# List of alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge

Christ's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England. Its alumni include politicians, lawyers, bishops, poets, and academics.
Among politicians, the college's alumni include heads of government (Jan Smuts of South Africa and John Kotelawala of Sri Lanka), as well as several parliamentarians from various countries. Notable scientists, including Charles Darwin and J. Robert Oppenheimer, as well as Nobel laureate Duncan Haldane have studied at the college. Sportspersons associated with the college include several Olympic medalists.

## Alumni

The sub-headings are given as a general guide and some names might fit under more than one category.
Abbreviations used in the following tables
* DNG – Did not graduate: left the college without taking a degree
Degree abbreviations
* Undergraduate degree: BA – Bachelor of Arts
* Postgraduate degrees:
** MA – Master of Arts
** MPhil – Master of Philosophy

### Arts

* Name
* Anthony Caro
* Tom de Freston
* Phillip King

### Business

* Name
* Ian Cheshire
* Jonathan Galassi
* David Ross Granger
* Yusuf Hamied
* Mike Lynch
* Martin Sorrell

### Humanities and social sciences

| Name | Degree | Notability |
| J. W. Burrow | | Historian |
| Percy Gardner | BA 1869 | |
| Harinath De | | Indologist, polyglot |
| John Leland | | Antiquary |
| Madhavan_K._Palat | | Historian |
| John H. Plumb | | Historian |
| Roy Porter | | Historian |
| John Holland Rose | | Historian |
| John Robert Seeley | | Historian |
| Walter William Skeat | | Philologist |
| William Robertson Smith | | Orientalist, Old Testament scholar, professor of divinity |
| Taw Sein Ko | | Burmese archaeologist |

### Religion

| Name | Notability |
| Frederick Cornwallis | Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Richard Cheyney | Bishop of Gloucester |
| Jill Duff | Bishop of Lancaster |
| Edmund Grindal | Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Matthew Hutton | Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Thomas Jones | Archbishop of Dublin |
| Edmund Law | Bishop of Carlisle |
| William Paley | |
| Hugh Thomas (priest) | |
| Armitage Robinson | |
| William Pope (priest) | |

### Politicians, civil servants, royalty and nobility

| Name | Notability |
| Anandamohan Bose | Indian nationalist, President of the Indian National Congress |
| Sam Carling | MP for North West Cambridgeshire |
| James Chuter Ede | |
| Cuthbert Ellison | MP for Newcastle |
| Henry Finch | MP for Canterbury |
| James FitzGerald | |
| William Grimston | MP |
| John Healy | MP |
| John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire | Lord Lieutenant of Ireland |
| Sir John Jardine, 1st Baronet | MP for Roxburghshire |
| Heng Swee Keat | Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore |
| Lim Hng Kiang | Singaporean politician; Minister for Trade and Industry |
| John Kotelawala | Prime Minister of Ceylon |
| Manmath Chandra Mallik | Barrister, writer, and Liberal Party politician |
| Thomas Nelson Jr. | Governor of Virginia |
| Zeid bin Ra'ad | Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations |
| Jan Smuts | Prime Minister of South Africa |
| Sir William Spring, 2nd Baronet | MP for Suffolk |
| Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham | Foreign Secretary |
| Thomas White | MP for East Retford |
| Walter Wren | |
| Oliver Wright | |
| Ra'ad bin Zeid | |

### Judges

| Name | Notability |
| Mian Abdul Rashid | Chief Justice of Pakistan |
| Mahomed Hameed Ullah Khan | Chief Justice of Hyderabad State |

### Science, technology, and mathematics

| Name | Degree | Notability |
| John George Adami | | |
| Charles Alfred Barber | | |
| Jagdish Chandra Bose | BA 1884 | Indian polymath; Known for his contributions to botany and microwave radio optics |
| John Clark | | British geneticist |
| Charles Darwin | | English naturalist and biologist; Known for describing the theory of evolution |
| Francis Darwin | | |
| C. J. Eliezer | PhD | |
| Martin Evans | | British biologist; Nobel laureate |
| Duncan Haldane | | British physicist; Nobel laureate |
| E. W. Hobson | | |
| Leon Isserlis | | |
| Archibald Liversidge | | British chemist and mineralogist |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | DNG | American theoretical physicist; Known as the "father of the atomic bomb" |
| Arthur Shipley | | British zoologist |
| Harry Marshall Ward | BA 1879; MA 1883; ScD 1892 | British botanist, mycologist, and plant pathologist |

### Sportspersons

| Name | Notability |
| Paul Bircher | British rower; Olympic silver medalist |
| Richard Hutton | British cricketer |
| Gilbert Jessop | British cricketer |
| Tony Lewis | British cricketer and rugby player; Later sports journalist and president of the Marylebone Cricket Club |
| Steve Palmer | British footballer |
| David Robertson | British rugby union and golf player; Olympic bronze medalist |
| Reggie Schwarz | South African cricketer |
| Swaranjit Singh | Indian cricketer |
| Kieran West | British rower; Olympic gold medalist |
| William Windham | British rower |

### Others

| Name | Notability |
| George Augustus Auden | |
| Walter Besant | Novelist and historian |
| Frederic Chase | |
| John Wesley Hales | |
| John Scandrett Harford | Artist, abolitionist, and High Sheriff of Cardiganshire |