List of alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge

This is a list of notable alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge. Some of the alumni noted are connected to Trinity through honorary degrees; not all studied at the college.

Politicians

Sir Francis Bacon lawyer, philosopher; Lord Chancellor

Enoch Powell, Conservative British politician

Lee Hsien-Loong, Third Prime Minister of Singapore

Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India

Vicky Ford, serving Conservative British politician

Prime Ministers

• Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1867–1947), Prime Minister 1923–24, 1924–29, 1935–37 (Conservative)
• Arthur Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848–1930), Prime Minister 1902–1905 (Conservative)
• Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836–1908), Prime Minister 1905–1908 (Liberal)
• Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991), Prime Minister of India, 1984–1989
• Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845), Prime Minister 1830–1834 (Whig); Great Reform Act (1832)
• William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848), Prime Minister 1834, 1835–1841 (Whig)
• Lee Hsien Loong (born 1952), Prime Minister of Singapore, 2004–2024
• Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964), first Prime Minister of India, 1949–1964
• Anand Panyarachun (born 1932), Prime Minister of Thailand, 1991–1992 and again in 1992
• Spencer Perceval (1762–1812), Prime Minister 1809–1812 (Tory); assassinated
• William Waddington (1826–1894), French Prime Minister 1879; archaeologist

United Kingdom

• Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626), lawyer, philosopher; Lord Chancellor
• Gavin Barwell (born 1972), Downing Street Chief of Staff under Theresa May
• Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (also known as Marquess of Hartington) (1833–1908), politician
• Hugh Childers (1827–1896), Australian statesman, then British Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Sir Edward Coke (1552–1634), lawyer, politician; Chief Justice of the King's Bench
• Sir John Coke (1563–1644), politician
• John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington (1920–2005), Master of the Rolls
• Hugh Elliott, UK Ambassador to Spain and Andorra
• Frederick James Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale (1914–2000), British Minister
• Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine (1750–1823), Lord Chancellor, jurist
• Vicky Ford, Conservative MP for Chelmsford
• Sir Michael Foster (1836–1907), physiologist; MP (London University)
• Henry Goulburn (1784–1856), Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Roland Gwynne (1882–1971), politician and lover of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams
• Sir William Vernon Harcourt (1827–1904), Liberal statesman; home secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Douglas Hurd (born 1930), Conservative politician, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary
• George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe (1918–2007), statesman
• Kwasi Kwarteng (born 1975), Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
• James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern (born 1927), Lord Chancellor 1987–1997
• John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland (also known as Lord John Manners) (1818–1906), Conservative statesman
• Sir Philip Miles (1825–1888), politician
• Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809–1885), politician, man of letters
• Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester (1656–1722), Whig statesman
• Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661–1715), founder of Bank of England, 1694; Chancellor of Exchequer
• John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718–1792), First Lord of the Admiralty; is claimed to have invented the sandwich
• George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax (1716–1771), Secretary of State
• Helen Morgan, Liberal Democrat MP for North Shropshire
• Ernest Noel (1831–1931), MP for Dumfries Burghs, 1874–1886
• Anthony Nutting (1920–1999), politician and diplomat; Arabist
• Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham (1781–1851), lawyer, Lord Chancellor, 1846–1850
• Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780–1863), Whig statesman
• Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby (1797–1863), politician
• Enoch Powell (1912–1998), statesman; Minister of Health, 1960–3
• Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765–1802), Whig aristocrat
• Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (1662–1748), politician and Whig Grandee
• John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer (1782–1845), known as Lord Althorp; Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826–1893), Foreign Secretary
• William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw (1918–1999), statesman; Home Secretary, 1979–83

International

• Richard Blumenthal (born 1946), Senior U.S. Senator from Connecticut
• Puran Singh Bundela (born 1950), Indian politician
• Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905–1974), 4th President of Ireland, 1973–74
• Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (1866–1941), administrator; Viceroy of India
• Rahul Gandhi (born 1970), Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) for Wayanad and Former President of the Indian National Congress [1]
• Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey (1851–1917), Governor-General of Canada, 1904–1911
• Charles Hawker (1894–1938), Australian politician
• Thomas Nelson (1738–1789), signatory of the American Declaration of Independence
• James Peter Obeyesekere (1915–2007), aviator and Sri Lankan minister
• Allegra Spender (born 1978), Australian businesswoman and Member of Parliament for Wentworth
• John Winthrop (1587/8–1649), founder and first governor of Massachusetts

Royalty

King Edward VII

King George VI

King Charles III

• King Charles III (born 1948)
• King Edward VII (1841–1910), reigned 1901–1910
• King George VI (1895–1952), reigned 1936–1952
• Prince Ranjitsinhji (1872–1933), cricketer; Indian prince
• Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974), British prince
• Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864-1892), British prince
• Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776-1834), British prince

Clergy

• Alfred Barry (1826–1920), Principal of King's College London (1868–1883), educationalist, and former Bishop of Sydney
• Edward White Benson (1829–1896), Archbishop of Canterbury, 1883–1896
• A. C. Bouquet (1884-1976), theologian, academic and writer
• Arthur Buxton (1882–1958), Chaplain to the Forces and Rector of All Souls Church, Langham Place
• Matthew Blagden Hale, first Bishop of Perth; later Bishop of Brisbane, social and educational pioneer
• Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828–1889), Bishop of Durham; theologian
• Adam Loftus (1533–1605), Archbishop of Armargh and Dublin, Lord Chancellor of Ireland
• Handley Moule (1841–1920), Bishop of Durham; theologian
• Charles Perry (1807–1891), first Bishop of Melbourne
• John A. T. Robinson(1919–1983) theologian; Bishop of Woolwich, Dean of Trinity
• John Sanderson (c.1540–1602), priest and writer on logic
• The Reverend Canon Henry Spencer Stephenson, M.A. (1871–1957), chaplain to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II
• John Stott (1921–2011), Evangelical Church Leader
• John Tiarks (1903–1974), Bishop of Chelmsford
• Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1888), poet, Archbishop of Dublin; theorist of English Language
• Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901), Canon of Westminster, Bishop of Durham
• Robin Woods (1914–1997), Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Worcester
• Justin Welby (born 1956), Archbishop of Canterbury

Law and justice

• Maurice Amos, friend of Bertrand Russell and Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London
• Robert Benson (1797–1844), barrister and judge
• Robert Carnwath, Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill (born 1945), Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
• Sue Carr, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill (born 1965), Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales
• Charles Sargent (1821 - 1900) Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court
• Nicholas Conyngham Tindal (1776–1786), celebrated lawyer and judge
• John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst (1772–1863), lawyer; Lord Chancellor 1827–1830; 1834–1835; 1841–1846
• Kenelm George Digby (1890–1944), High Court judge in India
• Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653), barrister, political philosopher
• Sir Christopher Floyd (born 1951), Lord Justice Floyd, appointed Lord Justice of Appeal in 2013
• Sir Travers Humphreys (1867–1956), judge
• George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (1645–1689), judge; Bloody Assizes; Lord Chancellor
• Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), legal historian
• Sir Frederick Pollock (1845–1937), jurist
• Sir David Richards (born 1951), judge in the High Court
• Paul Sandlands (1878-1962), judge, Recorder of Birmingham
• James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger (1769–1844), judge, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer
• Edward Vernon Utterson (c. 1776–1856), lawyer; one of the Six Clerks in Chancery; literary antiquary, collector and editor
• Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary; Justice of the Supreme Court
• Humphrey Weld (of Lulworth) (1612-1685), lawyer; JP; MP; Gentleman of the Privy Chamber; landowner and recusant

Media and journalists

Alexander Armstrong actor, television presenter and comedian

• Alexander Armstrong (born 1970), actor, television presenter and comedian, known for The Armstrong and Miller Show and hosting Pointless with Richard Osman
• John Drummond (1934–2006), broadcaster, arts administrator, writer, director of BBC Proms and Radio 3
• Ian Fells, energy adviser and broadcaster
• Vanessa Feltz (born 1962), journalist and broadcaster
• Stephen Frears (born 1941), film director
• Mel Giedroyc (born 1968), comedian and television presenter; The Great British Bake Off
• James Harding (born 1969), editor of The Times
• Jonathan King (born 1944), pop impresario jailed for sexually abusing boys
• India Knight (born 1965), author and journalist
• John Lloyd (born 1951), comedy writer and television producer, known for the likes of the Blackadder series, Spitting Image, Not the Nine O'Clock News, The News Quiz and QI
• Richard Osman (born 1970), television presenter and producer, co-host of Pointless
• Eddie Redmayne (born 1982), Oscar-winning actor
• Herbert Vivian (born 1865), writer, journalist and newspaper proprietor

Academics and scientists

Sir Isaac Newton, one of the most influential scientists of all time

James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist

• 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
• Donald M. Friedman (1929–2019), scholar of Renaissance literature at University of California, Berkeley
• Sir Francis Galton (1822–1911), scientist; meteorology, heredity
• Thomas Gaskell (1916-1995), oceanographer and geophysicist
• Tudor Morley Griffith (1951-2011), radiologist
• 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
• Thant Myint-U (1966-), historian
• 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

Mathematicians

Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician

• Sir Michael Atiyah (1929-2019), mathematician, Fields Medal and Abel Prize winner
• Charles Babbage (1791–1871), mathematician, inventor of the automated programmable computer (transferred to Peterhouse before graduating)
• Martin Beale (1928–1985), applied mathematician and statistician, FRS
• Hermann Bondi (1919–2005), mathematician and cosmologist
• Richard Borcherds (born 1959), mathematician, Fields Medallist
• Selig Brodetsky (1888–1954), mathematician, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Arthur Cayley (1821–1895), mathematician; non-Euclidean geometry, invented matrices
• Sydney Chapman (1888–1970), mathematician, geophysicist; kinetic theory, geomagnetism
• W. R. Dean (1896–1973), mathematician and fluid dynamicist
• Sir Timothy Gowers (born 1963), mathematician, Fields Medal winner, combinatorics, Banach space
• G. H. Hardy (1877–1947), mathematician; A Mathematician's Apology, analytic number theory, Savilian Professor of Geometry in Oxford
• Sir James Jeans (1877–1946), astronomer, mathematician; stellar evolution
• John Edensor Littlewood (1885–1977), mathematician; Fourier Series, Zeta Function, Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in Cambridge
• Edward Arthur Milne (1896–1950), mathematician
• Henry Wilbraham (25 July 1825 – 13 February 1883) periodic function.
• Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871), mathematician; symbolic logic
• Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727), mathematician, physicist; MP (Cambridge University)
• John Pell (1610–1685), mathematician
• Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920), mathematician; analytic number theory, elliptic integrals
• John Frankland Rigby (1933–2014), a specialist in complex analysis
• James H. Wilkinson (1919–1986), mathematician
• John William Strutt (1842-1919), The Lord Rayleigh, mathematician

Philosophers

Bertrand Russell, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic

• Simon Blackburn (born 1944), philosopher
• C. D. Broad (1887–1971), philosopher
• Ian Hacking (1936–2023), Canadian philosopher
• J. M. E. McTaggart (1866-1925)
• G. E. Moore (1873–1958), philosopher
• Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930), philosopher, mathematician, economist
• Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), philosopher
• Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900), philosopher, major proponent of women's colleges
• A. N. Whitehead (1861–1947), philosopher, mathematician
• Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher

Physicists

• Sir George Airy (1801–1895), astronomer, geophysicist
• Niels Bohr (1885–1962), quantum physicist
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995), astrophysicist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Freeman Dyson (1923–2020), physicist, proponent of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, Templeton Prize winner
• Thomas Eckersley (1886–1959), theoretical physicist and expert on radio waves
• Otto Frisch (1904–1979), nuclear physicist; first used the term 'nuclear fission'
• Louis Harold Gray (1905–1965), invented the field of radiobiology; namesake of unit of absorbed dose Gray
• J. B. Gunn (1928–2008), physicist; inventor of the Gunn diode
• Thomas Gold (1920–2004), astrophysicist
• Brian Josephson (born 1940), physicist; predicted the Josephson effect
• James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), physicist; electromagnetism
• William George Penney (1909–1991), nuclear physicist
• John Polkinghorne (1930–2021), physicist, religious thinker, Templeton Prize winner
• Rajendran Raja (1948-2014), high-energy particle physicist who played a key role in the discovery of the top quark
• Martin Ryle (1918–1984), radio astronomer; invented aperture synthesis
• Dennis William Sciama (1926–1999), physicist; played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War
• Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886–1975), physicist, mathematician; fluid dynamics, crystals
• Sir George Paget Thomson (1892–1975), physicist; electron diffraction
• Sir Peter Williams, physicist

Writers

Lord Tennyson, poet

Lord Byron, poet

Muhammad Iqbal, Islamic poet and philosopher

A. A. Milne, writer, author of Winnie the Pooh children's novels

• Clive Bell (1881–1964), art and literary critic; husband of Vanessa
• Charles Astor Bristed (1820–1874), American author and scholar
• George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788–1824), poet; "She Walks in Beauty", Don Juan
• Edward Hallet Carr (1892–1982), writer and international relations theorist
• Erskine Childers (1870–1922), writer, Irish Nationalist; The Riddle of the Sands
• Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), poet, dramatist – The Mistress
• George Crabbe (1754–1832), poet; did not matriculate
• Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), writer, poet, occultist, and 'Magician'; Magick in Theory and Practice
• Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), playwright; The Brothers, The West Indian
• Warwick Deeping (1877–1950), novelist
• Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1566–1601), soldier, courtier to Elizabeth I; executed for rebellion
• John Dryden (1631–1700), Poet Laureate; "Absalom and Achitophel"; translator of Virgil
• Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883), poet; Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
• Giles Fletcher (1588–1623), poet; "Christ's Victory" and "Triumph"
• George Gascoigne (1525–1577), poet, dramatist; "Jocasta", "The Glasse of Government"
• Edmund Gosse (1845–1928), poet, critic; On Viol and Flute
• Thom Gunn (1929–2004), Modernist poet
• George Herbert (1593–1633), poet
• Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859), poet, critic
• A. E. Housman (1859–1936), poet, classical scholar
• Henry Hyndman (1842–1921), English writer and politician
• Muhammad Iqbal (1875–1938), Islamic poet and philosopher
• Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1861–1938), poet, historian and senior civil servant
• Nathaniel Lee (1649–1692), dramatist; The Rival Queens
• John Lehmann (1907–1987), poet, man of letters; inaugurated The London Magazine
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873), novelist; The Last Days of Pompeii; politician
• Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), poet; "Horatian Ode", "The Rehearsal Transpros'd"; MP (Hull)
• Frederick Maurice (1805–1872), theologian, writer, Christian Socialist
• A. A. Milne (1882–1956), writer; Winnie-the-Pooh
• Nicholas Monsarrat (1910–1979), novelist; The Cruel Sea, Three Corvettes
• Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian and English novelist; Lolita
• Lenrie Peters (1932–2009), Gambian novelist, poet and educationist
• Thomas Randolph (1605–1635), poet, dramatist
• T. J. Cobden Sanderson (1840–1922), bookbinder; Arts and Crafts Movement pioneer
• Sir Henry Spelman (1562–1641), antiquary; Reliquiae Spelmannianae
• Lytton Strachey (1880–1932), biographer; Eminent Victorians; Bloomsbury Group
• Sir John Suckling (1609–1642), poet, dramatist
• Tom Taylor (1817–1880), Scottish dramatist; editor of Punch
• Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809–1892), poet – "Maud", "In Memoriam"
• William M. Thackeray (1811–1863), novelist; Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond (dropped out after second year)
• Sir George Trevelyan, 4th Baronet (1906–1996), educator, new age thinker and writer
• George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628–1687), wit, politician, dramatist; The Rehearsal; member of the 'Cabal'
• Raymond Williams (1921–1988), Marxist critic, novelist; The Country and the City
• Leonard Woolf (1880–1969), writer; husband of Virginia Woolf; Bloomsbury Group
• Geoffrey Winthrop Young (1876–1958), mountaineer and author

Sports

• George 'Gubby' Allen (1902–1989), cricketer – captained England; played in Bodyline series
• Sir George Branson (1871–1951), Cambridge rowing blue and High Court judge
• Wing Commander Alan Cassidy MBE, born 1949. Trinity, 1967. National Aerobatic Champion, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003.
• Harry Chester Goodhart (1858–1895), twice FA Cup winner and England international footballer; Professor of Humanities at Edinburgh University
• Imogen Grant, world and Olympic champion rower
• Geoffrey Hopley, cricketer
• Dar Lyon (1898–1964), first class cricketer; Chief Justice of the Seychelles
• Philip Morton (1857–1925), cricketer and schoolmaster
• Sir Peter Scott (1909–1989), artist, ornithologist; Olympic sailor (1936)
• Rev. Henry Holmes Stewart (1847–1937), FA Cup winner in 1873
• Charles Plumpton Wilson (1859–1938), England footballer and Rugby player
• H. de Winton, created the first formal set of rules for Association football (The Cambridge Rules)
• Maxwell Woosnam (1892–1965), Olympic and Wimbledon lawn tennis champion and England national football team captain
• Andy Whittall, Zimbabwe cricketer

Spies

Kim Philby, Soviet spy

• Anthony Blunt (1907–1983), Soviet spy; art historian
• Guy Burgess (1910–1963), Soviet spy and traitor
• John Cairncross (1913-1995), double agent; communist
• Nicholas Elliott (1916-1994), British spy
• Michael Greenberg (1914–1992), Foreign Affairs Economist U.S. Foreign Economic Administration; Soviet spy
• Kim Philby (1911–1988), double agent; communist
• Michael Whitney Straight (1916–2004), US magazine publisher, presidential speechwriter, Soviet spy

Business

Francis Martineau Lupton, Businessman, landowner and politician

• Norman Blackwell, Baron Blackwell, (born 1952), businessman and politician
• Sir Andrew Thomas Cahn (born 1951), Vice Chairman for Public Policy of Nomura Group; former CEO of UK Trade & Investment
• Alfred Clayton Cole (1854–1920), Governor of the Bank of England
• Sanjeev Gupta (born 1971), businessman
• Sir Robin Ibbs (1926–2014), banker
• David Layton (1914–2009), National Coal Board economist and industrial relations advisor
• Francis Martineau Lupton (1848-1921), businessman, landowner, politician and great-great-grandfather of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
• Sir Michael Adrian Richards (born 1951), former UK National Cancer Director; Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Care Quality Commission, from May 2013
• Rod Smallwood (born 1950), co-manager of Iron Maiden and co-founder of Sanctuary Records
• Andy Taylor (born 1951), co-manager of Iron Maiden and co-founder of Sanctuary Records
• John Tusa (born 1936), managing director of BBC World Service
• Neville Wadia (1911–1996), Bombay industrialist and philanthropist
• Simon Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise (born 1967), CEO of Next plc

Military

• Brigadier-General Charles Strathavon Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby (1870–1949), soldier
• James Yorke Scarlett (1799–1871), British general and hero of the Crimean War
• David Stirling (1915–1990), founder of the Special Air Service

Others

• Christopher Alexander (1936–2022), architect, author of The Timeless Way of Building and father of the design patterns movement
• Edward Chancellor, investment strategist and financial historian
• Hubert Chesshyre, retired British officer of arms found to have committed child sexual abuse
• Terry Eagleton (born 1943), literary critic
• Nathaniel Eaton (1609–1674), first schoolmaster at Harvard
• James Clerk Maxwell Garnett CBE (1880–1958), educationist, barrister, and peace campaigner
• Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh (1878–1962), Indian Civil Service officer
• Antony Gormley (born 1950), sculptor, best known for Angel of the North 1968–71
• Stephen Greenhalgh (born 1967), Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime in London
• Michael Gurstein (1944–2017), Canadian community informatician
• Peter Llewellyn Gwynn-Jones (1940–2010), Garter Principal King of Arms, 1995–2010
• Sir Stuart Milner-Barry (1906–1995), chess player, World War II codebreaker and civil servant
• William Smith O'Brien (1803–1864), Irish Nationalist
• Baron Kishichiro Okura (1882–1963), Japanese playboy and motor racing enthusiast
• St. John Philby (1885–1960), explorer of Arabia; father of Kim
• Alexander Ramsay of Mar (1919–2001), great-grandson of Queen Victoria
• Sir Benegal Narsing Rau (1887–1952), Indian Civil Service officer
• Robert Vane Russell (1873-1915), Indian Civil Service officer and writer
• Anthony and Peter Shaffer (born 1926; Anthony died 2001, Peter died 2016), dramatists
• John Sowerby (1823-1902), botanist, writer and early member of the Alpine Club
• Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924), composer, organist
• Thomas Francis Wade (1818–1895), diplomat; developed a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese that formed the basis for the Wade–Giles system
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), composer; Sea Symphony, Pilgrim's Progress