Educationalists
- Theodore Acland (King's) Headmaster of Norwich School
- Syed Ali Akbar (Peterhouse) Major educator of Hyderabad State
- Frederick Attenborough (Emmanuel) Principal of the University of Leicester and the West London Institute of Higher Education
- John Haden Badley (Trinity) Founder and first headmaster of Bedales School
- Isaac Barrow (Peterhouse) Founder of King William's College
- St. Vincent Beechey (Caius) Founder and first headmaster of Rossall School
- Frank Bell (Peterhouse) Founder and first Chairman of the Bell Educational Trust
- Niels Bohr (Trinity) Founder of the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen
- Lee Bollinger (Clare Hall) President of Columbia University and the University of Michigan
- Sir William Cecil (St John's) Responsible for revitalising Stamford School in 1548
- William Grant Broughton (Unknown) Founder of The King's School, Parramatta, Australia's first independent school
- Sir Dominic Cadbury (Trinity) Chancellor of the University of Birmingham
- Henry Cavendish (Peterhouse) Co-founder of the Royal Institution
- Lord William Cavendish (Trinity) Founder of Eastbourne College and Chancellor of London University and Cambridge University
- Hugh Childers (Trinity) Founder of the University of Melbourne
- Sir Samuel Curran (St John's) Founder, first Principle and first Vice-chancellor of the University of Strathclyde
- Emily Davies (Girton) Founder of Girton College, the first residential higher education institution for women
- C. D. Deshmukh (Jesus) Vice-chancellor of the University of Delhi
- Arthur Dunn (King's) Founder and second master of Ludgrove School
- Henry Dunster (Magdalene) First president of Harvard
- Nathaniel Eaton (Trinity) First schoolmaster at Harvard
- John Eliot (Jesus) Founder of Roxbury Latin School, the oldest school in North America
- Anthony Giddens (King's) Director of the London School of Economics
- Malcolm Grant (Clare) Provost and President of University College London
- Eli Gottlieb (St John's) Director of the Mandel Leadership Institute
- Sir Brandon Gough (Jesus) Chancellor of the University of East Anglia and Chairman of the Higher Education Funding Council for England
- Sir Thomas Gresham (Caius) Founder and first benefactor of Gresham College
- Lord Thomas de Grey (St John's) Co-founder of the Royal Institute of British Architects
- Sir Hari Singh Gour (Downing) Founder and Vice-chancellor of the University of Delhi, the University of Nagpur and the University of Sagar
- Sir Peter Hall (St Catharine's) Founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Director of the National Theatre
- Andrew D. Hamilton (Unknown) Current Vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford
- John Harvard (Emmanuel) Co-founder and first benefactor of Harvard
- Elizabeth Phillips Hughes (Newnham) De facto founder of Hughes Hall, Cambridge and campaigner for women's right to education
- David Lloyd Johnston (Unknown) Former President of the University of Waterloo
- Marty Kaplan (Unknown) Professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and founding director of the Norman Lear Center
- Sir John Kingman (Pembroke) Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol and Director of the Isaac Newton Institute
- Thomas Langley (Corpus Christi) Founder of Durham School
- Lord George Lascelles (King's) First Chancellor of the University of York
- Edward Latymer (St John's) Founder of The Latymer School and Latymer Upper School
- Arthur Li (Unknown) Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Thomas Linacre (St John's) Founder of the Royal College of Physicians
- Anthony R. M. Little (Corpus Christi) Headaster of Eton College
- Adam Loftus (Trinity) Co-founder and first Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
- Roger Lupton (King's) Provost of Eton College and founder of Sedbergh School
- Jack Meyer (Unknown) Founder of Millfield School and St Lawrence College, Athens
- Bernard Orchard (Fitzwilliam) Re-founder of St Benedict's School, lead it to become the only Catholic day school of Public School status
- Karl Pearson (King's) Founder of the world's first university statistics department at University College London
- Stephen Perse (Caius) Founder of The Perse School
- John Pye-Smith (Homerton) Co-founder of Mill Hill School
- Alison Richard (Newnham) Provost of Yale University and Vice-chancellor of Cambridge University
- Sir Evelyn Robert de Rothschild (Trinity) Governor of the London School of Economics and council member at RADA
- Shahid Aziz Siddiqi (Wolfson) Vice-chancellor of the Ziauddin Medical University
- Henry Sidgwick (Trinity) Co-founder of the Society for Psychical Research and Newnham College, Cambridge
- Sir Nicholas Shackleton (Clare) Cambridge Professor and President of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA)
- Sheung-Wai Tam (Robinson) President of The Open University of Hong Kong and Chairman of St. Paul's Co-educational College
- Sir Thomas Sutton (Unknown) Founder of Charterhouse School
- John Sperling (King's) Founder of the University of Phoenix
- Edward Thring (King's) Headmaster of Uppingham School and founder of the Headmasters' Conference
- Sir John Tusa (Trinity/Wolfson) Chairman of the University of the Arts London (2007-)
- William Waynflete (King's Hall) Founder of Magdalen College, Oxford and Magdalen College School
- William Wentworth (Peterhouse) De facto founder of the University of Sydney
- John Whitgift (Queens'/Pembroke/Trinity) Founder of Whitgift School and Trinity School and, indirectly, Old Palace School
- Sir David Glyndwr Tudor Williams (Emmanuel/Wolfson) Chancellor of Swansea University and Vice-chancellor of Cambridge University
- James Maurice Wilson (St John's) Headmaster of Clifton College
- Michael Young (Churchill) Co-founder of The Open University
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