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 NameDegreeNotabilityRefAnthony CaroTom de FrestonPhillip King

Business NameDegreeNotabilityRefIan CheshireJonathan Galassi David Ross Granger Yusuf HamiedMike LynchMartin Sorrell

Humanities and social sciences +NameDegreeNotabilityRefJ. W. BurrowHistorianPercy GardnerBA 1869Harinath DeIndologist, polyglotJohn LelandAntiquaryMadhavan K. PalatHistorianJohn H. PlumbHistorianRoy PorterHistorianJohn Holland RoseHistorianJohn Robert SeeleyHistorianWalter William SkeatPhilologistWilliam Robertson SmithOrientalist, Old Testament scholar, professor of divinityTaw Sein KoBurmese archaeologist

Religion +NameDegreeNotabilityRefFrederick CornwallisArchbishop of CanterburyRichard CheyneyBishop of GloucesterJill DuffBishop of LancasterEdmund GrindalArchbishop of CanterburyMatthew HuttonArchbishop of CanterburyThomas JonesArchbishop of DublinEdmund LawBishop of CarlisleWilliam PaleyHugh Thomas (priest)Armitage RobinsonWilliam Pope (priest)

Politicians, civil servants, royalty and nobility +NameDegreeNotabilityRefAnandamohan BoseIndian nationalist, President of the Indian National CongressSam CarlingMP for North West Cambridgeshirehttps://www.varsity.co.uk/news/27871James Chuter EdeCuthbert EllisonMP for NewcastleHenry FinchMP for CanterburyJames FitzGeraldWilliam GrimstonMPJohn HealyMPJohn Hobart, 2nd Earl of BuckinghamshireLord Lieutenant of IrelandSir John Jardine, 1st BaronetMP for RoxburghshireHeng Swee KeatFormer Deputy Prime Minister of SingaporeLim Hng KiangSingaporean former politician; Former Minister for Trade and IndustryJohn KotelawalaPrime Minister of CeylonManmath Chandra MallikBarrister, writer, and Liberal Party politicianThomas Nelson Jr.Governor of VirginiaZeid bin Ra'adPermanent Representative of Jordan to the United NationsJan SmutsPrime Minister of South AfricaSir William Spring, 2nd BaronetMP for SuffolkThomas Robinson, 2nd Baron GranthamForeign SecretaryThomas WhiteMP for East RetfordWalter WrenOliver WrightRa'ad bin Zeid

Judges +NameNotabilityMian Abdul RashidChief Justice of PakistanMahomed Hameed Ullah KhanChief Justice of Hyderabad State

Science, technology, and mathematics +NameDegreeNotabilityRefJohn George AdamiCharles Alfred BarberJagdish Chandra BoseBA 1884Indian polymath; Known for his contributions to botany and microwave radio opticsJohn ClarkBritish geneticistCharles DarwinEnglish naturalist and biologist; Known for describing the theory of evolutionFrancis DarwinC. J. EliezerPhDMartin EvansBritish biologist; Nobel laureateDuncan HaldaneBritish physicist; Nobel laureateE. W. HobsonLeon IsserlisArchibald LiversidgeBritish chemist and mineralogistJ. Robert OppenheimerDNGAmerican theoretical physicist; Known as the "father of the atomic bomb"Arthur ShipleyBritish zoologistHarry Marshall WardBA 1879; MA 1883; ScD 1892British botanist, mycologist, and plant pathologist

Sportspersons +NameDegreeNotabilityRefPaul BircherBritish rower; Olympic silver medalistClifford Davis Olympic athlete Richard HuttonBritish cricketerGilbert JessopBritish cricketerTony LewisBritish cricketer and rugby player; Later sports journalist and president of the Marylebone Cricket ClubSteve PalmerBritish footballerDavid RobertsonBritish rugby union and golf player; Olympic bronze medalistReggie SchwarzSouth African cricketerSwaranjit SinghIndian cricketerRalph Starr Olympic athlete Kieran WestBritish rower; Olympic gold medalistWilliam WindhamBritish rower

Others +NameDegreeNotabilityRefGeorge Augustus AudenWalter BesantNovelist and historianFrederic ChaseJohn Wesley HalesJohn Scandrett HarfordArtist, abolitionist, and High Sheriff of Cardiganshire

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