Notable Alumni
See also: Category:Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge| Name | Birth | Death | Career |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Ward | 1843 | 1925 | Psychologist and philosopher, President of the Aristotelian Society |
| Sir Charles Scott Sherrington | 1857 | 1952 | Winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for groundbreaking work on the function of the neuron |
| Joseph Baptista | 1864 | 1930 | Founder of the Indian Home Rule Movement and Mayor of Bombay |
| A. G. M. Michell | 1870 | 1959 | Mechanical engineer, inventor of the thrust bearing and the tilting-pad fluid bearing |
| Albert Szent-Györgyi | 1893 | 1986 | Winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Medicine, discoverer of Vitamin C |
| Subhas Chandra Bose | 1897 | 1945 | President of the Indian National Congress and leader of the Indian National Army |
| Sir J. Eric S. Thompson | 1898 | 1975 | World's leading scholar on the pre-Columbian Maya civilization |
| Bernard Orchard | 1910 | 2006 | Biblical scholar and translator, General Secretary of the World Catholic Federation |
| Shankar Dayal Sharma | 1918 | 1999 | Ninth President of India (1992–1997) |
| Lee Kuan Yew | 1923 | First and longest-serving Prime Minister of Singapore (1959–1990) | |
| Sir Louis Blom-Cooper | 1926 | High Court lawyer, author, last Chairman of the Press Council, co-founder of Amnesty International | |
| César Milstein | 1927 | 2002 | Winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for producing monoclonal antibodies |
| Lord St John of Fawsley | 1929 | 2012 | British life peer, Leader of the House of Commons and Minister of State for the Arts |
| Humphrey Burton | 1931 | Emmy Award-winning music broadcaster and director | |
| Sir Kenneth Eaton | 1934 | British Controller of the Navy (1989–1994) | |
| Nasir Aslam Zahid | 1935 | Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan | |
| Gordon Redding | 1937 | Prominent specialist on China and Founder of the Hong Kong University Business School | |
| Lord Lamont of Lerwick | 1942 | British life peer, former Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
| Joseph Stiglitz | 1943 | World Bank Chief Economist, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics | |
| Vince Cable | 1943 | Current British Business Secretary and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats | |
| Sir Dennis Byron | 1943 | President of the Caribbean Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | |
| David Atherton | 1944 | Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, founder of the Mainly Mozart Festival | |
| David Starkey | 1945 | Television historian, expert authority on the Tudor Dynasty, regular on Question Time and The Moral Maze | |
| Nick Drake | 1948 | 1974 | Popular singer-songwriter |
| Andrew Li | 1948 | Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong | |
| Ahmed Rashid | 1948 | Prominent Pakistani journalist and author, writer of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia | |
| Dinesh Dhamija | 1950 | Entrepreneur, founder of the pioneering online travel agency Ebookers | |
| David Leakey | 1952 | Director General of the European Union Military Staff and Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod | |
| Sir Peter Bazalgette | 1953 | Media expert, Creative Director at the global TV firm Endemol, known for Big Brother | |
| Bernard Hogan-Howe | 1957 | Current Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service | |
| Tim Sullivan | 1958 | Film and television director, known for Letters to Juliet and Jack and Sarah | |
| Brian Paddick | 1958 | Former Chief Superintendent at Scotland Yard, Lib Dem candidate for Mayor of London | |
| Christian Purslow | 1963 | Managing Director of Liverpool Football Club and Founder of MidOcean Partners private equity firm | |
| Lord Knight of Weymouth | 1965 | British life peer, former Employment Minister and Education Minister | |
| Lee Hall | 1966 | Playwright, Tony Award-winning writer of Billy Elliot | |
| Giles Foden | 1967 | Novelist and journalist, Whitbread Award-winning writer of The Last King of Scotland | |
| Andy Burnham | 1970 | British Labour politician, former Secretary of State for Health | |
| Maurizio Giuliano | 1975 | Italian journalist, author and record-breaking travel writer | |
| Andrew Gower | 1978 | Video game developer, co-founder of Jagex, responsible for writing the online gaming phenomenon RuneScape | |
| Catherine Banner | 1989 | Fantasy author | |
| Arran Fernandez | 1995 | Mathematics prodigy, youngest ever GCSE recipient (aged 5) and youngest Cambridge University entrant in 237 years (aged 15) |
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