List of alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
A list of alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England. Its alumni include politicians, members of the judiciary, academics, industrialists, artists, athletes and journalists. This list also includes non-collegiate students affiliated to Cambridge University, known as students of Fitzwilliam House, prior to the granting of collegiate status in 1966.
The college has educated six winners of the Nobel Prize: Angus Deaton (2015, in Economics), Joseph Stiglitz (2001, in Economics), César Milstein (1981, in Medicine), Ernst Boris Chain (1945, in Medicine), Albert Szent-Györgyi (1937, in Medicine), Charles Sherrington (1932, in Medicine).[1]
Heads of state or government
Subhas Chandra Bose
- Queen Sofía of Spain — Queen of Spain and wife of Juan Carlos I
- Shankar Dayal Sharma — ninth President of India
- Lee Kuan Yew — first prime minister of Singapore
- Subhas Chandra Bose — Indian nationalist and Head of the State and Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of Free India (1943-5)
Politicians and civil servants
- Augustus Molade Akiwumi — judge and the second Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana
- Joseph Baptista — Indian politician and Mayor of Bombay
- Robert Battersby — Conservative MEP for Humberside (1979–89)
- Denys Bullard — Conservative politician
- Judith Bunting — Liberal Democrats MEP for South East England
- Andy Burnham — Labour politician and Mayor of Greater Manchester (2017-)
- Dennis Byron — former President of the Caribbean Court of Justice
- Vince Cable — Liberal Democrat MP and former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (2010–15)
- Sachindra Chaudhuri — Indian politician and Minister of Finance (1965-7)
- Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi — Labour MP
- Cressida Dick — police officer and Commissioner of the Met
- Timothy Duke — officer of arms at the College of Arms in London
- Kenneth Eaton — Royal Navy officer who served as Controller of the Navy (1989–94)
- Mike Gapes — former Labour MP
- Bernard Georges — member of the National Assembly of the Seychelles
- John Glen — Conservative MP, serving as Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister
- Tim Godwin — former Deputy Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service
- Julia Goldsworthy — former Liberal Democrats MP
- Geoff Gollop — Conservative politician and former Lord Mayor of Bristol
- J. E. Casely Hayford — Ghanaian politician
- Heng Chee How — Singaporean politician
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Cressida Dick
- Bernard Hogan-Howe — Commissioner of the Met (2011–17)
- Sara Ibrahim — barrister and Labour activist
- Dave Johnston — police officer
- Alicia Kearns — Conservative MP for Rutland and Melton
- Jim Knight — former Labour MP
- Bashiru Kwaw-Swanzy — Attorney General of Ghana (1962–66)
- Norman Lamont — Conservative politician and former MP
- David Leakey — general and former Director of the European Union Military Staff
- Adrian Leppard — former Commissioner of City of London Police
- Babar W. Malik — Pakistani Diplomat
- William Manning — colonial administrator
- David Martin — Conservative MP for Portsmouth South (1987-1997)
- Jon Murphy — police officer
- Chris O'Connor — diplomat and former ambassador to Tunisia (2008–13)
- Declan O'Loan — SDLP politician
- Brian Paddick — Liberal Democrats politician and peer
- G. G. Ponnambalam — Sri Lankan politician and founder of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress
- Sir David Reddaway, British High Commissioner to Canada, British Ambassador to Ireland, British Ambassador to Turkey
- Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu — Sri Lankan civil servant
- Gilbert Granville Sharp — liberal politician and barrister
- Samir Shihabi — President of the United Nations General Assembly (1991-2)
- Mike Snelling — test pilot
- Norman St John-Stevas — Conservative politician and Leader of the House of Commons (1979–81)
- David Wilshire - Conservative Politician
Lawyers and judges
- David Kitchin — Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- Sarah Asplin — Court of Appeal Judge
- Duncan Ouseley — High Court Judge
- Dean Spielmann — lawyer and president of the European Court of Human Rights (2013-5)
- Nasir Aslam Zahid - former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
- Andrew Li — judge and Chief Justice of Hong Kong (1997-2010)
- Anthony Gates — Chief Justice of Fiji
- Marina Wheeler — lawyer and former spouse of Boris Johnson
- David Martin (English politician)
Academics
Science
Charles Sherrington
- Shankar Balasubramanian — chemist and Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
- David Cardwell — engineer and head of the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
- Min Chueh Chang — reproductive biologist, co-developer of the birth control pill
- Ernst Chain — biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
- Henry Gee — palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist
- David Lagourie Gosling — nuclear physicist
- Vasant Gowarikar — physicist and scientific adviser to the Prime Minister of India (1991-3)
- Albert Szent-Györgyi — biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
- C. E. M. Hansel — psychologist
- Andy Harter — computer scientist
- Christopher John Lamb — plant biologist
- Harry Leitch — biologist
- Anthony Michell — engineer
- César Milstein — biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
- Jayant Narlikar - astrophysicist
- Mark Pallen — microbiologist
- Adam Scaife — physicist
- Charles Scott Sherrington — neurologist and Nobel Prize winner
- M. S. Swaminathan - geneticist, winner the first World Food Prize
- James Ward — Psychologist and philosopher, President of the Aristotelian Society (1919–20)
Mathematics
- Richard Rado — mathematician
- Arran Fernandez — mathematician and Senior Wrangler
Social Sciences
- Nicholas Bloom — economist
- Angus Deaton — economist and Nobel Prize winner (2015)
- Geoff Dench — sociologist
- Carlene Firmin — sociologist
- Hal Lister — geographer
- John Moore — economist
- Norman Pounds — geographer and historian
- Sigbert Prais — economist
- Rogelio Ramírez de la O — econonomist
- Gordon Redding — economist
- T. Somasekaram — geographer
- Joseph Stiglitz — economist and Nobel Prize winner
Humanities
- Paul Mellars — archaeologist
- Bernard Orchard — biblical scholar
- John Pickstone — historian of science
- Derek Pringle — literary critic
- M Harunur Rashid — literary critic and scholar of Sufism
- Sir J. Eric S. Thompson - translator of Mayan hieroglyphs
- Charles Feinstein — historian
- John Hedley Brooke — historian of science
- Catherine Barnard — legal scholar
- David W. Bebbington — historian
- Maurice Bloch — anthropologist
Joseph Stiglitz
- Louis Blom-Cooper lawyer and legal scholar
- John Ingamells — art historian and former director of the Wallace Collection
- Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones - historian
- Sebastian Kim — theologian
- Casimir Lewy — philosopher
- John M. Hull — theologist
- E. J. Lowe — philosopher
- I. Howard Marshall — New Testament scholar
- Moez Masoud — scholar of Islam
Clergy
- John Alford — Archdeacon of Halifax (1972–84)
- John Allen — Provost of Wakefield (1982–97)
- Mark Ashcroft — Bishop of Bolton (2016-)
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Michael Nazir-Ali
- Donald Baker — Bishop of Bendigo (1920–38)
- John C. A. Barrett — Methodist minister
- James Harvey Bloom — clergyman and antiquarian
- Frederick Bolton — Dean of Leighlin (1963–83)
- Leonard Cornwell — Archdeacon of Swindon (1947–63)
- John Cox (priest) — Archdeacon of Sudbury (1995-2006)
- Richard Fenwick — Bishop of St Helena (2011–18)
- Robert Freeman — Bishop of Penrith
- Richard Frith — Bishop of Hereford
- David Garnett — Archdeacon of Chesterfield (1996-2009)
- John Gathercole — Archdeacon of Dudley (1987-2001)
- David Goldie (priest) — Archdeacon of Buckingham (1998-2002)
- Leslie Griffiths — Methodist minister and life peer
- Frederick Hazell — Archdeacon of Croydon (1978–93)
- Simon Heathfield — Archdeacon of Aston (2014-)
- Vanessa Herrick — Archdeacon of Harlow
- Mike Hill — Bishop of Bristol (2003–17)
- Judy Hunt — Archdeacon of Suffolk (2009–12)
- Clifford Jarvis — clergyman
- Michael Langrish — Bishop of Exeter (2000–13)
- John Lawton — Archdeacon of Warrington (1970–81)
- Jane Leach — Methodist minister
- David Lee (priest) — Archdeacon of Bradford (2004–15)
- Norman Lesser — Archbishop of New Zealand (1961–71)
- Richard Lewis — Dean of Wells (1990-2003)
- Richard Llewellin — Anglican clergyman
- Clifford Martin — Bishop of Liverpool (1944–65)
- Gordon McPhate — former Dean of Chester
- Michael Middleton (priest) — Archdeacon of Swindon (1992-7)
- Arthur Morris — Anglican bishop
- Michael Nazir-Ali — Bishop of Rochester (1994-2009)
- Peter Nott — Bishop of Norwich (1985–99)
- Catherine Ogle — Dean of Winchester (2017-)
- William Purcell — Archdeacon of Dorking (1968–82)
- Alwyn Rice Jones — Archbishop of Wales (1991-9)
- Harold Richards — priest
- Peter Sertin — Anglican cleric
- Brian Smith — Bishop of Edinburgh (2001–11)
Business
Ken Olisa
- Sonita Alleyne — co-founder and former CEO of Somethin’ Else and Master of Jesus College, Cambridge
- Dinesh Dhamija — founder of Orbitz and Liberal Democrats MEP
- Dermot Gleeson — executive chairman of M J Gleeson and former member of the Board of Governors of the BBC
- Andrew Gower — co-founder of Jagex
- Graham Love — businessman and CEO of Qinetiq
- Helena Morrissey — financier
- Ken Olisa — businessman and Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London
- Christian Purslow — businessman and CEO of Aston Villa F.C.
Artists, writers and musicians
- David Atherton — conductor
- Catherine Banner — novelist
- Pat Chapman — food writer
- James Charlton — poet
- Walford Davies — composer
- Christopher de Bellaigue — journalist in the Middle East
- Nick Drake — singer
- Simon H. Fell — bassist and composer
- Giles Foden — author of The Last King of Scotland
- Maurizio Giuliano — traveller and author
- Catherine Grosvenor — playwright
- Lee Hall — playwright
- Charlotte Hudson — actress
- Shiv K. Kumar — poet and novelist
- Bem Le Hunte — novelist
- Joseph McManners — singer
- John Noble — baritone
- James Norton — actor
- Lawrence Osborne — novelist
- Martin Outram — violist
- Francis Scarfe — poet
Media
Peter Bazalgette
- Peter Bazalgette — television executive
- Humphrey Burton — music broadcaster
- Nick Clarke — radio host
- Tony Cornell — parapsychologist and TV personality
- Trevor Dann — writer and broadcaster
- David Starkey - historian and TV presenter
- Brian Dooley — TV writer
- Larry Elliott — journalist and economics editor at The Guardian
- Robin Ellis — actor
- Paul Henley — TV and radio journalist
- Ciaran Jenkins — reporter with Channel 4
- Nick Kochan — financial journalist
- Christopher Martin-Jenkins — cricket journalist
- Ahmed Rashid — journalist and author
- Beth Rigby - current political editor of Sky News
- Dan Roan — Sports Editor for BBC News
- Tim Sullivan - Film and television director
- Ted Young - Editor of Metro
Athletes
- Eddie Butler (rugby player) — former rugby player and sports commentator
- Raymond Calverley — canoeist
- Bernie Cotton — field hockey player
- Phil Edmonds — cricketer
- Alastair Hignell — rugby player and cricketer
- Michael Hutchinson — Northern Irish cyclist
- Tony Jorden — rugby player and cricketer
- Ed Kalman — rugby player
- Peter Mather — fencer
- Jamie McDowall — cricketer
- Fiona McIntosh — fencer
- Greg Nance — mountaineer and businessman
- Daniel Pettit — footballer and industrialist
- Derek Pringle — cricketer
- Martin Purdy — rugby player
- Chris Saunders — cricketer and educator
References
- "Nobel Laureates". fitz.cam.ac.uk. 21 June 2019.
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