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List of alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge

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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.

Politicians

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Sir Francis Bacon lawyer, philosopher; Lord Chancellor
Enoch Powell, Conservative British politician
Lee Hsien-Loong, Third Prime Minister of Singapore
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India
Vicky Ford, serving Conservative British politician

Prime Ministers

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United Kingdom

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International

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Royalty

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King Edward VII
King George VI
King Charles III

Clergy

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Law and justice

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Media and journalists

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Alexander Armstrong actor, television presenter and comedian

Academics and scientists

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Sir Isaac Newton, one of the most influential scientists of all time
James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist

Mathematicians

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Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician

Philosophers

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Bertrand Russell, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic

Physicists

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Writers

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Lord Tennyson, poet
Lord Byron, poet
Muhammad Iqbal, Islamic poet and philosopher
A. A. Milne, writer, author of Winnie the Pooh children's novels

Sports

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Spies

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Kim Philby, Soviet spy

Business

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Francis Martineau Lupton, Businessman, landowner and politician

Military

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Others

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References

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  1. ^ "Buxton, Arthur", in Crockford's Clerical Directory (1930), p. 190
  2. ^ John Frankland Rigby (obituary) at cardiff.ac.uk, accessed 2 May 2019
  3. ^ Kates, Joan Giangrasse (February 27, 2014). "Rajendran Raja 1948-2014: Former Fermilab physicist helped discover top quark, Higgs boson". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois: Tribune Company. Retrieved June 4, 2014
  4. ^ J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part II, vol. I (1940), p. 365
  5. ^ "Harry Chester Goodhart". Picture of the Month. Trinity College. 1 June 2003. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
  6. ^ 'Mr. P. H. Morton' (obituary) in The Times, issue 43964 dated 18 May 1925, p. 21
  7. ^ Philip Howard Morton at CricketArchive, accessed 9 September 2013
  8. ^ Warsop, Keith (2004). The Early FA Cup Finals and the Southern Amateurs. SoccerData. pp. 126–127. ISBN 1-899468-78-1.
  9. ^ Elliot, Chris (24 January 2018). "Revealed: How Meghan Markle's ancestry was shaped by Cambridge". Cambridge News. Retrieved 4 March 2018. Olive (Middleton's) father was landowner Francis Martineau Lupton...
  10. ^ Walker, T. (4 June 2014). "Kate's Family Tree". UK Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 July 2019. Kate's great-great- grandfather was Francis Martineau Lupton, a politician himself, and his first cousin was the Birmingham lord mayor Sir Thomas Martineau, a friend of Queen Victoria. Sir Thomas's nephew was Neville Chamberlain.
  11. ^ Jamie Doward (30 March 2019). "Honours system under scrutiny after sex abuser kept title for years". The Observer. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  12. ^ Salman, Saba. "Stephen Greenhalgh: localism hero or demolition man?". The Guardian. 7 February 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2014.