# List of alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge

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.

## Politicians
### 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, former 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; politician
* 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

## Royalty

* King Charles III (born 1948)
* King Edward VII (1841–1910), reigned 1901–1910
* King George VI (1895–1952), reigned 1936–1952
* Prince Ranjitsinhji (1872–1933), cricketer; Indian prince
* Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974), British prince
* Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864-1892), British prince
* Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776-1834), British prince

## Clergy

* 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
* 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 (2013-25)

## Law and justice

* 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
* Lord Richards (born 1951), Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
* 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

## Media and journalists

* 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
* Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, journalist and writer
* 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

## Academics and scientists

* 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
* Kate Marvel, American climate scientist
* 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

* 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
* James H. Wilkinson (1919–1986), mathematician
* John William Strutt (1842-1919), The Lord Rayleigh, mathematician

### Philosophers

* 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
* 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
* Jamal Nazrul Islam ( mathematical physicist and cosmologist)

## Writers

* 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

## Sports

* George 'Gubby' Allen (1902–1989), cricketer – captained England; played in Bodyline series
* Sir George Branson (1871–1951), Cambridge rowing blue and High Court judge
* 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
* 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
* Sir Peter Scott (1909–1989), artist, ornithologist; Olympic sailor (1936)
* Rev. Henry Holmes Stewart (1847–1937), FA Cup winner in 1873
* 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

## Spies

* Anthony Blunt (1907–1983), Soviet spy; art historian
* Guy Burgess (1910–1963), Soviet spy and traitor
* John Cairncross (1913-1995), double agent; communist
* Nicholas Elliott (1916-1994), British spy
* Michael Greenberg (1914–1992), Foreign Affairs Economist U.S. Foreign Economic Administration; Soviet spy
* Kim Philby (1911–1988), double agent; communist
* Michael Whitney Straight (1916–2004), US magazine publisher, presidential speechwriter, Soviet spy

## Business

* 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
* 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
* 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

## Military

* Brigadier-General Charles Strathavon Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby (1870–1949), soldier
* James Yorke Scarlett (1799–1871), British general and hero of the Crimean War
* David Stirling (1915–1990), founder of the Special Air Service

## Others

* 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
* 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
* 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
* Thomas Frith, quizzer, TV personality
* 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
* Arthur Henry Hallam (1811-1833), poet, firm friend of Tennyson, and subject of In Memoriam
* Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), composer; Sea Symphony, Pilgrim's Progress