List of alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge

This is a list of alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge.


 * M.H. Abrams, literary theorist and critic
 * J.R. Ackerley, writer and poet
 * Simon Ambrose, winner of The Apprentice (UK series three)
 * Richard Atkinson, Bishop of Bedford
 * Giles Baring, cricketer
 * Simon Barrington-Ward, Bishop of Coventry, 1985–1997
 * Peter Beck, soldier and schoolmaster
 * Henry Bellingham, Baron Bellingham, Member of Parliament for North West Norfolk, former junior minister at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
 * A. C. Benson, librettist of Land of Hope and Glory
 * Michael Binyon, foreign correspondent for The Times, now Leader Writer
 * Patrick Blackett, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
 * Sir Nicholas Blake, Judge of the High Court of Justice
 * Norman Blake, Middle English and Early Modern English language and literature scholar
 * Sir John Boardman, archaeologist, Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology
 * John Bromley, 17th-century Catholic convert and translator of The Catechism for the Curats, composed by the Decree of the Council of Trent, faithfully translated into English (London 1687)
 * Charles Vyner Brooke, last White Rajah of Sarawak
 * Sir Simon Bryan, Judge of the High Court of Justice
 * Anthony Bull, transport engineer
 * David Burghley, Olympic champion, 400m hurdles
 * Clemency Burton-Hill, broadcaster, novelist, journalist, and violinist
 * Anthony Caesar, English priest and composer
 * Sir David Calcutt, former Master and barrister
 * Henry Chadwick KBE, former head of Christ Church, Oxford
 * Sir John Murray Chadwick, Lord Justice of Appeal
 * Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani, Chief Justice of Bombay High Court
 * Greg Clark, Member of Parliament for Tunbridge Wells, former Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and former President of the Board of Trade
 * Arthur Cohen, lawyer and Liberal politician; first Jewish graduate of Cambridge University
 * Peter Cowie, film historian
 * Stella Creasy, Member of Parliament for Walthamstow
 * Joe Crowley, TV presenter and broadcast journalist
 * Robyn Curnow, South African journalist and news anchor
 * Kulada Charan Das Gupta, Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court
 * Katie Derham, TV newsreader
 * Monty Don, gardener
 * William Donaldson, creator of Henry Root
 * Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard University
 * William Empson, literary critic and poet
 * Julian Fellowes, actor and Academy Award-winning screenwriter
 * Eric Fernihough, Brooklands and world motorcycle speed record holder
 * Peter Fudakowski, Academy Award-winning film producer
 * Bamber Gascoigne, TV presenter, University Challenge
 * Robin Gibson, former Chief Curator, National Portrait Gallery, art historian & writer
 * Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, member of the British Royal Family
 * Prince William of Gloucester, member of the British Royal Family
 * Maurice Goldhaber, American physicist
 * Siram Govindarajulu, founding vice-chancellor of Sri Venkateswara University
 * David Grainger, British venture capitalist
 * Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg, British politician and colonial administrator; older brother of Robert
 * Sir Robert Grant (MP), British lawyer, politician, and hymnist; younger brother of Charles
 * Sir Christopher Greenwood QC, Judge of the International Court of Justice (2009-2018)
 * Antony Grey, pioneer gay rights activist
 * Loyd Grossman, chef, musician, television presenter, sauce maker
 * Karl W. Gruenberg, British mathematician
 * Sir Norman Hartnell, couturier and dressmaker to the Queen
 * Abdul Khalek Hassouna, Egyptian politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the Arab League
 * Gavin Hastings OBE, rugby international
 * Julian Haviland, former Political Editor of ITN and The Times newspaper
 * Nick Herbert, Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs, former Minister of State for Justice
 * Adam Holloway, Member of Parliament for Gravesham
 * Sir Antony Jay, author, Yes Minister
 * Richard Johnson, first chaplain to Australia
 * Igor Judge, Baron Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
 * Akhtar Hameed Khan, social scientist
 * Charles Kingsley, author of The Water Babies and Regius Professor of Modern History
 * R. F. Kuang, award-winning Chinese-American fantasy writer and author of The Poppy War series
 * Charles La Trobe, first lieutenant-governor of Victoria, Australia
 * Lewis H. Lapham, American writer, editor of Lapham's Quarterly; former editor of Harper's Magazine
 * Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, air vice marshal, Battle of Britain
 * Chris Lintott, astrophysicist
 * Selwyn Lloyd, former Foreign Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Commons
 * Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown, former United Nations Deputy Secretary-General and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
 * George Mallory, mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s
 * William S. Mann, music critic on The Times, 1948–82
 * John Manningham, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century diarist, lawyer; noted for recording details of an original performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
 * Kingsley Martin, journalist
 * Tristan McConnell, journalist
 * John McPhee, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer
 * Sir Samuel Morland, diplomat, spy, inventor, mathematician
 * Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, former president of the International Olympic Committee
 * Roger Morris, electrical engineer
 * Sir Andrew Morritt, Chancellor of the High Court of Justice
 * Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, current King or Kabaka of Buganda
 * Sir Edward Frederick Mutesa II, former King or Kabaka of Buganda and President of Uganda
 * Mike Newell, film director whose works include Four Weddings and a Funeral and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
 * Adam Nicolson, historian and author, son of Nigel Nicolson and grandson of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
 * C. K. Ogden, literary critic
 * Sir Jonathan Parker, Lord Justice of Appeal
 * Charles Stewart Parnell (did not graduate), Irish nationalist
 * Samuel Pepys, naval administrator, MP, and diarist
 * Allen Dain Percival CBE, musician and composer; Principal of the Guildhall School of Music; executive chairman of Stainer & Bell
 * Sir Simon Picken, Judge of the High Court of Justice
 * Ardal Powell, maker and player of historical flutes
 * Francis Pym, former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
 * Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury
 * Julian Rathbone, English novelist
 * Sir Michael Redgrave, actor
 * Jon Ridgeon, former British Olympic athlete and current CEO of World Athletics
 * I.A. Richards, literary critic
 * Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian
 * Warren Sach, United Nations executive
 * Sir Frederic Salusbury, editor, Daily Herald
 * Rina Sawayama, singer
 * Nicholas Shakespeare, novelist
 * Charles Shaughnessy, 5th Baron Shaughnessy, British actor
 * John Simpson, journalist
 * Nicholas Snowman, arts administrator and chairman of the jewellers Wartski
 * Sir Christopher Staughton, Lord Justice of Appeal
 * John Young Stratton, author, essayist, social reformer and campaigner against rural poverty
 * Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, World War II
 * John Tedder, 2nd Baron Tedder, Professor of Chemistry, expert in free radical chemistry
 * Nanavira Thera, Buddhist monk
 * Charit Tingsabadh, Thai economist
 * John Treasure, advertising executive
 * Philip Vellacott, classical scholar
 * Roger Vignoles, concert pianist and accompanist
 * Rob Wainwright, rugby international
 * Geoffrey Webb, art historian
 * Geoffrey Whitney, sixteenth-century poet and emblematist
 * Wong Yan-lung, Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong