List of alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge

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Christ's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its alumni include politicians, lawyers, bishops, poets, and academics.

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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

Degree abbreviations

Arts

NameDegreeNotabilityRef
Anthony Caro [1]
Tom de Freston [2]
Phillip King [3]

Business

NameDegreeNotabilityRef
Ian Cheshire [4]
Jonathan Galassi [5]
David Ross Granger [6]
Yusuf Hamied [7] [8]
Mike Lynch [9]
Martin Sorrell [10]

Humanities and social sciences

NameDegreeNotabilityRef
J. W. Burrow Historian
Percy Gardner BA 1869 [11]
John Leland Antiquary [12]
Madhavan_K._Palat Historian
John H. Plumb Historian [13]
Roy Porter Historian [14]
John Holland Rose Historian
John Robert Seeley Historian [15]
Walter William Skeat Philologist [16]
William Robertson Smith Orientalist, Old Testament scholar, professor of divinity [17]
Taw Sein Ko Burmese archaeologist [18]

Religion

NameDegreeNotabilityRef
Frederick Cornwallis Archbishop of Canterbury [19]
Richard Cheyney Bishop of Gloucester [20]
Jill Duff Bishop of Lancaster
Edmund Grindal Archbishop of Canterbury [21]
Matthew Hutton Archbishop of Canterbury [22]
Thomas Jones Archbishop of Dublin [23]
Edmund Law Bishop of Carlisle [24]
William Paley [25]
Hugh Thomas (priest) [26]
Armitage Robinson [27]

Politicians, civil servants, royalty and nobility

NameDegreeNotabilityRef
Anandamohan Bose Indian nationalist, President of the Indian National Congress [28]
James Chuter Ede [29]
Cuthbert Ellison MP for Newcastle [30]
Henry Finch MP for Canterbury [31]
James FitzGerald [32]
William Grimston MP [33]
John Healy MP [34]
John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire Lord Lieutenant of Ireland [35]
Sir John Jardine, 1st Baronet MP for Roxburghshire [36]
Heng Swee Keat Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore [37]
Lim Hng Kiang Singaporean politician; Minister for Trade and Industry [38]
John Kotelawala Prime Minister of Ceylon
Manmath Chandra Mallik Barrister, writer, and Liberal Party politician [39]
Thomas Nelson Jr. Governor of Virginia [40]
Zeid bin Ra'ad Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations [41]
Jan Smuts Prime Minister of South Africa [42]
Sir William Spring, 2nd Baronet MP for Suffolk
Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham Foreign Secretary [43]
Thomas White MP for East Retford
Walter Wren [44]
Oliver Wright [45]
Ra'ad bin Zeid

Judges

NameNotability
Mian Abdul Rashid Chief Justice of Pakistan
Mahomed Hameed Ullah Khan Chief Justice of Hyderabad State [46]

Science, technology, and mathematics

NameDegreeNotabilityRef
John George Adami [47]
Charles Alfred Barber [48]
Jagdish Chandra Bose BA 1884Indian polymath; Known for his contributions to botany and microwave radio optics [49]
John Clark British geneticist [50]
Charles Darwin English naturalist and biologist; Known for describing the theory of evolution [51]
Francis Darwin [52]
C. J. Eliezer PhD
Martin Evans British biologist; Nobel laureate
Duncan Haldane British physicist; Nobel laureate [53]
E. W. Hobson
Leon Isserlis
Archibald Liversidge British chemist and mineralogist [54]
J. Robert Oppenheimer DNGAmerican theoretical physicist; Known as the "father of the atomic bomb"
Arthur Shipley British zoologist [55]
Harry Marshall Ward BA 1879; MA 1883; ScD 1892British botanist, mycologist, and plant pathologist [56]

Sportspersons

NameDegreeNotabilityRef
Paul Bircher British rower; Olympic silver medalist [57]
Richard Hutton British cricketer
Gilbert Jessop British cricketer [58]
Tony Lewis British cricketer and rugby player; Later sports journalist and president of the Marylebone Cricket Club [59]
Steve Palmer British footballer [60]
David Robertson British rugby union and golf player; Olympic bronze medalist [61]
Reggie Schwarz South African cricketer [62]
Swaranjit Singh Indian cricketer [63]
Kieran West British rower; Olympic gold medalist [64]
William Windham British rower [65]

Others

George Augustus Auden [66]
Walter Besant Novelist and historian [67]
Frederic Chase [68]
John Wesley Hales [69]
John Scandrett Harford Artist, abolitionist, and High Sheriff of Cardiganshire [70]

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  2. ↑ "Tom de Freston". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-09-26.
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