List of alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge

This is a list of notable alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge. Some of the alumni noted are connected to Trinity through honorary degrees; not all studied at the college.

Prime Ministers

 * Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1867–1947), Prime Minister 1923–24, 1924–29, 1935–37 (Conservative)
 * Arthur Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848–1930), Prime Minister 1902–1905 (Conservative)
 * Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836–1908), Prime Minister 1905–1908 (Liberal)
 * Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991), Prime Minister of India, 1984–1989
 * Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845), Prime Minister 1830–1834 (Whig); Great Reform Act (1832)
 * William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848), Prime Minister 1834, 1835–1841 (Whig)
 * Lee Hsien Loong (born 1952), Prime Minister of Singapore, 2004–present
 * Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964), first Prime Minister of India, 1949–1964
 * Anand Panyarachun (born 1932), Prime Minister of Thailand, 1991–1992 and again in 1992
 * Spencer Perceval (1762–1812), Prime Minister 1809–1812 (Tory); assassinated
 * William Waddington (1826–1894), French Prime Minister 1879; archaeologist

United Kingdom

 * Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626), lawyer, philosopher; Lord Chancellor
 * Gavin Barwell (born 1972), Downing Street Chief of Staff under Theresa May
 * Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (also known as Marquess of Hartington) (1833–1908), politician
 * Hugh Childers (1827–1896), Australian statesman, then British Chancellor of the Exchequer
 * Sir Edward Coke (1552–1634), lawyer, politician; Chief Justice of the King's Bench
 * Sir John Coke (1563–1644), politician
 * John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington (1920–2005), Master of the Rolls
 * Hugh Elliott, UK Ambassador to Spain and Andorra
 * Frederick James Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale (1914–2000), British Minister
 * Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine (1750–1823), Lord Chancellor, jurist
 * Vicky Ford, Conservative MP for Chelmsford
 * Sir Michael Foster (1836–1907), physiologist; MP (London University)
 * Henry Goulburn (1784–1856), Chancellor of the Exchequer
 * Roland Gwynne (1882–1971), politician and lover of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams
 * Sir William Vernon Harcourt (1827–1904), Liberal statesman; home secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer
 * Douglas Hurd (born 1930), Conservative politician, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary
 * George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe (1918–2007), statesman
 * Kwasi Kwarteng (born 1975), Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
 * James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern (born 1927), Lord Chancellor 1987–1997
 * John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland (also known as Lord John Manners) (1818–1906), Conservative statesman
 * Sir Philip Miles (1825–1888), politician
 * Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809–1885), politician, man of letters
 * Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester (1656–1722), Whig statesman
 * Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661–1715), founder of Bank of England, 1694; Chancellor of Exchequer
 * John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718–1792), First Lord of the Admiralty; is claimed to have invented the sandwich
 * George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax (1716–1771), Secretary of State
 * Helen Morgan, Liberal Democrat MP for North Shropshire
 * Ernest Noel (1831–1931), MP for Dumfries Burghs, 1874–1886
 * Anthony Nutting (1920–1999), politician and diplomat; Arabist
 * Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham (1781–1851), lawyer, Lord Chancellor, 1846–1850
 * Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780–1863), Whig statesman
 * Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby (1797–1863), politician
 * Enoch Powell (1912–1998), statesman; Minister of Health, 1960–3
 * Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765–1802), Whig aristocrat
 * Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (1662–1748), politician and Whig Grandee
 * John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer (1782–1845), known as Lord Althorp; Chancellor of the Exchequer
 * Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826–1893), Foreign Secretary
 * William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw (1918–1999), statesman; Home Secretary, 1979–83

International

 * Richard Blumenthal (born 1946), Senior U.S. Senator from Connecticut
 * Puran Singh Bundela (born 1950), Indian politician
 * Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905–1974), 4th President of Ireland, 1973–74
 * Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (1866–1941), administrator; Viceroy of India
 * Rahul Gandhi (born 1970), Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) for Wayanad and Former President of the Indian National Congress
 * Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey (1851–1917), Governor-General of Canada, 1904–1911
 * Charles Hawker (1894–1938), Australian politician
 * Thomas Nelson (1738–1789), signatory of the American Declaration of Independence
 * James Peter Obeyesekere (1915–2007), aviator and Sri Lankan minister
 * Allegra Spender (born 1978), Australian businesswoman and Member of Parliament for Wentworth
 * John Winthrop (1587/8–1649), founder and first governor of Massachusetts

Royalty

 * King Charles III (born 1948)
 * King Edward VII (1841–1910), reigned 1901–1910
 * King George VI (1895–1952), reigned 1936–1952
 * Prince Ranjitsinhji (1872–1933), cricketer; Indian prince
 * Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974), British prince
 * Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864-1892), British prince
 * Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776-1834), British prince

Clergy

 * Alfred Barry (1826–1920), Principal of King's College London (1868–1883), educationalist, and former Bishop of Sydney
 * Edward White Benson (1829–1896), Archbishop of Canterbury, 1883–1896
 * A. C. Bouquet (1884-1976), theologian, academic and writer
 * Arthur Buxton (1882–1958), Chaplain to the Forces and Rector of All Souls Church, Langham Place
 * Matthew Blagden Hale, first Bishop of Perth; later Bishop of Brisbane, social and educational pioneer
 * Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828–1889), Bishop of Durham; theologian
 * Adam Loftus (1533–1605), Archbishop of Armargh and Dublin, Lord Chancellor of Ireland
 * Handley Moule (1841–1920), Bishop of Durham; theologian
 * Charles Perry (1807–1891), first Bishop of Melbourne
 * John A. T. Robinson(1919–1983) theologian; Bishop of Woolwich, Dean of Trinity
 * John Sanderson (c.1540–1602), priest and writer on logic
 * The Reverend Canon Henry Spencer Stephenson, M.A. (1871–1957), chaplain to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II
 * John Stott (1921–2011), Evangelical Church Leader
 * John Tiarks (1903–1974), Bishop of Chelmsford
 * Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1888), poet, Archbishop of Dublin; theorist of English Language
 * Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901), Canon of Westminster, Bishop of Durham
 * Robin Woods (1914–1997), Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Worcester
 * Justin Welby (born 1956), Archbishop of Canterbury

Law and justice

 * Maurice Amos, friend of Bertrand Russell and Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London
 * Robert Benson (1797–1844), barrister and judge
 * Robert Carnwath, Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill (born 1945), Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
 * Sue Carr, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill (born 1965), Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales
 * Charles Sargent (1821 - 1900) Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court
 * Nicholas Conyngham Tindal (1776–1786), celebrated lawyer and judge
 * John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst (1772–1863), lawyer; Lord Chancellor 1827–1830; 1834–1835; 1841–1846
 * Kenelm George Digby (1890–1944), High Court judge in India
 * Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653), barrister, political philosopher
 * Sir Christopher Floyd (born 1951), Lord Justice Floyd, appointed Lord Justice of Appeal in 2013
 * Sir Travers Humphreys (1867–1956), judge
 * George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (1645–1689), judge; Bloody Assizes; Lord Chancellor
 * Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), legal historian
 * Sir Frederick Pollock (1845–1937), jurist
 * Sir David Richards (born 1951), judge in the High Court
 * Paul Sandlands (1878-1962), judge, Recorder of Birmingham
 * James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger (1769–1844), judge, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer
 * Edward Vernon Utterson (c. 1776–1856), lawyer; one of the Six Clerks in Chancery; literary antiquary, collector and editor
 * Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary; Justice of the Supreme Court
 * Humphrey Weld (of Lulworth) (1612-1685), lawyer; JP; MP; Gentleman of the Privy Chamber; landowner and recusant

Media and journalists

 * Alexander Armstrong (born 1970), actor, television presenter and comedian, known for The Armstrong and Miller Show and hosting Pointless with Richard Osman
 * John Drummond (1934–2006), broadcaster, arts administrator, writer, director of BBC Proms and Radio 3
 * Ian Fells, energy adviser and broadcaster
 * Vanessa Feltz (born 1962), journalist and broadcaster
 * Stephen Frears (born 1941), film director
 * Mel Giedroyc (born 1968), comedian and television presenter; The Great British Bake Off
 * James Harding (born 1969), editor of The Times
 * Jonathan King (born 1944), pop impresario jailed for sexually abusing boys
 * India Knight (born 1965), author and journalist
 * John Lloyd (born 1951), comedy writer and television producer, known for the likes of the Blackadder series, Spitting Image, Not the Nine O'Clock News, The News Quiz and QI
 * Richard Osman (born 1970), television presenter and producer, co-host of Pointless
 * Eddie Redmayne (born 1982), Oscar-winning actor
 * Herbert Vivian (born 1865), writer, journalist and newspaper proprietor

Academics and scientists

 * John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902), historian
 * Joseph Arthur Arkwright (1864–1944), bacteriologist, FRS
 * Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859), historian, politician, and essayist
 * John Haden Badley (1865–1967), educationalist, founder (1893) and headmaster (1893–1935) of Bedales School
 * John Bell, Professor of Law, Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge
 * Selig Brodetsky, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 * James Challis (1803–1882), astronomer; twice observed Neptune without noting it, before its discovery
 * Jared Diamond (born 1937), US physiologist and biogeographer, Pulitzer Prize winner
 * Simon Digby (1932–2010), Oriental scholar
 * Sir Arthur Eddington (1882–1944), astronomer
 * Sir James Frazer (1854–1941), anthropologist; writer, The Golden Bough
 * Donald M. Friedman (1929–2019), scholar of Renaissance literature at University of California, Berkeley
 * Sir Francis Galton (1822–1911), scientist; meteorology, heredity
 * Thomas Gaskell (1916-1995), oceanographer and geophysicist
 * Tudor Morley Griffith (1951-2011), radiologist
 * Christopher Grigson (1926–2001), electrical engineer and naval architect
 * George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866–1923), Egyptologist; funded the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb
 * Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside (1901–1983), nuclear engineer; constructed Calder Hall, the first large scale reactor
 * Tristram Hunt (born 1974), historian and former politician
 * Henry Jackson (1839–1921), classicist and reformer, Vice Master, 1914
 * Ian Jacobs (born 1957), gynaecologist and academic
 * David Gwilym James (1905–1968), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton, 1952–1968
 * Sir Richard Jebb (1841–1905), Greek scholar
 * Lawrence Lessig (born 1961), leading US cyberlaw expert, founder of the Creative Commons movement, and free software advocate
 * Ling Wang (1917–1994), historian of science
 * George Campbell Macaulay (1852–1915), classical scholar
 * Thant Myint-U (1966-), historian
 * Sir Bernard Pares (1867–1956), historian in Russian history
 * Nicholas Patrick (born 1964), NASA astronaut
 * Richard Porson (1759–1808), classical scholar
 * Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), social anthropologist
 * Vilayanur Ramachandran (born 1947), psychologist, neuroscientist
 * John Ray (1627–1705), naturalist; created the principles of plant classification
 * Charles Rolls (1877–1910), co-founder of Rolls-Royce; aviator
 * Hugh James Rose (1795–1838), Principal of King's College London (1836–1833)
 * Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (1910–1990), zoologist, suspected Soviet sympathizer
 * J. F. Roxburgh (1888–1954), classicist, first head master of Stowe School
 * W.A.H. Rushton (1901–1980), physiologist, one time president of the Society for Psychical Research
 * Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), geologist
 * Cedric Smith (1917–2002), statistician and geneticist
 * John Maynard Smith (1920–2004), evolutionary biologist and geneticist
 * James Spedding (1808–1881), scholar; editor of Bacon's Works
 * William Fox Talbot (1800–1877), inventor of photography
 * John Arthur Todd (1908–1994), geometer
 * Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1838–1928), historian; MP; father of G. M. Trevelyan
 * William Thomas Tutte (1917–2002), Bletchley Park codebreaker and graph theorist
 * John Waterlow (1913–2010), physiologist specialising in childhood malnutrition
 * Tim Westoll (1919–1999), ornithologist
 * George Michael Wickens (1918–2006), linguist and humanities scholar
 * Francis Willughby (1635–1672), naturalist

Mathematicians

 * Sir Michael Atiyah (1929-2019), mathematician, Fields Medal and Abel Prize winner
 * Charles Babbage (1791–1871), mathematician, inventor of the automated programmable computer (transferred to Peterhouse before graduating)
 * Martin Beale (1928–1985), applied mathematician and statistician, FRS
 * Hermann Bondi (1919–2005), mathematician and cosmologist
 * Richard Borcherds (born 1959), mathematician, Fields Medallist
 * Selig Brodetsky (1888–1954), mathematician, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 * Arthur Cayley (1821–1895), mathematician; non-Euclidean geometry, invented matrices
 * Sydney Chapman (1888–1970), mathematician, geophysicist; kinetic theory, geomagnetism
 * W. R. Dean (1896–1973), mathematician and fluid dynamicist
 * Sir Timothy Gowers (born 1963), mathematician, Fields Medal winner, combinatorics, Banach space
 * G. H. Hardy (1877–1947), mathematician; A Mathematician's Apology, analytic number theory, Savilian Professor of Geometry in Oxford
 * Sir James Jeans (1877–1946), astronomer, mathematician; stellar evolution
 * John Edensor Littlewood (1885–1977), mathematician; Fourier Series, Zeta Function, Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in Cambridge
 * Edward Arthur Milne (1896–1950), mathematician
 * Henry Wilbraham (25 July 1825 – 13 February 1883) periodic function.
 * Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871), mathematician; symbolic logic
 * Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727), mathematician, physicist; MP (Cambridge University)
 * John Pell (1610–1685), mathematician
 * Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920), mathematician; analytic number theory, elliptic integrals
 * John Frankland Rigby (1933–2014), a specialist in complex analysis
 * James H. Wilkinson (1919–1986), mathematician
 * John William Strutt (1842-1919), The Lord Rayleigh, mathematician

Philosophers

 * Simon Blackburn (born 1944), philosopher
 * C. D. Broad (1887–1971), philosopher
 * Ian Hacking (1936–2023), Canadian philosopher
 * J. M. E. McTaggart (1866-1925)
 * G. E. Moore (1873–1958), philosopher
 * Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930), philosopher, mathematician, economist
 * Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), philosopher
 * Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900), philosopher, major proponent of women's colleges
 * A. N. Whitehead (1861–1947), philosopher, mathematician
 * Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher

Physicists

 * Sir George Airy (1801–1895), astronomer, geophysicist
 * Niels Bohr (1885–1962), quantum physicist
 * Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995), astrophysicist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics
 * Freeman Dyson (1923–2020), physicist, proponent of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, Templeton Prize winner
 * Thomas Eckersley (1886–1959), theoretical physicist and expert on radio waves
 * Otto Frisch (1904–1979), nuclear physicist; first used the term 'nuclear fission'
 * Louis Harold Gray (1905–1965), invented the field of radiobiology; namesake of unit of absorbed dose Gray
 * J. B. Gunn (1928–2008), physicist; inventor of the Gunn diode
 * Thomas Gold (1920–2004), astrophysicist
 * Brian Josephson (born 1940), physicist; predicted the Josephson effect
 * James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), physicist; electromagnetism
 * William George Penney (1909–1991), nuclear physicist
 * John Polkinghorne (1930–2021), physicist, religious thinker, Templeton Prize winner
 * Rajendran Raja (1948-2014), high-energy particle physicist who played a key role in the discovery of the top quark
 * Martin Ryle (1918–1984), radio astronomer; invented aperture synthesis
 * Dennis William Sciama (1926–1999), physicist; played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War
 * Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886–1975), physicist, mathematician; fluid dynamics, crystals
 * Sir George Paget Thomson (1892–1975), physicist; electron diffraction
 * Sir Peter Williams, physicist

Writers



 * Clive Bell (1881–1964), art and literary critic; husband of Vanessa
 * Charles Astor Bristed (1820–1874), American author and scholar
 * George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788–1824), poet; "She Walks in Beauty", Don Juan
 * Edward Hallet Carr (1892–1982), writer and international relations theorist
 * Erskine Childers (1870–1922), writer, Irish Nationalist; The Riddle of the Sands
 * Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), poet, dramatist – The Mistress
 * George Crabbe (1754–1832), poet; did not matriculate
 * Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), writer, poet, occultist, and 'Magician'; Magick in Theory and Practice
 * Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), playwright; The Brothers, The West Indian
 * Warwick Deeping (1877–1950), novelist
 * Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1566–1601), soldier, courtier to Elizabeth I; executed for rebellion
 * John Dryden (1631–1700), Poet Laureate; "Absalom and Achitophel"; translator of Virgil
 * Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883), poet; Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
 * Giles Fletcher (1588–1623), poet; "Christ's Victory" and "Triumph"
 * George Gascoigne (1525–1577), poet, dramatist; "Jocasta", "The Glasse of Government"
 * Edmund Gosse (1845–1928), poet, critic; On Viol and Flute
 * Thom Gunn (1929–2004), Modernist poet
 * George Herbert (1593–1633), poet
 * Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859), poet, critic
 * A. E. Housman (1859–1936), poet, classical scholar
 * Henry Hyndman (1842–1921), English writer and politician
 * Muhammad Iqbal (1875–1938), Islamic poet and philosopher
 * Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1861–1938), poet, historian and senior civil servant
 * Nathaniel Lee (1649–1692), dramatist; The Rival Queens
 * John Lehmann (1907–1987), poet, man of letters; inaugurated The London Magazine
 * Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873), novelist; The Last Days of Pompeii; politician
 * Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), poet; "Horatian Ode", "The Rehearsal Transpros'd"; MP (Hull)
 * Frederick Maurice (1805–1872), theologian, writer, Christian Socialist
 * A. A. Milne (1882–1956), writer; Winnie-the-Pooh
 * Nicholas Monsarrat (1910–1979), novelist; The Cruel Sea, Three Corvettes
 * Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian and English novelist; Lolita
 * Lenrie Peters (1932–2009), Gambian novelist, poet and educationist
 * Thomas Randolph (1605–1635), poet, dramatist
 * T. J. Cobden Sanderson (1840–1922), bookbinder; Arts and Crafts Movement pioneer
 * Sir Henry Spelman (1562–1641), antiquary; Reliquiae Spelmannianae
 * Lytton Strachey (1880–1932), biographer; Eminent Victorians; Bloomsbury Group
 * Sir John Suckling (1609–1642), poet, dramatist
 * Tom Taylor (1817–1880), Scottish dramatist; editor of Punch
 * Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809–1892), poet – "Maud", "In Memoriam"
 * William M. Thackeray (1811–1863), novelist; Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond (dropped out after second year)
 * Sir George Trevelyan, 4th Baronet (1906–1996), educator, new age thinker and writer
 * George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628–1687), wit, politician, dramatist; The Rehearsal; member of the 'Cabal'
 * Raymond Williams (1921–1988), Marxist critic, novelist; The Country and the City
 * Leonard Woolf (1880–1969), writer; husband of Virginia Woolf; Bloomsbury Group
 * Geoffrey Winthrop Young (1876–1958), mountaineer and author

Sports

 * George 'Gubby' Allen (1902–1989), cricketer – captained England; played in Bodyline series
 * Sir George Branson (1871–1951), Cambridge rowing blue and High Court judge
 * Wing Commander Alan Cassidy MBE, born 1949. Trinity, 1967. National Aerobatic Champion, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003.
 * Harry Chester Goodhart (1858–1895), twice FA Cup winner and England international footballer; Professor of Humanities at Edinburgh University
 * Geoffrey Hopley, cricketer
 * Dar Lyon (1898–1964), first class cricketer; Chief Justice of the Seychelles
 * Philip Morton (1857–1925), cricketer and schoolmaster
 * Sir Peter Scott (1909–1989), artist, ornithologist; Olympic sailor (1936)
 * Rev. Henry Holmes Stewart (1847–1937), FA Cup winner in 1873
 * Charles Plumpton Wilson (1859–1938), England footballer and Rugby player
 * H. de Winton, created the first formal set of rules for Association football (The Cambridge Rules)
 * Maxwell Woosnam (1892–1965), Olympic and Wimbledon lawn tennis champion and England national football team captain
 * Andy Whittall, Zimbabwe cricketer

Spies

 * Anthony Blunt (1907–1983), Soviet spy; art historian
 * Guy Burgess (1910–1963), Soviet spy and traitor
 * John Cairncross (1913-1995), double agent; communist
 * Nicholas Elliott (1916-1994), British spy
 * Michael Greenberg (1914–1992), Foreign Affairs Economist U.S. Foreign Economic Administration; Soviet spy
 * Kim Philby (1911–1988), double agent; communist
 * Michael Whitney Straight (1916–2004), US magazine publisher, presidential speechwriter, Soviet spy

Business

 * Norman Blackwell, Baron Blackwell, (born 1952), businessman and politician
 * Sir Andrew Thomas Cahn (born 1951), Vice Chairman for Public Policy of Nomura Group; former CEO of UK Trade & Investment
 * Alfred Clayton Cole (1854–1920), Governor of the Bank of England
 * Sanjeev Gupta (born 1971), businessman
 * Sir Robin Ibbs (1926–2014), banker
 * David Layton (1914–2009), National Coal Board economist and industrial relations advisor
 * Francis Martineau Lupton (1848-1921), businessman, landowner, politician  and great-great-grandfather  of  Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
 * Sir Michael Adrian Richards (born 1951), former UK National Cancer Director; Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Care Quality Commission, from May 2013
 * Rod Smallwood (born 1950), co-manager of Iron Maiden and co-founder of Sanctuary Records
 * Andy Taylor (born 1951), co-manager of Iron Maiden and co-founder of Sanctuary Records
 * John Tusa (born 1936), managing director of BBC World Service
 * Neville Wadia (1911–1996), Bombay industrialist and philanthropist
 * Simon Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise (born 1967), CEO of Next plc

Military

 * Brigadier-General Charles Strathavon Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby (1870–1949), soldier
 * James Yorke Scarlett (1799–1871), British general and hero of the Crimean War
 * David Stirling (1915–1990), founder of the Special Air Service

Others

 * Christopher Alexander (1936–2022), architect, author of The Timeless Way of Building and father of the design patterns movement
 * Edward Chancellor, investment strategist and financial historian
 * Hubert Chesshyre, retired British officer of arms found to have committed child sexual abuse
 * Terry Eagleton (born 1943), literary critic
 * Nathaniel Eaton (1609–1674), first schoolmaster at Harvard
 * James Clerk Maxwell Garnett CBE (1880–1958), educationist, barrister, and peace campaigner
 * Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh (1878–1962), Indian Civil Service officer
 * Antony Gormley (born 1950), sculptor, best known for Angel of the North 1968–71
 * Stephen Greenhalgh (born 1967), Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime in London
 * Michael Gurstein (1944–2017), Canadian community informatician
 * Peter Llewellyn Gwynn-Jones (1940–2010), Garter Principal King of Arms, 1995–2010
 * Sir Stuart Milner-Barry (1906–1995), chess player, World War II codebreaker and civil servant
 * William Smith O'Brien (1803–1864), Irish Nationalist
 * Baron Kishichiro Okura (1882–1963), Japanese playboy and motor racing enthusiast
 * St. John Philby (1885–1960), explorer of Arabia; father of Kim
 * Alexander Ramsay of Mar (1919–2001), great-grandson of Queen Victoria
 * Sir Benegal Narsing Rau (1887–1952), Indian Civil Service officer
 * Robert Vane Russell (1873-1915), Indian Civil Service officer and writer
 * Anthony and Peter Shaffer (born 1926; Anthony died 2001, Peter died 2016), dramatists
 * John Sowerby (1823-1902), botanist, writer and early member of the Alpine Club
 * Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924), composer, organist
 * Thomas Francis Wade (1818–1895), diplomat; developed a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese that formed the basis for the Wade–Giles system
 * Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), composer; Sea Symphony, Pilgrim's Progress