University of Cambridge — Alumni

All politician writer association football player actor film actor television actor university teacher screenwriter film director stage actor poet composer journalist film producer military personnel painter philosopher voice actor novelist diplomat
Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

1642 – 1727 · Age 84
Deceased
Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

1942 – 2018 · Age 76
Deceased
Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

1872 – 1970 · Age 97
Deceased
Niels Bohr

Niels Bohr

1885 – 1962 · Age 77
Deceased
Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford

1871 – 1937 · Age 66
Deceased
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein

1889 – 1951 · Age 62
Deceased
James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell

1831 – 1879 · Age 48
Deceased
Erasmus

Erasmus

1466 – 1536 · Age 69
Deceased
Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

1899 – 1977 · Age 78
Deceased
Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman

1912 – 2006 · Age 94
Deceased
Robert Oppenheimer

Robert Oppenheimer

1904 – 1967 · Age 62
Deceased
Karl Popper

Karl Popper

1902 – 1994 · Age 92
Deceased
J. J. Thomson

J. J. Thomson

1856 – 1940 · Age 83
Deceased
Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall

1934 – 2025 · Age 91
Deceased
Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin

1920 – 1958 · Age 37
Deceased
Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen

1933 · Age 92
Alive
James Chadwick

James Chadwick

1891 – 1974 · Age 82
Deceased
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

1824 – 1907 · Age 83
Deceased
Francis Crick

Francis Crick

1916 – 2004 · Age 88
Deceased
John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

1842 – 1919 · Age 76
Deceased
Hans Bethe

Hans Bethe

1906 – 2005 · Age 98
Deceased
William Lawrence Bragg

William Lawrence Bragg

1890 – 1971 · Age 81
Deceased
Roger Penrose

Roger Penrose

1931 · Age 94
Alive
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

1910 – 1995 · Age 84
Deceased
Ghil'ad Zuckermann

Ghil'ad Zuckermann

1971 · Age 54
Alive