page_title: List of alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
section_title: Academics and scientists
hierarchical_section_title: List of alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge / Academics and scientists
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Isaac Newton (1642-1727).This a copy of a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller (1689). Español: Retrato de Isaac Newton (1642-1727), quien entre otras cosas fuera presidente de la Royal Society entre 1703 y 1727. Français&#160;: Portrait d'Isaac Newton (1642-1727).Il sagit d'une copie d'une peinture de Sir Godfrey Kneller (1689).
context_page_description: This is a list of notable alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge. Note that some of the alumni noted hereafter are connected to Trinity through honorary degrees. Not all studied at the College.
context_section_description: 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
  Sir Francis Galton (1822–1911), scientist; meteorology, heredity
  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
  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
caption: Sir Isaac Newton, one of the most influential scientists of all time
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