University of Cambridge: Quick Facts

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Date	1209 - present
Notable Alumni	Lord Rayleigh • Ian Hacking • Peter Eisenman • Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher • Martin Rees • Sir James Lighthill • Stephen Hawking • Sir George Biddell Airy • F.R. Leavis • Sir Harold Jeffreys • Sir John A. Pople • David Cox • Sir Richard Stone • Sir Alan Hodgkin • Martin Evans • Sir William Hodge • Abdus Salam • Tim Hunt • Brooke Foss Westcott • Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian • Sir Dennis Holme Robertson • Sir Thomas Francis Wade • Sir John Douglas Cockcroft • Fenton J. A. Hort • Reynold Alleyne Nicholson • Sir Charles Villiers Stanford • Timothy Gowers • John Milton • Isaac Newton • Bertrand Russell • Judith Jarvis Thomson • William Thomson, Baron Kelvin • Sylvia Plath • Henry Cavendish • Alan Turing • Frederick Sanger • Ian McKellen • Nick Clegg • David Attenborough • Quentin Skinner • Salman Rushdie • Subhas Chandra Bose • John Maynard Keynes • Jane Fraser • Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of Strafford • Andy Burnham • Usha Vance • Sam Mendes • Sacha Baron Cohen • Dorothy Hodgkin • Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet • Blaise Metreweli • Tilda Swinton • Emma Thompson • Sri Aurobindo • John Oliver • Karl Pearson • Inge Lehmann • Stephen Greenblatt • China Miéville • Daniel Lieberman • John Wallis • William Donald Hamilton • Geoffrey Hinton • Lee Hsien Loong • Zadie Smith • Aleister Crowley • Nick Hornby • Mani Shankar Aiyar • Richard Henderson • Vince Cable • John M. Jumper • John Legend • John Cleese • Tom Hiddleston • Kenneth Harry Clarke • Louis Leakey • Elizabeth Blackburn • Edward VII • James Chadwick • John Browne, Lord Browne of Madingley • Tom Udall • Stewart Butterfield • Rachel Weisz • Somnath Chatterjee • Jonathan Sacks • George VI • Francis Crick • Arianna Huffington • Angus Deaton • Nathaniel Bacon • Robin Milner • Jane Goodall • Andrew Wiles • William Empson • Peter J. Ratcliffe • Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker • Jonathan Miller • Hans Blix • Rosalind Franklin • Ken Freeman • A.S. Byatt • Diane Abbott • John Berryman • David Thouless • Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet • Margaret Drabble • Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker • Eddie George • Germaine Greer • Sir Charles Scott Sherrington • Peter Hall • James H. Wilkinson • Dian Fossey • Sir John Wildman • Sir Frank Whittle • Jocelyn Bell Burnell • P.C. Mahalanobis • Malcolm Lowry • Walter Gilbert • Sir Leslie Stephen • Brook Taylor • Colin Dexter • Vikram Sarabhai • Max Ferdinand Perutz • Sir John Hubert Marshall • Sir Anthony Caro • Roger Penrose • C.P. Snow • Sir Vincent Wigglesworth • Oliver Hart • Kim Philby • Allan MacLeod Cormack • John Sulston • César Milstein • Robert William Fogel • Stanley Keith Runcorn • Kayla Barron • Nikolai Vavilov • Ralph Hawtrey • Kwame Anthony Appiah • Patrick Blackett • Mostafa El-Abbadi • Sir John Graham Kerr • Duncan Haldane • Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild • Sir Harold Spencer Jones • Peter Naur • Helen Magill White • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak • J. Michael Kosterlitz • William Wavell Wakefield, Baron Wakefield • Guy Burgess • Sir Kenneth Blackburne • Sir David Frost • Michael Frayn • Norman Foster Ramsey • Hugh Esmor Huxley • Sir Peter Markham Scott • Roy Kerr • Sir Peter Shaffer • Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley • Sir John Sealy Townsend • Alan G. MacDiarmid • Malcolm Longair • R. A. Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden • A.J.P. Martin • Sir Henry Dale • Sir John Ambrose Fleming • Sir Roger Twysden • Hugh Foot • Sir Edward Victor Appleton • Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham • Sir Roy Harrod • Sir Thomas Gresham • Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton • Frederic Bartlett • Sir John Cowdery Kendrew • Elaine Feinstein • Vivian Fuchs • William Penney, Baron Penney • Sir George Stapledon • Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson • Henry Cromwell • Charles Curran • Stephen Edelston Toulmin • Sir Benegal Narsing Rau • Antony Hewish • Ronald George Wreyford Norrish • Peter Dennis Mitchell • Sir Hugh Walpole • Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks • Sydney Chapman • Henry Peacham • Charles Glover Barkla • John Hervey, 1st earl of Bristol • Sir J. C. Squire • Michael Halliday • Constance Garnett • Robert Browne
Related People	Theodore Hall • John Caius • Sir Richard Winn Livingstone • Anne Jemima Clough • Sir Giles Gilbert Scott • Emily Davies • Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon • Edmund Gonville

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