Notable Former Students
See also: Category:Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge| Name | Birth Year | Death Year | Career |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desiderius Erasmus | 1466 | 1536 | Humanist, theologian, philosopher |
| John Frith | 1503 | 1533 | Writer, church reformer |
| John Lambert | 1539 | Theologian, heretic | |
| John Whitgift | 1530 | 1604 | Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Thomas Digges | 1546 | 1595 | English mathematician and astronomer; first to expound the Copernican system in English |
| Sir Oliver Cromwell | 1566 | 1655 | English landowner, lawyer and politician member of the House of Commons |
| John Hall | 1575 | 1635 | Notable physician |
| John Goodwin | 1594 | 1665 | Preacher, theologian and prolific author |
| Thomas Horton | 1603 | 1649 | Prominent leader in the English Civil War, commissioner of the High Court of Justice. |
| Charles Bridges | 1794 | 1869 | Preacher, theologian and writer, leader of the Evangelical Party of the Church of England. |
| Thomas Hingston | 1799 | 1837 | Antiquarian, physician, writer |
| Alexander Crummell | 1819 | 1898 | Priest, African nationalist |
| Thomas Nettleship Staley | 1823 | 1898 | Bishop |
| Frank Rutter | 1836 | 1937 | Art critic, curator, writer, activist |
| Osborne Reynolds | 1842 | 1912 | Innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics, heat transfer |
| James Niven | 1851 | 1925 | Physician |
| Charles Villiers Stanford | 1852 | 1924 | Music composer |
| Charles Seltman | 1886 | 1957 | Author and Archeologist |
| Sir Roland Penrose | 1900 | 1984 | Artist, historian and poet, major promoter and collector of modern art and an associate of the surrealists in the United Kingdom. |
| T. H. White | 1906 | 1964 | Writer, best known for his sequence of Arthurian novels. |
| Sir Arthur Mooring | 1908 | 1969 | Knight of the British Empire |
| Lesslie Newbigin | 1909 | 1998 | Bishop, missiologist, writer |
| M. S. Bartlett | 1910 | 2002 | Statistician; made significant contributions to the analysis spatial and temporal patterns |
| Cyril Bibby | 1914 | 1987 | Biologist, one of the first sexologists |
| Arnold W. G. Kean | 1914 | 2000 | Pioneer of civil aviation law |
| Abba Eban | 1915 | 2002 | Israeli diplomat and politician |
| Sir Stephen Brown | 1924 | Former President of the Family Division of the High Court. | |
| Kenneth Wedderburn | 1927 | British politician, member of the House of Lords | |
| Peter Redgrove | 1932 | 2003 | Poet |
| David Hatch | 1939 | 2007 | BBC Radio executive |
| Richard Dearlove | 1945 | Head of MI6 | |
| Lord Eatwell | 1945 | British economist | |
| Derek Lewis | 1946 | Chief Executive of the UK Prison Service | |
| Stephen Lander | 1947 | Head of MI5 | |
| Richard Hickox | 1948 | 2008 | Conductor of choral, orchestral and operatic music. |
| John E. Baldwin | 1949 | Pioneer of radio astronomy | |
| Graham Swift | 1949 | Author | |
| Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh | 1950 | Prime Minister of Jordan | |
| John McCallum | 1950 | Canadian politician and academic | |
| Charles Leslie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton | 1951 | Lord Chancellor, Secretary of State for Justice | |
| Nicholas Campion | 1953 | Cultural historian | |
| Paul Greengrass | 1955 | Writer and film director | |
| Michael Foale | 1957 | Astrophysicist and astronaut | |
| Stephen Fry | 1957 | Comedian, writer, actor, novelist | |
| John Sherrington | 1958 | Auxiliary Bishop-elect of Westminster | |
| Andrew Bailey | 1959 | Executive Director and Chief Cashier of the Bank of England. | |
| Peter Jukes | 1960 | Author, playwright, literary critic | |
| David Ruffley | 1962 | Member of Parliament | |
| Tom Holland | 1968 | Author and historian | |
| Stephen Kinnock | 1970 | Son of former Labour Party leader, husband of Danish Prime Minister and a director of the World Economic Forum | |
| Sam Lotu-Iiga | 1970 | New Zealand Member of Parliament | |
| Emily Maitlis | 1970 | Newsreader and journalist | |
| Liz Kendall | 1971 | Labour Party frontbench politician | |
| Vuk Jeremić | 1975 | Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| Khalid Abdalla | 1980 | Actor known for United 93, Kite Runner and Green Zone | |
| Mark Watson | 1980 | Comedian, novelist | |
| Lindsay Ashford | Journalist and novelist, the first woman to graduate from Queens' College | ||
| Lucy Caldwell | 1981 | Novelist and playwright | |
| Simon Bird | 1984 | Actor in E4 comedy series The Inbetweeners | |
| Hannah Murray | 1989 | Actress in award-winning teenage series Skins |
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