Armed Forces
- Charles Cornwallis (Clare) Lieutenant General
- Oliver Cromwell (Sidney Sussex) Lord Protector
- Sir Richard Dearlove (Queens'/Pembroke) Head of Secret Intelligence Service
- Arthur Estcourt (Magdalene) First World War Soldier
- Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (St John's) Parliamentary commander-in-chief during the English Civil War
- Billy Fiske (Trinity Hall) Second World War RAF pilot
- Louis Mountbatten (Christ's) First Sea Lord
- Arthur Tedder (Magdalene) First World War RAF Pilot
- General Sir Peter Anthony Wall, KCB, CBE, ADC Gen. Chief of General Staff, British Army, and Chief Royal Engineer
- Frank Ludlow, (Sidney Sussex) Botanist and Army officer
- Siegfried Sassoon, (Clare) Poet, and Lieutenant, Sussex Yeomanry. Awarded the Military Cross for actions during World War I
- Matt Sherman, (Pembroke) Former United States Department of State official and advisor to Generals Stanley McChrystal and David Petraeus
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