Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
University of Cambridge Alumni
International Students
40
% of international students in the university
9000
Total International Students in the university
Cambridge has produced legendary scientists, world leaders, Nobel laureates, writers, and creatives who’ve changed the course of history:
|
Alumni Name |
Notable Achievement / Famous For |
Degree |
Graduating Year |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Isaac Newton |
Mathematician, physicist, laws of motion & gravity |
BA (Mathematics) |
1665 |
|
Charles Darwin |
Naturalist, theory of evolution |
BA (Theology, Natural Sciences) |
1831 |
|
Stephen Hawking |
Theoretical physicist, cosmologist |
PhD (Cosmology) |
1966 |
|
Alan Turing |
Father of modern computer science |
BA (Mathematics) |
1934 |
|
John Maynard Keynes |
Economist, founder of modern macroeconomics |
BA (Mathematics) |
1905 |
|
Sylvia Plath |
Poet, novelist (The Bell Jar) |
Fulbright Scholar (English Lit) |
1957 |
|
Zadie Smith |
Novelist (White Teeth) |
BA (English Lit) |
1997 |
|
Salman Rushdie |
Novelist (Midnight’s Children), Booker Prize winner |
BA (History) |
1968 |
|
Bertrand Russell |
Philosopher, Nobel Prize in Literature |
BA (Mathematics, Philosophy) |
1893 |
|
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Philosopher of language and logic |
PhD (Philosophy) |
1929 |
|
Francis Crick |
Co-discoverer of DNA structure |
PhD (Biophysics) |
1953 |
|
James Watson |
Co-discoverer of DNA structure |
PhD (Zoology) |
1951 |
|
Rosalind Franklin |
Chemist, contributed key X-ray work on DNA |
PhD (Chemistry) |
1945 |
|
Dorothy Hodgkin |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
BA (Chemistry) |
1932 |
|
J.J. Thomson |
Discovered the electron, Nobel laureate |
BA (Mathematics) |
1880 |
|
Ernest Rutherford |
Father of nuclear physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
BA (Chemistry, Physics) |
1895 |
|
Paul Dirac |
Theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate |
BA (Mathematics) |
1923 |
|
John Milton |
Poet (Paradise Lost) |
BA (Classics) |
1629 |
|
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Poet (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) |
BA (Classics, Philosophy) |
1794 |
|
A.A. Milne |
Author of Winnie-the-Pooh |
BA (English Lit) |
1903 |
|
Emma Thompson |
Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter |
BA (English Lit) |
1980 |
|
Hugh Laurie |
Actor (House), comedian, writer |
BA (Anthropology & Archaeology) |
1981 |
|
Stephen Fry |
Actor, writer, comedian |
BA (English Lit) |
1978 |
|
Charles, King of the UK |
Current monarch |
BA (Anthropology, Archaeology, History) |
1970 |
|
Oliver Cromwell |
Military leader, Lord Protector of England |
BA (Law) |
1628 |
|
Jawaharlal Nehru |
First Prime Minister of India |
BA (Natural Sciences, Law) |
1910 |
|
Rajiv Gandhi |
Former Prime Minister of India |
BA (Engineering, Economics) |
1965 |
|
Amartya Sen |
Nobel Prize–winning economist |
PhD (Economics) |
1959 |
|
Frederick Sanger |
Double Nobel Prize in Chemistry (DNA sequencing, proteins) |
PhD (Biochemistry) |
1943 |
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