List of Clare College people

Former students

• Desmond Ackner, Baron Ackner
  Desmond Ackner, Baron Ackner
  Desmond James Conrad Ackner, Baron Ackner, PC, QC was a British judge and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.-Early life:...
  
  , British judge and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
  Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
  Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, commonly known as Law Lords, were appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 to the House of Lords of the United Kingdom in order to exercise its judicial functions, which included acting as the highest court of appeal for most domestic matters...
  
  
• Sir Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan Philanthropist and Business Magnate
• Peter Ackroyd
  Peter Ackroyd
  Peter Ackroyd CBE is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More he won the Somerset Maugham Award...
  
  , author
• Robyn Addison
  Robyn Addison
  Robyn Addison is a British actress.Robyn Addison is best known for her roles in television series such as the 2008 re-makeof Survivors and Casualty.She has numerous other television drama and theatre credits.-Background:...
  
  , actor, played Sarah Boyer in Survivors
  Survivors (2008 TV Series)
  Survivors is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC. It depicts the lives of a group of people who survived a virulent strain of heretofore unknown influenza which has wiped out most of the human race...
  
  and Joanne Coldwell in Casualty
  Casualty (TV series)
  Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
  
  , appeared in episodes of The Street
  The Street (TV series)
  The Street is a British television drama series created by Jimmy McGovern and produced by Granada Television for the BBC. The series follows the lives of various residents of an unnamed street in Manchester and features an all-star cast including Timothy Spall, Jim Broadbent, Jane Horrocks, Bob...
  
  and Dalziel and Pascoe
  Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC TV series)
  Dalziel and Pascoe is a popular British television crime drama based on the Dalziel and Pascoe books by Reginald Hill, which was first broadcast in March 1996. It is set in Yorkshire, and is about two detectives...
  
  
• Immad Akhund
  Immad Akhund
  Immad Akhund is a British entrepreneur who is best known as the CEO and co-founder of social gaming company, Heyzap. Akhund grew up in Harrow, London and attended Nower Hill High School, Middlesex and Dr Challoner's Grammar School in Amersham, Buckinghamshire...
  
  , Internet entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of Heyzap
  Heyzap
  Heyzap is a social discovery platform for mobile and online games and the largest social network for mobile gamers. Heyzap is based in San Francisco and was founded in 2009 by Jude Gomila and Immad Akhund. Heyzap provides users with a way to check-in to their favorite games, discover games and join...
  
  
• Anthony Appiah, philosopher
• Sir Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby of Brandon, botanist and natural scientist, Master of the College 1959-1967, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
   1967-1969, founded Clare Hall, Cambridge
• Peter Asprey, choral director, founded Ensemble Illuminati, Jubal Ensemble and Stile Antico
• Edward Atkinson, Master of the College 1856-1915, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
   1862-1863
• Sheldon Amos
  Sheldon Amos
  Sheldon Amos was an English juristSheldon Amos was the son of Andrew Amos. He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar as a member of the Middle Temple in 1862. He was invited by F. D. Maurice to teach at The Working Men's College, with fellow Cambridge graduates and...
  
   (1835–1886), English jurist
• Sir David Attenborough
  David Attenborough
  Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS, FSA is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years...
  
  , naturalist
• John Fleetwood Baker, Baron Baker of Windrush, scientist and engineer, Professor of Mechanical Sciences
  Professor of Engineering, Cambridge University
  The Professorship of Engineering is a professorship at the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1875 as a chair in 'Mechanism and Applied Mechanics', it was renamed to 'Mechanical Sciences' in 1934, and to 'Engineering' in 1966....
  
   (latterly renamed Professor of Engineering) at the University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
  , 1943-1970
• Amiya Charan Banerjee
  Amiya Charan Banerjee
  Amiya Charan Banerjee was a mathematician and educator popularly known as A.C.Banerjee or simply as Professor Banerjee.-Family background:...
  
  , mathematician, Vice-Chancellor of Allahabad University
  Allahabad University
  Allahabad University , is a premier Central University located in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Its origins lie in the Muir Central College, named after Lt...
  
   1953-1955
• Nicholas Bannan, specialist in choral singing and music education
• Sabine Baring-Gould
  Sabine Baring-Gould
  The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1240 publications, though this list continues to grow. His family home, Lew Trenchard Manor near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it...
  
  , Victorian novelist
• John Barret
  John Barret (divine)
  John Barret was a prominent English Presbyterian divine and writer on religion.-Training:Barret was born in Nottingham in 1631 and admitted in 1646 to Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1650. He went on to be ordained at Wymeswold, Leicestershire by the Wirksworth classis in 1652...
  
   (1646-1650), Presbyterian divine and religious writer
• M. A. Bayfield
  M. A. Bayfield
  Matthew Albert Bayfield was an English classical scholar, author, headmaster, clergyman and spiritualist. Bayfield is best known for his commentaries on classical Greek texts as well his writing on the subject of poetry. His works include The Measures Of The Poets and A Study of Shakespeare's...
  
   (1852-1922), classical scholar, author, headmaster, clergyman and spiritualist
• Meredith Belbin
  Meredith Belbin
  Meredith Belbin is a British researcher and management theorist, best known for his work on management teams. He is a visiting professor and Honorary Fellow of Henley Management College in Oxfordshire, England.-Early Life and Work:...
  
  , management theorist
• Sir Max Bemrose
  Max Bemrose
  Sir John Maxwell Bemrose , known as Sir Max Bemrose, was an English industrialist, politician, and county officer for Derbyshire.-Early life:...
  
  , industrialist
• John Berryman
  John Berryman
  John Allyn Berryman was an American poet and scholar, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and was considered a key figure in the Confessional school of poetry...
  
  , American poet
• Samuel Blythe, Master of the College 1678-1713, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
   1684-1685, benefactor
• Ivor Bolton
  Ivor Bolton
  Ivor Bolton is an English conductor and harpsichordist. He studied at Clare College and at the Royal College of Music...
  
  , conductor and musical director, founded the St James's Baroque Players, founder and Musical Director of the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music
  Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music
  The Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music is an annual music festival held in London.- History :The London-based Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music was founded in 1984 by the conductor Ivor Bolton and musicologist Tess Knighton, who was also its Artistic Director until 1997. Kate Bolton was...
  
  , regular conductor at the Bavarian State Opera
  Bavarian State Opera
  The Bavarian State Opera is an opera company based in Munich, Germany.Its orchestra is the Bavarian State Orchestra.- History:The opera company which was founded under Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy has been in existence since 1653...
  
  , Principal Conductor of the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg
  Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg
  The Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra is the symphony orchestra of the town and state of Salzburg, Austria. It was founded in 1841 and acquired its current name in 1908. It is a major participant at the Salzburg Festival....
  
  
• Sir John Boyd
  John Boyd (ambassador)
  Sir John Dixon Ikle Boyd KCMG was the master of Churchill College, Cambridge from 1996 to 2006. He has also been the British ambassador to Japan, between 1992 and 1996....
  
  , Master of Churchill College, Cambridge
  Churchill College, Cambridge
  Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.In 1958, a Trust was established with Sir Winston Churchill as its Chairman of Trustees, to build and endow a college for 60 fellows and 540 Students as a national and Commonwealth memorial to Winston Churchill; its...
  
   1996-2006
• Harvey Brough, musician and composer, founded Harvey and the Wallbangers
• David Cannadine
  David Cannadine
  Sir David Nicholas Cannadine, FBA is a British historian, known for a number of books, including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy and Ornamentalism. He is also notable as a commentator and broadcaster on British public life, especially the monarchy. He serves as the generaleditor...
  
  , historian
• Clive Carey
  Clive Carey
  Francis Clive Savill Carey CBE , known as Clive Carey, was a British baritone, singing teacher, composer, opera producer and folk song collector.-Biography:Clive Carey was born at Sible Hedingham, Essex in 1883...
  
  , baritone and composer
• Hector Munro Chadwick
  Hector Munro Chadwick
  Hector Munro Chadwick was an English philologist and historian, professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge . He helped develop an integral approach to Old English studies. With his wife, Nora Kershaw Chadwick, he compiled a multi-volume survey of oral traditions and oral poetry,...
  
  , philologist and historian, Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
  Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
  The Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon is the senior professorship in Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge.The chair was founded in 1878 when an earlier gift from Joseph Bosworth, Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, had increased in value sufficiently to support...
  
   at the University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
   1912-1941
• Granville Coghlan
  Granville Coghlan
  Granville Boyle Coghlan was an educationalist and an early twentieth century rugby union international who is known as one of the “lost lions” due to his participation on the 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina which, although retrospectively recognised as a Lions tour, did not confer test status...
  
  , rugby union international, represented Great Britain
  British and Irish Lions
  The British and Irish Lions is a rugby union team made up of players from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales...
  
   on 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina
  1927 British Lions tour to Argentina
  -Touring party:*Manager: James "Bim" Baxter-Results:-References:...
  
   (1907-1983)
• Nicholas Collon
  Nicholas Collon
  Nicholas Collon is a British Conductor who holds the position of Principal Conductor of Aurora Orchestra. A viola player, pianist and organist by training, Nicholas studied at Clare College, Cambridge...
  
  , musician, co-founded Aurora Orchestra
  Aurora Orchestra
  Aurora Orchestra is a British chamber orchestra founded in 2005 by conductors Nicholas Collon and Robin Ticciati.It is based in Kings Place, London and at LSO St Luke's....
  
   and Cappella Artois
• Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
  Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
  Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis KG , styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as The Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator...
  
  , British general in the American Revolutionary War
  American Revolutionary War
  The American Revolutionary War , the American War of Independence, or simply the Revolutionary War, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers.The war was the result of the...
  
  
• Christian Coulson
  Christian Coulson
  Christian Coulson is an English actor best known for playing Tom Marvolo Riddle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.-Early life:...
  
  , actor
• Robert Court, Head Master of Birkdale School
  Birkdale School
  Birkdale School is a Christian public school for boys in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire in England, and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference...
  
  
• Ralph Cudworth
  Ralph Cudworth
  Ralph Cudworth was an English philosopher, the leader of the Cambridge Platonists.-Life:Born at Aller, Somerset, he was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, gaining his MA and becoming a Fellow of Emmanuel in 1639. In 1645, he became master of Clare Hall and professor of Hebrew...
  
  , philosopher and theologian, leader of the Cambridge Platonists
  Cambridge Platonists
  The Cambridge Platonists were a group of philosophers at Cambridge University in the middle of the 17th century .- Programme :...
  
  , Master of the College 1644-1650, Regius Professor of Hebrew
  Regius Professor of Hebrew
  The Regius Professorship of Hebrew, founded by Henry VIII, is a professorship at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities.- List of Regius Professors of Hebrew at Cambridge :...
  
   at the University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
   1645-1688
• David Derbyshire, Daily Mail
  Daily Mail
  The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...
  
   journalist.
• Sir Ernest De Silva, Sri Lankan philanthropist
• Richard Egarr
  Richard Egarr
  Richard Egarr is a British keyboard performer and conductor. He received his musical training as a choirboy at York Minster, at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, and as organ scholar at Clare College, Cambridge...
  
  , harpsichordist and fortepianist, Musical Director of the Academy of Ancient Music
  Academy of Ancient Music
  The Academy of Ancient Music is a period-instrument orchestra based in Cambridge, England. Founded by harpsichordist Christopher Hogwood in 1973, it was named after a previous organisation of the same name of the 18th century. The musicians play on either original instruments or modern copies of...
  
  
• Merrick Elderton
  Merrick Elderton
  Merrick Beaufoy Elderton was an English cricketer and educator. Elderton was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Brentford, Middlesex....
  
   (1884-1939), cricketer and educator
• Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
  Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
  Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton was a German-born British historian, who specialized in the Tudor period.- Upbringing :...
  
  , historian of the Tudor period, Regius Professor of Modern History
  Regius Professor of Modern History (Cambridge)
  Regius Professor of Modern History is one of the senior professorships in history at Cambridge University. It was founded in 1724 by George I. The appointment is by Royal Warrant on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of the day...
  
   at the University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
   1983-1988
• Nicholas Ferrar
  Nicholas Ferrar
  Nicholas Ferrar was an English scholar, courtier, businessman and man of religion. Ordained deacon in the Church of England, he retreated with his extended family to the manor of Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire, where he lived the rest of his life.-Early life:Nicholas Ferrar was born in London,...
  
  , religious leader
• Gavin Ferris, co-founder of Radioscape
• Mansfield Duval Forbes, historian, archivist and benefactor
• Trent Ford
  Trent Ford
  Trent Ford is a British-American actor and model.-Biography:Ford was born in Akron, Ohio to a US Navy test pilot father and an English mother from Birmingham...
  
  , American actor and model
• Sir Michael Le Fanu
  Michael Le Fanu
  Admiral of the Fleet Sir Michael Le Fanu GCB, DSC was a Royal Navy admiral and First Sea Lord.-Early life:Le Fanu was born at Lindfield, West Sussex, the son of Captain Hugh Barrington le Fanu RN...
  
  , Admiral of the Fleet of the Royal Navy
  Royal Navy
  The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
  
  
• Henry Louis Gates, African-American academic
• Sir Paul Girvan
  Paul Girvan (judge)
  Sir Frederick Paul Girvan, styled Rt Hon Lord Justice Girvan was educated at Larne Grammar School, Belfast Royal Academy, Clare College, Cambridge and Queen's University, Belfast....
  
  , Lord Justice of Appeal
  Lord Justice of Appeal
  A Lord Justice of Appeal is an ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, the court that hears appeals from the High Court of Justice, and represents the second highest level of judge in the courts of England and Wales-Appointment:...
  
  , Supreme Court of Northern Ireland
• Sir Harry Godwin FRS
  Harry Godwin
  Sir Harry Godwin FRS, was a prominent English botanist and ecologist of the 20th century. He had a long association with Clare College, Cambridge.-Early life:...
  
  , botanist and ecologist, Professor, founded the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research in the University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
  
• Patrick Gowers
  Patrick Gowers
  William Patrick Gowers is an English composer mainly known for his film scores.-Film music:Gowers' works include the following music scores: Comic Act , Forever Green , The Hound of the Baskervilles , The Sign of Four , Whoops Apocalypse , Anna Karenina , Smiley's People , I remember...
  
  , composer, conductor and arranger
• John Guy
  John Guy (historian)
  John Guy is a British historian and biographer.Born in Australia, he moved to Britain with his parents in 1952. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Lytham, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he read history, taking a First. At Cambridge, Guy studied under the Tudor specialist Geoffrey...
  
  , leading Tudor historian and Fellow of the College
• Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, classicist, historian and archaeologist
• Sir Charles Hanson, 2nd Baronet
• Nick Harkaway
  Nick Harkaway
  Nick Harkaway is a novelist. He is the author of The Gone-Away World, a novel published in June 2008. He is the son of author John le Carré....
  
  , novelist
• Carr Hervey, Lord Harvey, British MP and eldest son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol
  John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol
  John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol was an English politician.John Hervey was born in Bury St Edmunds, the son of Sir Thomas Hervey. He was educated in Bury and at Clare College, Cambridge...
  
  
• John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol
  John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol
  John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol was an English politician.John Hervey was born in Bury St Edmunds, the son of Sir Thomas Hervey. He was educated in Bury and at Clare College, Cambridge...
  
  , British MP and supporter of the Hanoverian Succession
• John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, British MP and eldest son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol
  John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol
  John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol was an English politician.John Hervey was born in Bury St Edmunds, the son of Sir Thomas Hervey. He was educated in Bury and at Clare College, Cambridge...
  
   by his second marriage
• James Rendel Harris, biblical scholar, theologian, palaeographer and mathematician
• Kit Hesketh-Harvey
  Kit Hesketh-Harvey
  Christopher John "Kit" Hesketh Harvey is a British musical comic performer, translator, composer and scriptwriter.Born in Nyasaland , he was educated as senior chorister at Canterbury Cathedral and then Tonbridge School in Kent before moving on as a choral scholar under John Rutter to Clare...
  
  , comic performer and scriptwriter
• Sir Bob Hepple, QC, FBA
  Bob Hepple
  Sir Bob Hepple QC is a South African born academic and leader in the fields of labour law, tort and discrimination. He taught for much of his career at Cambridge University, University College London and as Chairman of the Industrial Tribunals....
  
  , attorney, advocate and anti-apartheid campaigner in South Africa
  South Africa
  The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
  
   until 1963, specialist in labour law, industrial relations, equality and anti-discrimination law, Master of the College 1993-2003, Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
   1995-2001
• Ruth Holton
  Ruth Holton
  -Training:Holton won a choral exhibition at Clare College, Cambridge and studied music there. Her later musical studies were with Elizabeth Lane, Nancy Long and Julie Kennard.-Career:...
  
  , soprano
• David Howarth
  David Howarth
  David Ross Howarth is a British Liberal Democrat politician who was Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2005 to 2010.- Education and academic career :...
  
  , Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge and Fellow of the College
• Martin How
  Martin How
  Martin How is a British composer and organist. Martin is the son of the late Most Revd J C H How, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church....
  
  , composer and organist
• Thomas McKenny Hughes
  Thomas McKenny Hughes
  Thomas McKenny Hughes was a Welsh geologist. He was Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge University.-Private life:...
  
  , Woodwardian Professor of Geology
  Woodwardian Professor of Geology
  The Woodwardian Professor of Geology is a professorship held in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. It was founded by John Woodward in 1728...
  
   at the University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
   1873-1917
• Tim Hunt
  Tim Hunt
  Sir Richard Timothy "Tim" Hunt, FRS is an English biochemist.Hunt was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Leland H...
  
  , biochemist
• Norman L. Jones, Tudor historian and Head of Department of History, Utah State University
  Utah State University
  Utah State University is a public university located in Logan, Utah. It is a land-grant and space-grant institution and is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities....
  
  
• Bernard Keeffe, Conductor and Broadcaster
• James Butler Knill Kelly
  James Butler Knill Kelly
  James Butler Knill Kelly was a Bishop of the Church of England active in the British colony of Newfoundland and in Scotland. Kelly was a participant in the first Lambeth Conference, which was a crucial step in the creation of the Anglican Communion...
  
  , Anglican Bishop of Newfoundland
  Newfoundland and Labrador
  Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada. Situated in the country's Atlantic region, it incorporates the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador with a combined area of . As of April 2011, the province's estimated population is 508,400...
  
  
• Oscar Kempthorne
  Oscar Kempthorne
  Oscar Kempthorne was a statistician and geneticist known for his research on randomization-analysis and the design of experiments, which had wide influence on research in agriculture, genetics, and other areas of science...
  
  , Distinguished Professor of Science and Humanities at Iowa State University
  Iowa State University
  Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University , is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States. Iowa State has produced astronauts, scientists, and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, along with a host of...
  
  , statistician and geneticist
• Andrew Key, British Ambassador to Macedonia, 2007
• Robert Key
  Robert Key (politician)
  Simon Robert Key known as Robert Key is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is the former Member of Parliament for Salisbury, Wiltshire.-Early life:...
  
  , Conservative
  Conservative Party (UK)
  The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
  
   MP
• Matt Kirshen
  Matt Kirshen
  Matt Kirshen is a British comedian. Kirshen has performed around the world, including Singapore, Dubai, Holland, Germany, and France. In 2007, he enjoyed a successful run in NBC's Last Comic Standing...
  
  , stand-up comedian
• Frances Kirwan
  Frances Kirwan
  Frances Clare Kirwan, FRS is a British mathematician, currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.Educated at Oxford High School, she studied at the University of Cambridge. She took a D.Phil at Oxford in 1984, supervised by Michael Atiyah...
  
  , Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University
• Tessa Knighton, hispanist, musicologist, editor of Early Music and Fellow of the College
• Hugh Latimer
  Hugh Latimer
  Hugh Latimer was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, Bishop of Worcester before the Reformation, and later Church of England chaplain to King Edward VI. In 1555, under Queen Mary, he was burnt at the stake, becoming one of the three Oxford Martyrs of Anglicanism.-Life:Latimer was born into a...
  
  , Chaplain to Henry VIII, Bishop of Worcester and martyr
• Sue Lenier
  Sue Lenier
  Susan Jennifer Lenier is an English writer. She published two books of poetry and a number of plays.-Biography:Sue Lenier was born in Birmingham, schooled in Tyneside, and attended Clare College, Cambridge...
  
  , poet and playwright
• Randy Lerner
  Randy Lerner
  Randolph D. Lerner is an American entrepreneur and sports team owner.Lerner has been the owner of the American football team, the Cleveland Browns, of the National Football League since October 2002, and the Chairman of Aston Villa Football Club of the English Premier League since 2006...
  
  , American entrepreneur, owner of Aston Villa and Cleveland Browns
• Rebecca Levene
  Rebecca Levene
  Rebecca Levene is a British author and editor, best known for editing Virgin's New Adventures series of original fiction Doctor Who novels.-Biography:...
  
  , author of Doctor Who
  Doctor Who
  Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
  
  novels
• Peter Lilley
  Peter Lilley
  Peter Bruce Lilley MP is a British Conservative Party politician who has been a Member of Parliament MP since 1983. He currently represents the constituency of Hitchin and Harpenden and, prior to boundary changes, represented St Albans...
  
  , Conservative
  Conservative Party (UK)
  The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
  
   MP
• Kurt Lipstein
  Kurt Lipstein
  Kurt Lipstein QC was a German-born legal scholar. Of Jewish descent, Lipstein emigrated after the Machtergreifung...
  
  , QC, German-born lawyer, refugee from Nazism
  Nazism
  Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
  
  , specialist in Roman law
  Roman law
  Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, and the legal developments which occurred before the 7th century AD — when the Roman–Byzantine state adopted Greek as the language of government. The development of Roman law comprises more than a thousand years of jurisprudence — from the Twelve...
  
   and conflict of laws
  Conflict of laws
  Conflict of laws is a set of procedural rules that determines which legal system and which jurisdiction's applies to a given dispute...
  
   within private international law
  International law
  Public international law concerns the structure and conduct of sovereign states; analogous entities, such as the Holy See; and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyond...
  
   and public international law and pioneer in comparative law
  Comparative law
  Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between the law of different countries. More specifically, it involves study of the different legal systems in existence in the world, including the common law, the civil law, socialist law, Islamic law, Hindu law, and Chinese law...
  
  , Fellow of the College 1956-2006, Professor of Comparative Law
  Comparative law
  Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between the law of different countries. More specifically, it involves study of the different legal systems in existence in the world, including the common law, the civil law, socialist law, Islamic law, Hindu law, and Chinese law...
  
   at the University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
   1973-1976
• Liz Lloyd
  Liz Lloyd
  Elizabeth Anne Lloyd, CBE, served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Tony Blair's last administration.A member of a virtual New Labour group who attended Guildford Grammar School , she graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, in 1993 before becoming a researcher for Tony Blair when he was Shadow...
  
  , adviser to former Prime Minister Tony Blair
  Tony Blair
  Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...
  
  
• Henry Longhurst
  Henry Longhurst
  Henry Carpenter Longhurst was a renowned British golf writer and commentator. During World War II, Longhurst was also a Member of Parliament for Acton in west London, England.-Biography:...
  
  , Sports Journalist, Television Broadcaster
• Tim Loughton
  Tim Loughton
  Timothy Paul Loughton is a British Conservative Party politician, and has been Member of Parliament for East Worthing and Shoreham since the 1997 general election...
  
  , Conservative
  Conservative Party (UK)
  The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
  
   MP
• Ben Lumsden, musician and songwriter, bassist in former rock
  Rock music
  Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
  
   band Grace
• Robert Mair
  Robert Mair
  Robert James Mair CBE FREng FICE FRS is a British geotechnologist. He was appointed Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at Cambridge University in 1998, succeeding Andrew Noel Schofield. He was Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge from 1998 to 2001, when he became Master of Jesus College,...
  
  , Master of Jesus College, Cambridge
  Jesus College, Cambridge
  Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The College was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely...
  
  
• Andrew Manze
  Andrew Manze
  Andrew Manze is an English violinist and conductor.As a guest conductor Manze has regular relationships with a number of leading international orchestras including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Munich Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra,...
  
  , baroque violinist and broadcaster, Musical Director of The English Concert
  The English Concert
  The English Concert is a baroque orchestra playing on period instruments based in London. Founded in 1972 and directed from the harpsichord by Trevor Pinnock for 30 years, it is now directed by harpsichordist Harry Bicket...
  
  
• Zoë Martlew, cellist
• Ian McDonald
  Ian McDonald (writer)
  Ian McDonald is a poet, novelist, and sugar industry advocate. He was born in St. Augustine, Trinidad, in 1933, and educated at Queen's Royal College in Port of Spain and Clare College, Cambridge University, where he was a tennis champion and captained the university team. In 1955 he moved to...
  
  , writer
• Paul Mellon
  Paul Mellon
  Paul Mellon KBE was an American philanthropist, thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder. He is one of only five people ever designated an "Exemplar of Racing" by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame...
  
  , benefactor
• Thomas Merton
  Thomas Merton
  Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. was a 20th century Anglo-American Catholic writer and mystic. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion...
  
  , writer, Catholic thinker and monk
• John Moore
  John Moore (Bishop of Ely)
  John Moore was an English cleric, scholar, and book collector. He was bishop of Norwich and bishop of Ely ....
  
  , Bishop of Ely
  Bishop of Ely
  The Bishop of Ely is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Ely in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese roughly covers the county of Cambridgeshire , together with a section of north-west Norfolk and has its see in the City of Ely, Cambridgeshire, where the seat is located at the...
  
   1707-1714
• Mohan Munasinghe
  Mohan Munasinghe
  Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan physicist and economist. With a focus on energy, sustainable development and climate change, he is the Chairman of the , the at the University of Manchester, UK, and the Vice Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , that shared the 2007 Nobel...
  
  , environmental campaigner, founder of Munasinghe Institute for Development, vice chair of IPCC
  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a scientific intergovernmental body which provides comprehensive assessments of current scientific, technical and socio-economic information worldwide about the risk of climate change caused by human activity, its potential environmental and...
  
   which won Nobel Peace Prize 2007 jointly with Al Gore
• Arthur Darby Nock, classicist and historian of religion
• Sir Roger Norrington
  Roger Norrington
  Sir Roger Arthur Carver Norrington, CBE is a British conductor. He is the son of Sir Arthur Norrington and his brother is Humphrey Thomas Norrington....
  
  , conductor, founded the London Classical Players
  London Classical Players
  The London Classical Players was a British orchestra that specialized in music following historically informed performance practices and orchestral performances on period musical instruments. Sir Roger Norrington founded the LCP in 1978. From 1978 to 1992, the concertmaster of the London...
  
  
• Matthew Parris
  Matthew Parris
  Matthew Francis Parris is a UK-based journalist and former Conservative politician.-Early life and family:...
  
  , broadcaster, political analyst and former Conservative
  Conservative Party (UK)
  The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
  
   MP
• The Revd Canon Arthur Robert Peacocke, MBE
  Arthur Peacocke
  The Reverend Canon Arthur Robert Peacocke MBE was a British theologian and biochemist.-Biography:Arthur Robert Peacocke was born at Watford in on 29 November 1924...
  
  , scientist and theologian, Dean of the College 1973-1984
• Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, KG, PC was a British Whig statesman, whose official life extended throughout the Whig supremacy of the 18th century. He is commonly known as the Duke of Newcastle.A protégé of Sir Robert Walpole, he served...
  
  , Prime Minister of Great Britain
• Sir Brian Pippard
  Brian Pippard
  Sir Alfred Brian Pippard, ScD, FRS , was a British physicist. He was Cavendish Professor of Physics from 1971 until 1984 and an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, of which he was the first President...
  
  , first President of Clare Hall, Cambridge, Cavendish Professor of Physics
  Cavendish Professor of Physics
  The Cavendish Professorship is one of the senior Professorships in Physics at Cambridge University. It was founded by grace of 9 February 1871 alongside the famous Cavendish Laboratory which was completed three years later...
  
   at the University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
   1971-1984
• James Raven
  James Raven
  James Russell Raven FSA is a British historian.-Biography:Born in Colchester, James Raven attended The Gilberd School in the town. He read History at Clare College, Cambridge, where he also completed his doctorate on attitudes to wealth creation...
  
  , Professor of History at the University of Essex
  University of Essex
  The University of Essex is a British campus university whose original and largest campus is near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965...
  
  
• William Brian Reddaway, economist, Professor of Political Economy
  Professor of Political Economy, Cambridge University
  The Professorship of Political Economy is a professorship at the University of Cambridge, founded in 1828.-Professors of Political Economy:* George Pryme * Henry Fawcett * Alfred Marshall * Arthur Cecil Pigou...
  
   at the University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
   1969-1980
• Geoffrey Robinson
  Geoffrey Robinson
  Geoffrey Robinson is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Coventry North West since 1976. He was Paymaster General from May 1997 to January 1999, resigning after it was revealed that he had lent his government colleague Peter Mandelson £373,000 to buy a house...
  
  , Labour
  Labour Party (UK)
  The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
  
   MP
• George Ruggle, early seventeenth-century scholar, philologist and playwright
• John Rutter
  John Rutter
  John Milford Rutter CBE is a British composer, conductor, editor, arranger and record producer, mainly of choral music.-Biography:Born in London, Rutter was educated at Highgate School, where a fellow pupil was John Tavener. He read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the...
  
  , composer, conductor, editor, arranger and record producer
• Siegfried Sassoon
  Siegfried Sassoon
  Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC was an English poet, author and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's...
  
  , war poet
• Dr Andrew Sentance
  Andrew Sentance
  Andrew Sentance is Senior Economic Adviser to PwC, a position he took up in November 2011. He was an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England from October 2006 to May 2011.-Qualifications:...
  
  , Member, Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee
  Monetary Policy Committee
  The Monetary Policy Committee is a committee of the Bank of England, which meets for two and a half days every month to decide the official interest rate in the United Kingdom . It is also responsible for directing other aspects of the government's monetary policy framework, such as quantitative...
  
  , 2006-11, and Chief Economist from 1998-2006 at British Airways
  British Airways
  British Airways is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom, based in Waterside, near its main hub at London Heathrow Airport. British Airways is the largest airline in the UK based on fleet size, international flights and international destinations...
  
  
• Sir Nicholas John Shackleton FRS, geologist, Professor at the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research and the Department of Earth Sciences
  University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences
  The Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge is the University of Cambridge's Earth Sciences department. The main location of the department is at the Downing Site, Downing St. The Bullard Laboratories, located in West Cambridge on Madingley Rd, and the Godwin Laboratory, in the New Museums Site...
  
   in the University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
  
• Cecil Sharp
  Cecil Sharp
  Cecil James Sharp was the founding father of the folklore revival in England in the early 20th century, and many of England's traditional dances and music owe their continuing existence to his work in recording and publishing them.-Early life:Sharp was born in Camberwell, London, the eldest son of...
  
  , folklorist and ethnographer
• Rupert Sheldrake
  Rupert Sheldrake
  Rupert Sheldrake is an English scientist. He is known for having proposed an unorthodox account of morphogenesis and for his research into parapsychology. His books and papers stem from his theory of morphic resonance, and cover topics such as animal and plant development and behaviour, memory,...
  
  , scientist
• Ed Snow, stage name Skankhammer, musician and songwriter, drummer in "cult" ska
  Ska
  Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...
  
   band 7 Seconds of Love
  7 Seconds of Love
  7 Seconds of Love are an English ska/2 Tone band, fronted by musician and animator Joel Veitch that writes and plays songs with often nonsensical lyrics. Veitch animates many videos of the band's songs, such as "Ninja" and "First Drink of the Day". Some songs have had videos directed by guitarist...
  
  
• Matthew Stadlen, producer, editor and journalist for BBC News
  BBC News
  BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...
  
  , presents Five Minutes With...
• Richard Stilgoe
  Richard Stilgoe
  Richard Henry Simpson Stilgoe OBE is a British songwriter, lyricist and musician. He is noted for clever wordplay as much as for his music....
  
  , songwriter, lyricist and musician
• Sam Swallow, musician and songwriter, keyboardist in former rock
  Rock music
  Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
  
   band Grace, guest keyboardist with pop
  Pop music
  Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
  
   band The Hoosiers
  The Hoosiers
  The Hoosiers are an English pop/rock band, consisting of members Irwin Sparkes , Martin Skarendahl and Alan Sharland ....
  
  
• Harold McCarter Taylor
  Harold McCarter Taylor
  Harold McCarter Taylor CBE TD was a New Zealand-born British mathematician, theoretical physicist and academic administrator, but is best known as a historian of architecture and the author, with his first wife Joan Taylor, née Sills, of the three volumes of Anglo-Saxon Architecture, published...
  
  , architectural historian
• Richard Taylor
  Richard Taylor
  Richard Taylor may refer to:*Richard Taylor , father of U.S. president Zachary Taylor*Richard Taylor , British general*Richard Taylor , son of U.S...
  
  , Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University
  Harvard University
  Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
  
  
• Dr Richard Taylor
  Richard Taylor (UK politician)
  Richard Thomas Taylor FRCP is an English doctor and former politician. He served as an Independent Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest between 2001 and 2010...
  
  , Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern
  Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern
  Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern is a political party based in Kidderminster, United Kingdom...
  
   MP
• Gillian Tett
  Gillian Tett
  Gillian Tett is a British author and award-winning journalist at the Financial Times, where she is the US managing editor She has written about the financial instruments that were part of the cause of the financial crisis that started in the fourth quarter of 2007, such as CDOs, credit default...
  
  , US managing editor of the Financial Times
  Financial Times
  The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....
  
  and author of the book Fool's Gold
• Marcel Theroux
  Marcel Theroux
  Marcel Raymond Theroux is a British novelist and broadcaster. He wrote The Stranger in The Earth and The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: a paper chase for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2002. His third novel, A Blow to the Heart, was published by Faber in 2006. His fourth, Far North was...
  
  , writer and broadcaster
• Sir Henry Thirkill, physicist, Master of the College 1939-1958, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
   1945-1947
• Robin Ticciati
  Robin Ticciati
  Robin Ticciati is a British conductor of Italian ancestry. His paternal grandfather was a composer and arranger. His father is a barrister, and his mother is a therapist...
  
  , conductor, pianist, percussionist and violinist, co-founded Aurora Orchestra
  Aurora Orchestra
  Aurora Orchestra is a British chamber orchestra founded in 2005 by conductors Nicholas Collon and Robin Ticciati.It is based in Kings Place, London and at LSO St Luke's....
  
  , Musical Director and Artistic Advisor of the Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Musical Director of Glyndebourne on Tour
  Glyndebourne Festival Opera
  Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an English opera festival held at Glyndebourne, an English country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.-History:...
  
  
• John Tillotson
  John Tillotson
  John Tillotson was an Archbishop of Canterbury .-Curate and rector:Tillotson was the son of a Puritan clothier at Haughend, Sowerby, Yorkshire. He entered as a pensioner of Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 1647, graduated in 1650 and was made fellow of his college in 1651...
  
  , Archbishop of Canterbury
  Archbishop of Canterbury
  The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
  
   1691-1694
• Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney
  Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney
  Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney PC , was a British politician who held several important Cabinet posts in the second half of the 18th century...
  
  , senior British politician after whom Sydney
  Sydney
  Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
  
  , Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
   was named
• Richard Wainwright, Liberal
  Liberal Party (UK)
  The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
  
   MP
• Sir John Waldron
  John Waldron (police officer)
  Sir John Lovegrove Waldron, KCVO was a British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Berkshire Constabulary from 1954 to 1958 and Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police from 1968 to 1972....
  
  , Commissioner
  Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
  The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis is the head of London's Metropolitan Police Service, classing the holder as a chief police officer...
  
   of the Metropolitan Police
  Metropolitan Police Service
  The Metropolitan Police Service is the territorial police force responsible for Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London which is the responsibility of the City of London Police...
  
  , 1968-1972
• Prof Sir Mark Walport, director of Wellcome Trust
  Wellcome Trust
  The Wellcome Trust was established in 1936 as an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health. With an endowment of around £13.9 billion, it is the United Kingdom's largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research...
  
  
• Christopher Wandesford
  Christopher Wandesford
  Christopher Wandesford , was an English politician administrator, Lord Deputy of Ireland at the end of his life.-Life:He was the son of Sir George Wandesford of Kirklington, Yorkshire, and was born on 24 September 1592....
  
  , Lord Deputy of Ireland
  Lord Deputy of Ireland
  The Lord Deputy was the King's representative and head of the Irish executive under English rule, during the Lordship of Ireland and later the Kingdom of Ireland...
  
   in 1640
• James D. Watson
  James D. Watson
  James Dewey Watson is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick...
  
  , double helix discoverer and human genome advocate
• Clive Wearing
  Clive Wearing
  Clive Wearing is a British musicologist, conductor, and keyboardist suffering from an acute and long-lasting case of anterograde and retrograde amnesia, meaning that he lacks the ability to form new memories.-Musical career:...
  
  , musician, musicologist, broadcaster and amnesiac
• Abraham Whelock, seventeenth-century scholar, philologist and Arabist
• William Whiston
  William Whiston
  William Whiston was an English theologian, historian, and mathematician. He is probably best known for his translation of the Antiquities of the Jews and other works by Josephus, his A New Theory of the Earth, and his Arianism...
  
  , Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
   1702-1711, theologian
• Vernon White
  Vernon White (theologian)
  Vernon Philip White is a British Anglican priest and theological scholar.White was born in south-east London in 1953. After leaving school he spent a year undertaking Voluntary Service Overseas in Africa. He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge and Oriel College, Oxford...
  
  , Principal of STETS and Canon of Winchester
• William Whitehead
  William Whitehead
  __FORCETOC__William Whitehead was an English poet and playwright. He became Poet Laureate in 1757 after Thomas Gray declined the position.-Life:...
  
  , Poet Laureate
  Poet Laureate
  A poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...
  
   1757-1785
• Andrew Wiles
  Andrew Wiles
  Sir Andrew John Wiles KBE FRS is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory...
  
  , mathematician who proved Fermat's last theorem
  Fermat's Last Theorem
  In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem states that no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation an + bn = cn for any integer value of n greater than two....
  
  
• The Most Revd and Rt Hon Dr Rowan Williams
  Rowan Williams
  Rowan Douglas Williams FRSL, FBA, FLSW is an Anglican bishop, poet and theologian. He is the 104th and current Archbishop of Canterbury, Metropolitan of the Province of Canterbury and Primate of All England, offices he has held since early 2003.Williams was previously Bishop of Monmouth and...
  
  , Dean of the College 1984-1986, Archbishop of Canterbury
  Archbishop of Canterbury
  The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
  
   2003-present
• Richard Williamson
  Richard Williamson
  Richard Nelson Williamson, is an English traditionalist Catholic and bishop who is a member of the Society of St. Pius X . Williamson opposes the changes in the Catholic Church brought about by the Second Vatican Council...
  
  , traditionalist Catholic bishop of the Society of St. Pius X
• Christopher Willis
  Christopher Willis
  Christopher Willis is a British composer. He has written music for a number of film scores with several other British film composers including Harry Gregson-Williams, Rupert Gregson-Williams and Henry Jackman...
  
  , film composer
• Michael Wills
  Michael Wills
  Michael David Wills, Baron Wills is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Swindon North from 1997 to 2010. He was a Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice, a position he held from 29 June 2007....
  
  , Labour
  Labour Party (UK)
  The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
  
   MP
• Lord Wilson of High Wray
  Paul Wilson, Baron Wilson of High Wray
  Paul Norman Wilson, Baron Wilson of High Wray KStJ OBE was a British engineer, Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland and of Cumbria and Governor of the BBC.-Early life:...
  
  , Governor of the BBC
  BBC
  The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
  
   and Lord Lieutenant
  Lord Lieutenant
  The title Lord Lieutenant is given to the British monarch's personal representatives in the United Kingdom, usually in a county or similar circumscription, with varying tasks throughout history. Usually a retired local notable, senior military officer, peer or business person is given the post...
  
   of Cumbria
  Cumbria
  Cumbria , is a non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local authority, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's largest settlement and county town is Carlisle. It consists of six districts, and in...
  
  
• Richard Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton
  Richard Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton
  Richard Thomas James Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton GCB is a cross bench member of the British House of Lords.-Career:...
  
  , civil servant and Cabinet Secretary
  Cabinet Secretary
  A Cabinet Secretary is almost always a senior official who provides services and advice to a Cabinet of Ministers. In many countries, the position can have considerably wider functions and powers, including general responsibility for the entire civil service...
  
  , Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
  Emmanuel College, Cambridge
  Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay on the site of a Dominican friary...
  
  
• Simon Wren-Lewis, Professor of Economics at Oxford
• Najam Sethi
  Najam Sethi
  Najam Sethi is an award-winning Pakistani journalist and the editor-in-chief of The Friday Times, a Lahore-based political weekly. He was previously the editor of Daily Times and Daily Aajkal newspapers. He also hosts a popular political program in Urdu, called Aapas ki Baat, on GEO News...
  
  , journalist