas Francis Wade (1818–1895), diplomat; developed a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese that formed the basis for the Wade–Giles system
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), composer; Sea Symphony , Pilgrim's Progress
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'Mr. P. H. Morton' (obituary) in The Times , issue 43964 dated 18 May 1925, p. 21 Warsop, Keith (2004). The Early FA Cup Finals and the Southern Amateurs . SoccerData. pp. 126–127. ISBN 1-899468-78-1 . Walker, T. (4 June 2014). "Kate's Family Tree" . UK Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 10 July 2019 . Kate's great-great- grandfather was Francis Martineau Lupton, a politician himself, and his first cousin was the Birmingham lord mayor Sir Thomas Martineau, a friend of Queen Victoria. Sir Thomas's nephew was Neville Chamberlain.