# List of alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge

This is a list of alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
* M. H. Abrams – literary theorist and critic
* J. R. Ackerley – writer and poet
* Simon Ambrose – winner of The Apprentice (Season 3)
* Richard Atkinson – Bishop of Bedford
* Giles Baring – cricketer
* Simon Barrington-Ward – Bishop of Coventry (1985–1997)
* Peter Beck – soldier and schoolmaster
* Henry Bellingham, Baron Bellingham – Member of Parliament for North West Norfolk; former junior minister at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
* A. C. Benson – librettist of Land of Hope and Glory
* Michael Binyon – foreign correspondent for The Times; now Leader Writer
* Patrick Blackett – Nobel Prize-winning physicist
* Sir Nicholas Blake – Judge of the High Court of Justice
* Norman Blake – Middle English and Early Modern English language and literature scholar
* Sir John Boardman – archaeologist, Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology
* John Bromley – 17th-century Catholic convert and translator of The Catechism for the Curats, composed by the Decree of the Council of Trent, faithfully translated into English (London 1687)
* Charles Vyner Brooke – last White Rajah of Sarawak
* Sir Simon Bryan – Judge of the High Court of Justice
* Anthony Bull – transport engineer
* David Burghley – gold medalist of the 1928 Olympic Games in 400m hurdles
* Clemency Burton-Hill – broadcaster, novelist, journalist, and violinist
* Anthony Caesar – English priest and composer
* Sir David Calcutt – former Master and barrister
* Henry Chadwick KBE – former head of Christ Church, Oxford
* Sir John Chadwick – Lord Justice of Appeal
* H. K. Chainani – Chief Justice of Bombay High Court
* Greg Clark – Member of Parliament for Tunbridge Wells; former Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and former President of the Board of Trade
* Arthur Cohen – lawyer and Liberal politician; first Jewish graduate of Cambridge University
* Peter Cowie – film historian
* Stella Creasy – Member of Parliament for Walthamstow
* Joe Crowley – TV presenter and broadcast journalist
* Robyn Curnow – South African journalist and news anchor
* Kulada Charan Das Gupta – Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court
* Katie Derham – TV newsreader
* Simon Doggart – Cambridge cricketer and a co-abuser in the Church of England John Smyth abuse of young men scandal
* Monty Don – gardener
* William Donaldson – creator of Henry Root
* Henry Dunster – first president of Harvard University
* William Empson – literary critic and poet
* Julian Fellowes – actor and Academy Award-winning screenwriter
* Eric Fernihough – Brooklands and world motorcycle speed record holder
* Peter Fudakowski – Academy Award-winning film producer
* Bamber Gascoigne – TV presenter, University Challenge
* Robin Warwick Gibson – former Chief Curator of National Portrait Gallery, London; art historian & writer
* Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester – member of the British Royal Family
* Prince William of Gloucester – member of the British Royal Family
* Maurice Goldhaber – American physicist
* Siram Govindarajulu – founding vice-chancellor of Sri Venkateswara University
* David Grainger – British venture capitalist
* Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg – British politician and colonial administrator; older brother of Robert
* Sir Robert Grant – British lawyer, politician, and hymnist; younger brother of Charles
* Sir Christopher Greenwood QC – Judge of the International Court of Justice (2009-2018)
* Antony Grey – pioneer in gay rights activism
* Loyd Grossman – chef, musician, television presenter, sauce maker
* Karl W. Gruenberg – British mathematician
* Sir Norman Hartnell – couturier and dressmaker to the Queen
* Abdul Khalek Hassouna – Egyptian politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the Arab League
* Gavin Hastings OBE – international rugby sportsperson
* Julian Haviland – former Political Editor of ITN and The Times
* Nick Herbert – Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs; former Minister of State for Justice
* Adam Holloway – Member of Parliament for Gravesham
* Sir Antony Jay – co-screenwriter of Yes Minister
* Richard Johnson – first chaplain to Australia
* Igor Judge, Baron Judge – Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (2008–2013)
* Akhtar Hameed Khan – social scientist
* Charles Kingsley – author of The Water Babies and Regius Professor of Modern History
* R. F. Kuang – author; Hugo Award-winning Chinese American fantasy writer of Babel and The Poppy War; known also for Yellowface
* Charles La Trobe – first lieutenant-governor of Victoria, Australia
* Lewis H. Lapham – American writer; editor of Lapham's Quarterly; former editor of Harper's Magazine
* Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory – air vice marshal at the Battle of Britain
* Chris Lintott – astrophysicist
* Selwyn Lloyd – former Foreign Secretary; Chancellor of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Commons
* Mark Malloch Brown – former United Nations Deputy Secretary-General and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
* George Mallory – mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s
* William Mann – music critic on The Times (1948–1982)
* John Manningham – sixteenth- and seventeenth-century diarist, lawyer; noted for recording details of an original performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
* Kingsley Martin – journalist
* Tristan McConnell – journalist
* John McPhee – Pulitzer Prize-winning writer
* Sir Samuel Morland – diplomat, spy, inventor, mathematician
* Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin – former president of the International Olympic Committee
* Roger Morris – electrical engineer
* Sir Andrew Morritt – Chancellor of the High Court of Justice
* Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II – current Kabaka of Buganda
* Sir Edward Frederick Mutesa II – former Kabaka of Buganda and President of Uganda
* Mike Newell – film director of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
* Adam Nicolson – historian and author, son of Nigel Nicolson and grandson of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
* Charles Kay Ogden – literary critic
* Sir Jonathan Parker – Lord Justice of Appeal
* Charles Stewart Parnell (did not graduate) – Irish nationalist
* Samuel Pepys – naval administrator, MP, and diarist
* Allen Dain Percival CBE – musician and composer; Principal of the Guildhall School of Music; executive chairman of Stainer & Bell
* Sir Simon Picken – Judge of the High Court of Justice
* Ardal Powell – maker and player of historical flutes
* Francis Pym – former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
* Michael Ramsey – Archbishop of Canterbury
* Julian Rathbone – English novelist and Booker Prize-shortlisted author
* Sir Michael Redgrave – actor
* Jon Ridgeon – former British Olympic athlete and current CEO of World Athletics (2018–present)
* I. A. Richards – literary critic
* Alan Rusbridger – editor of The Guardian
* Warren Sach – United Nations executive
* Sir Frederic Salusbury – editor of the Daily Herald
* Rina Sawayama – singer
* Nicholas Shakespeare – novelist
* Charles Shaughnessy, 5th Baron Shaughnessy – British actor
* John Simpson – journalist
* Nicholas Snowman – arts administrator and chairman of the jewellers Wartski
* Sir Christopher Staughton – Lord Justice of Appeal
* John Young Stratton – author, essayist, social reformer and campaigner against rural poverty
* Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder – Marshal of the Royal Air Force, World War II
* John Tedder, 2nd Baron Tedder – Professor of Chemistry; expert in free radical chemistry
* Nanavira Thera – Buddhist monk
* Charit Tingsabadh – Thai economist
* John Treasure – advertising executive
* Philip Vellacott – classical scholar
* Roger Vignoles – concert pianist and accompanist
* Rob Wainwright – international rugby player
* Geoffrey Webb – art historian
* Geoffrey Whitney – sixteenth-century poet and emblematist
* Wong Yan-lung – Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong