List of alumni of St John's College, Cambridge

Portrait of Lady Margaret Beaufort, foundress

The following is a list of notable people educated at St John's College, Cambridge. When available, years of attendance are provided as indicated in the College Register or in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Over 1000 former members of St John's College appear in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.^[1]

Politics, Military, and the Civil Service

The Viscount Goderich

Lord Palmerston

Manmohan Singh

John Cheke, Secretary of State, 1553
Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I and advisor to Edward VI and Mary I
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Lord High Treasurer, 1572–98, and chief advisor to Elizabeth I
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, Lord High Treasurer, 1599–1608
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Lord High Treasurer, 1608–12, Secretary of State, 1590-12
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, Lord High Treasurer, 1614–18
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, leading advisor to Charles I, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1633–41
Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, Secretary of State, 1642–43
Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, Lord High Treasurer, 1660–67
John Duncombe, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1672–76
Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal, 1672–84
Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper, 1682–85
Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, Secretary of State 1699–1700 (South)
James Vernon, Secretary of State 1697–1700 (North) and 1700-2 (South)
John Aislabie, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1718–21
Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath, Secretary of State, 1768–70 & 1775–79 (South), 1768 & 1779 (North)
Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, Speaker of the House of Commons, 1770–80
Thomas Clarkson, abolitionist and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire
Charles Philip Yorke, Home Secretary, 1803–04, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1810–12
Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1804-5
Richard Ryder, Home Secretary, 1809–12
William Wilberforce, Member of Parliament and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1812–22
Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1829–30, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1840–47
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto, Lord Privy Seal, 1846–52, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835–1841
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1841–44
Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Privy Seal, 1842–46
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1853–58, 1865–66, 1868–70
Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet, Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1855
Suematsu Kenchō, Japanese Minister of Home Affairs, 1900–01
Sir James Allen, Finance Minister of New Zealand, 1912–15
Yoshirō Fujimura, Japanese Minister of Communications, 1924, Director of Mitsui & Co.
Nawab Mohammad Ismail Khan, President of the All-India Muslim League, 1930–47
Sir Percy James Grigg, Secretary of State for War, 1942–45
Sir Henry Lee Hau Shik, first Finance Minister of Malaysia, 1957–59
Akhter Husain, Governor of West Pakistan, 1957–60
Sir Percy Cradock, British Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, 1978–83
Sir Bryan Cartledge, British Ambassador to the USSR, 1985–88
Sir Robin McLaren, British Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, 1991–94
Fra' Matthew Festing, Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, 2008–

Prime Ministers

Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (briefly admitted), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1765–66 & 1782^[2]
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1827–28
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1852–55
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1855–58 & 1859–65
Alfred Domett, Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1862–63
Sir Francis Bell, Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1925
Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, 2004–2014

Military and Colonial Administrators

Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, parliamentary general and commander-in-chief in the English Civil War
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, general and major supporter of Charles I in the English Civil War
Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, Admiral of the Fleet, Lord High Admiral, 1638–43
Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford, Admiral of the Fleet, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1694–99, 1709–10, and 1714–17
George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, Field Marshal, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1767–72
Richard Penn, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, 1771–73
Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland, Lieutenant-General during the American Revolutionary War
John Cradock, 1st Baron Howden, General, Governor of the Cape Colony, 1811–14
Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, Governor-General of India, 1842–44
Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland, Admiral, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1852
Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn, Field Marshal
Sir Denzil Ibbetson, Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, 1907–08
Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael, Governor of Victoria, 1908–11
Sir Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux, Governor of Saint Helena, 1912–20, and Governor of Uganda, 1910–11
Sir James Peiris, first native Governor of Ceylon (Acting), 1929
Sir Thomas Snow, Lieutenant-General during WWI
Sir Fraser Russell, Governor of Southern Rhodesia, 1934–35, 1942, and 1946
Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, Governor of Cyprus, 1957–60, and Governor of Jamaica, 1951–57
Sir Roger Palin, Air Chief Marshal
Sir Andrew Ridgway, Lieutenant-General, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey, 2006–11

Current Members of Parliament

Nigel Dodds, Deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party
Ben Gummer
Robert Jenrick
Richard Burgon

Current Members of the House of Lords

Justice

Nagendra Singh

Edmund Anderson, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1583–1605
Robert Heath, Lord Chief Justice of England, 1642–45
Humphrey Winch, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, 1608–11
Robert Booth, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, 1679–80
Sir Codrington Edmund Carrington, 1st Chief Justice of Ceylon, 1801–06
Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman, Lord Chief Justice of England, 1832–50
William Martin, Chief Justice of New Zealand, 1841–57
Edward Marshall Hall, Victorian era barrister known as "The Great Defender"
Wee Chong Jin, Chief Justice of Singapore, 1963–90
Ahmad Mohamed Ibrahim, Attorney-General of Singapore, 1965–67
Maharaj Nagendra Singh, President of the International Court of Justice, 1985–88
Walter Woon, Attorney-General of Singapore, 2008–10
Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee, (1899–1981), advocate in Bombay High Court, 1st Indian ambassador to Egypt, Vice-Chancellor of University of Jammu and Kashmir
Glanville Williams, Q.C. LL.D. F.B.A. described in 1997 by the New York Times as the greatest lawyer of the 20th century
Stanley Berwin, one of the leading lawyers of the second half of the 20th century

Science, mathematics, and technology

Chris Abel, Professor of Biological Chemistry at Cambridge
John Couch Adams, mathematician and discoverer of Neptune
Bernard Armitage, fellow of the College and psychiatrist
George Barnard, statistician known for his work on the foundations of statistics
Sir David Cox, prominent statistician
Steve Furber, computer scientist
Sir Samuel Curran, physicist, inventor of the scintillation counter and proportional counter, and founder of Strathclyde University
John Dee, mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I
Richard A. Proctor, astronomer
Fearon Fallows, astronomer
Thomas Fink, physicist and author
William Gilbert, physician and natural philosopher, discoverer of the Earth's magnetic field and inventor of the word 'electricity'
Johannes de Villiers Graaff, economist
William Gregor, discoverer of titanium
William D. Hamilton, evolutionary biologist who formalised the concept of kin selection
David Harvey, Marxist geographer, social scientist
William Heberden, British physician, gave the first clinical description (1768) of angina pectoris and demonstrated that chicken pox was different from smallpox
John Herschel, prominent mathematician and astronomer who coined the word "photography"
W. E. Hick, pioneer of cognitive science and discoverer of Hick's law
Robert Hinde, Professor of Zoology, and former Master of St. John's
Sir Fred Hoyle, pioneering but controversial cosmologist who first used the term 'Big Bang'
James Jago, scientist and physician
Sir Harold Jeffreys, applied mathematician and geophysicist
Joseph Larmor, mathematician and physicist
Louis Leakey, archaeologist and naturalist credited with the discovery of Homo habilis
John Marrack, immunologist
Alfred Marshall, economist
Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine
Sir Roger Penrose, mathematical physicist and philosopher
Cedric Price, architect
Rudolf Peierls, physicist
Eric Denton, marine biologist
Vikram Sarabhai, father of the Indian space programme
David Stoddart OBE, biogeographer
Louis J. Mordell, mathematician
James Joseph Sylvester, mathematician
Brook Taylor, mathematician
Henry Briggs, mathematician
Sir Maurice Wilkes, one of the founding fathers of modern computer science, and inventor of the first stored program digital computer
John Tuzo Wilson, geophysicist and geologist who achieved worldwide acclaim for his contributions to the theory of plate tectonics

Nobel Prize winners

Sir Edward Appleton, winner of the Nobel prize for Physics, for discovering the Appleton layer
Sir John Cockcroft KCB, Nobel prize-winning physicist who first split the atom
Allan Cormack, Nobel laureate in Medicine or Physiology for the invention of the CAT scan
Paul Dirac, Nobel laureate in Physics and one of the founders of Quantum Mechanics
Sir Nevill Francis Mott, awarded Nobel prize for Physics for work on the behaviour of electrons in magnetic solids
Abdus Salam, Nobel laureate in Physics, for unifying the electromagnetic force and the weak force
Frederick Sanger, molecular biologist and one of only four double Nobel Prize winners
Maurice Wilkins, awarded Nobel prize for Medicine or Physiology with Watson and Crick for discovering the structure of DNA

John Dee
William Gilbert
Brook Taylor
John Couch Adams
Frederick Sanger, the fourth person to win two Nobel Prizes

Royal Medal Winners

Three Royal Medals, known also as the Queen's Medals, are awarded annually by the Sovereign upon the recommendation of the Council of the Royal Society, “two for the most important contributions to the advancement of Natural Knowledge (one in the physical and one in the biological sciences) and the other for distinguished contributions in the applied sciences”. The first Royal Medal was awarded in 1826 and previous recipients include thirty-eight Johnians.

Name	Year	Rationale^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]
John Herschel	1836	For his paper on nebulae and clusters of stars, published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1833
James Sylvester	1861	For his various memoirs and researches in mathematical science
John Newport Langley	1892	For his work on secreting glands, and on the nervous system
Charles Pritchard	1892	For his work on photometry and stellar parallax
Arthur Schuster	1893	For his spectroscopic inquiries, and his researches on disruptive discharge through gases and on terrestrial magnetism
Percy MacMahon	1900	For the number and range of his contributions to mathematical science
William Burnside	1904	For his researches in mathematics, particularly in the theory of groups
Augustus Love	1909	On the ground of his researches in the theory of elasticity and cognate subjects
William Mitchinson Hicks	1912	On the ground of his researches in mathematical physics
Grafton Elliot Smith	1912	No citation.
William Johnson Sollas	1914	For researches in palaeontology
Joseph Larmor	1915	On the ground of his numerous and important contributions to mathematical and physical science
William Rivers	1915	On the ground of his important contributions to ethnography and ethnology
William Bateson	1920	On the ground of his contributions to biological science, and especially his studies in genetics
Frederick Blackman	1921	For his researches on the gaseous exchange in plants & on the operation of limiting factors
Albert Seward	1925	For his researches on the palaeobotany of Gondwanaland
John Edward Marr	1930	For his pioneer work in the accurate zoning of the palaeozoic rocks
Patrick Laidlaw	1933	For his work on diseases due to viruses, including that on the cause and prevention of distemper in dogs.
Alfred Harker	1935	In recognition of his distinguished work and influence as a petrologist
Paul Dirac	1939	For the leading part he had taken in the development of the new quantum mechanics
William Topley	1942	For his outstanding work on experimental epidemiology and immunology
Harold Jeffreys	1948	For his distinguished work in geophysics and his important contributions to the astronomy of the solar system
Edward Appleton	1950	For his work on the ele [sic] transmission of electromagnetic waves round the earth and for his investigations of the ionic state of the upper atmosphere
Frederic Bartlett	1952	In recognition of his creation of an experimental school of psychology which has established under his leadership an outstanding position recognised internationally as without superior
Nevill Mott	1953	In recognition of his eminent work in the field of quantum theory and particularly in the theory of metals
John Cockcroft	1954	In recognition of his distinguished work on nuclear and atomic physics
W. V. D. Hodge	1957	In recognition of his distinguished work on algebraic geometry
Rudolf Peierls	1959	In recognition of his distinguished work on the theoretical foundations of high energy and nuclear physics
Raymond Lyttleton	1965	In recognition of his distinguished contributions to astronomy, particularly for his work on the dynamical stability of galaxies
Frank Yates	1966	In recognition of his profound and far-reaching contributions to the statistical methods of experimental biology
Joseph Hutchinson	1967	In recognition of his distinguished work on the genetics and evolution of crop-plants with particular reference to cotton
Charles Oatley	1969	In recognition of his distinguished work in the wartime development of radar and latterly for the design and development of a highly successful scanning electron microscope
Frederick Sanger	1969	In recognition of his pioneer work on the sequence of amino acids in proteins and of nucleotides of ribonucleic acids
Fred Hoyle	1974	In recognition of his distinguished contributions to theoretical physics and cosmology
Abdus Salam	1978	In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the physics of elementary particles with special reference to the unification of the electromagnetic and weak interactions
Roger Penrose	1985	For his fundamental contributions to the theory of gravitational collapse and to other geometric aspects of theoretical physics
Eric Denton	1987	In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the physiology of marine animals, to marine biology generally, and his leadership of UK marine science
Robert Hinde	1996	In recognition of his contributions to the field of animal behaviour and the dominant influence it achieved on the emerging field of ethology
Christopher Dobson	2009	For his outstanding contributions to the understanding of the mechanisms of protein folding and mis-folding, and the implications for disease

Arts and literature

William Wordsworth

Cecil Beaton

Douglas Adams

Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, patron of William Shakespeare
Douglas Adams, author
John Gardner, author
John Andrews, crime and antiques writer
Sir Cecil Beaton, renowned photographer, Academy Award winner, and one of the Bright Young Things
Patrick Brontë, father of the Brontë sisters
Samuel Butler, author
Louis Cha, Chinese novelist and newspaper editor
Jennifer Egan, author, winner of 2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Colin Gardner, film and media studies theorist, professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert Greene, arguably the first professional English author of plays, poems and novels
Thomas Nashe, pamphleteer, satirist and playwright
Frederic Raphael, screenwriter, novelist and journalist
Tom Rob Smith, award nominee author of Soviet-era novels; erstwhile writer for Channel 5's defunct soap opera Family Affairs
Paul Sussman, author, archaeologist and journalist
Andrew Gilligan, controversial journalist
Frederic Raphael, received Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, 1965
Robert Stevenson, nominated for Academy Award for Best Director, 1964
Sir Hugh Casson, president of the Royal Academy of Arts, 1974–84

Poets

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, courtier and poet, subject of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship
Thomas Wyatt, courtier and poet
John Hall, poet
Edward Benlowes, poet
William Mason, poet
Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet, poet
Erasmus Darwin, poet and abolitionist
Robert Herrick, author of renowned poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
William Wordsworth, major English Romantic poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, 1843–50
William Barnes, poet
T. E. Hulme, poet
Richard Eberhart, poet, winner of 1966 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, United States Poet Laureate, 1969-61

Musicians

William Sterndale Bennett, 19th-century composer
Andrew Carwood, Director of Music St Paul's Cathedral (2007), tenor and conductor
Andrew Gant, chorister and composer
George Guest, Welsh choral conductor, college organist 1951–91
Herbert Howells, English composer, college organist
Geoffrey Paterson, conductor, college organist
John Scott, LVO, English organist, organ scholar 1974–78, organist of St Paul's 1990–2004
Harry Gregson-Williams, film score composer and Golden Globe nominee
Rupert Gregson-Williams, film score composer and recipient of the European Film composer award

Religion

Saint Philip Howard

John Williams

Titus Oates, chaplain who fabricated the "Popish Plot"
Thomas Gilbank Ackland, clergyman and domestic chaplain to the Duke of York
Haslefoot Bridges, Puritan minister
William Cassels, missionary and member of the Cambridge Seven
D'Ewes Coke, clergyman and colliery master
Edmund Hickeringill, churchman
William Higton, clergyman and philanthropist
William Jowett, missionary
Henry Martyn, missionary to India and Persia
William Morgan, Bishop of Llandaff and Bishop of St Asaph and Welsh Bible translator
Edmund Prys, Welsh Bible translator and clergyman
Edward Stillingfleet, British theologian and scholar
John Thomlinson, clergyman and diarist
Richard Vaughan, Bishop of Bangor 1595–97, Bishop of Chester 1597–1604, Bishop of London 1604–07
John Colenso, Bishop of Natal, 1853–83
Thomas Cooper Makinson, Missionary, seceded to the Church of Rome, 1809–1893

Roman Catholic cardinals, saints and martyrs

Saint Richard Gwyn, martyr
Saint Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, martyr
Saint John Fisher (Fellow and Founder), martyr and cardinal
Philip Howard, cardinal
William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford, martyr

Anglican archbishops

Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, 1577–88
John Williams, Archbishop of York, 1641–50, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, 1621–25
Richard Neile, Archbishop of York, 1631–40
Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1974–1980
Richard Boyle, Archbishop of Tuam, 1638–45
John Cradock, Archbishop of Dublin, 1772–78
William Stuart, Archbishop of Armagh, 1800–22
George Selwyn, Primate and 1st bishop of New Zealand, 1841–67
Lowther Clarke, Archbishop of Melbourne, 1905–20
Harrington Lees, Archbishop of Melbourne, 1921–29
Gerald Sharp, Archbishop of Brisbane, 1921–33
Peter Carnley, Primate of Australia 2000–05, Archbishop of Perth 1981–2005

Academics

Frank Horton, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London 1939–45
Andrew D. Hamilton, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 2009–15, President of New York University, 2016–
William Richard Hamilton, President of the Royal Geographical Society
Sir James Wordie, President of the Royal Geographical Society
Sir Vivian Fuchs, President of the Royal Geographical Society
Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston, 1st Baronet, President of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1918–20
Owen Chadwick, church historian, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 1969–71
Richard Cockburn Maclaurin, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1909–20
Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell University, 1921–37
Kikuchi Dairoku, Japanese Minister of Education, 1901-3, President of Tokyo University, 1898-01, and Kyoto University, 1908–12
Sir Thomas Watson, 1st Baronet, President of the Royal College of Physicians, 1862–66
Max Rosenheim, President of the Royal College of Physicians, 1966–71
Charles Sydney Gibbes, English tutor of Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia
Peter Hennessy, English historian of government
Sir Harry Hinsley, historian and World War II codebreaker
Edward Latymer, founder of Latymer Upper School and The Latymer School
Sir Donald MacAlister, physician and chancellor of the University of Glasgow
Tshilidzi Marwala, academic and businessman
Sir Peter Noble, Principal of King's College London 1952–1968
E. J. Rapson, numismatist and professor of Sanskrit (1906–36) at the University of Cambridge
John Stevens Henslow English clergyman, botanist and geologist
Thomas Sutton, founder of Charterhouse School and one of 16th-century England's wealthiest individuals
Stephen Sykes, theologian, former Dean of St John's and Bishop of Ely, and principal of St John's College, Durham
Frank Thistlethwaite, Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia (1961–1980)
Gregory Bateson, anthropologist
David Denison, professor of linguistics

Sports and entertainment

Sir John Clements, actor and theatrical producer
Sir Derek Jacobi, actor
Christopher Born, actor
Jamie Bamber, actor
Hugh Dennis, actor, comedian
Paul Dempsey, TV presenter
Jonathan Miller, physician, theatre and opera director, television presenter
Sid Waddell, darts commentator
Rob Andrew, England rugby footballer
Chris Brasher, Olympic gold medallist runner, founder of the London Marathon
Mike Brearley, cricketer, England Captain
Logie Bruce Lockhart, Scotland rugby footballer

Miscellaneous

Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (Honorary Degree)
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, 1998–2001
John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley, CEO of BP, 1995–2007
Damon Buffini, former head of private equity firm Permira
Mark Coombs, billionaire and CEO of Ashmore Group^[8]
Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, ninth richest man in the world upon his death in 2006
Dame Louise Makin, CEO of BTG plc, 2004–present
Sir Harpal Kumar, CEO of Cancer Research UK
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (Affiliated)

References

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