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==Notable people== {{Further|List of honorary fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge}} ===Proctors of God's House=== * 1439β1451 [[William Byngham]] * 1451β1458 [[John Hurt (God's House)|John Hurt]] * 1458β1464 [[William Fallan]] * 1464β1477 [[William Basset (God's House)|William Basset]] * 1477β1490 [[Ralph Barton (God's House)|Ralph Barton]] * 1490β1505 [[John Sickling]] ===Masters of Christ's=== {{main|List of Masters of Christ's College, Cambridge}} ===Notable alumni=== {{main|List of alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge}} {{See also|Category:Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge}} <!--Please consider adding alumni to the CATEGORY, as this list is becoming v long. Simply paste the category, without the first colon, at the bottom of the alumnus' article.--> <gallery class="center" perrow="7"> File:John Milton Christ's College.jpg|[[John Milton]] File:John Finch Peter Lely Christs College.jpg|[[John Finch (ambassador)|Sir John Finch]] File:Thomas Baines by Isaac Fuller Christs College.jpg|[[Thomas Baines (physician)|Sir Thomas Baines]] File:John Tayloe III (Stuart).png|[[John Tayloe III]] File:AbpFrederickCornwallis.jpg|[[Frederick Cornwallis]] File:Beilby porteus engraving.jpg|[[Beilby Porteus]] File:William Paley Christ's College.jpg|[[William Paley]] File:Charles Darwin painting by Walter William Ouless, 1875.jpg|[[Charles Darwin]] File:J.C.Bose.JPG|[[Jagdish Chandra Bose]] File:Jan Smuts 1947.jpg|[[Jan Smuts]] File:Lord Mountbatten 4 Allan Warren.jpg|[[Lord Mountbatten]] File:JROppenheimer-LosAlamos.jpg|[[J. Robert Oppenheimer]] File:Alexander Todd Nobel.jpg|[[Alexander R. Todd|Alexander, Lord Todd]] File:Martin Evans Nobel Prize.jpg|[[Martin Evans|Sir Martin Evans]] File:Simonschrama.JPG|[[Simon Schama|Sir Simon Schama]] File:Rowan Williams 2007.jpg|[[Rowan Williams]] File:Jasmine Birtles.jpg|[[Jasmine Birtles]] File:Sacha Baron Cohen, 2011.jpg|[[Sacha Baron Cohen]] File:John Oliver November 2016.jpg|[[John Oliver]] </gallery> {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 90%;" |- style="background:#f7f7f7;" !Name !Birth !Death !Career |- |[[Prince Ra'ad bin Zeid]] Al-Hussein |1936 | |Jordanian Prince |- |[[Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad|Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein]] |1964 | |[[High Commissioner for Human Rights|UN High Commissioner for Human Rights]] |- |[[William Ames]] |1576 |1633 |Reformed Theologian |- |[[Thomas Baines (physician)|Thomas Baines]] |1622 |1680 |Physician, original Fellow of Royal Society |- |[[Richard Bancroft]] |1544 |1610 |Archbishop of Canterbury, Organiser of James I Bible |- |{{sortname|Sacha|Baron Cohen}} |1971 | |Comedian |- |[[Jasmine Birtles]] |1962 | |British financial and business commentator, television presenter, author and journalist |- |[[Jagdish Chandra Bose]] |1858 |1937 | Indian physicist |- |[[C. Delisle Burns]] |1879 |1942 |Atheist and secularist writer and lecturer |- |[[Brian Cantor]] |1948 | |Vice-Chancellor of the [[University of Bradford]] and previously of the [[University of York]] |- |[[Sir Anthony Caro]] |1924 |2013 |Sculptor |- |[[Randolph Carter]] |1874 |1932 |Explorer |- |[[John Cook (musician)|John Cook]] |1918 |1984 |Prolific Anglo-American composer and organist |- |[[Miles Corbet]] |1594/5 |1662 |Regicide |- |[[Frederick Cornwallis]] |1713 |1783 |[[Archbishop of Canterbury]] |- |[[John Cornwell (writer)|John Cornwell]] |1940 | |British author and journalist |- |[[John James Cowperthwaite]] |1916 |2006 |Credited with policies allowing Hong Kong's economic boom in the 1960s |- |[[John Cridland]] |1961 | |Director-General of the [[Confederation of British Industry]] |- |[[Charles Darwin]] |1809 |1882 |British [[natural history|naturalist]] |- |[[Patrick Devlin (judge)|Patrick Arthur Devlin, Baron Devlin]] |1905 |1992 |Jurist, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary |- |[[Colin Dexter]] |1930 |2017 |Novelist |- |[[Jill Duff]] |1972 | |[[Anglican Bishop of Lancaster|Bishop of Lancaster]] |- |[[George Dwyer]] |1908 |1987 |Archbishop of Birmingham; Council Father of the Second Vatican Council |- |[[James Chuter Ede]] |1882 |1965 |[[Home Secretary]] and [[Leader of the House of Commons]] |- |[[Martin Evans|Sir Martin Evans]] |1941 | |[[Biochemist]], [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate in medicine]] |- |[[Dee Ferris]] |1973 | |British Painter |- |[[John Finch (ambassador)|John Finch]] |1626 |1682 |Ambassador, original Fellow of Royal Society |- |[[Noel Gay]] |1898 |1954 |Composer |- |[[Nina Gold]] |1964 | |BAFTA-winning casting director |- |[[Edmund Grindal]] |1519 |1583 |[[Archbishop of Canterbury]] |- |[[Alfred Cort Haddon]] |1855 |1940 |Father of modern anthropology |- |[[Duncan Haldane]] |1951 | |Physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel laureate in physics]] |- |[[Yusuf Hamied]] |1936 | |Chemist and industrialist |- |[[Natalie Haynes]] |1974 | |Writer and broadcaster and a former comedian. |- |[[John Healey (politician)|John Healey]] |1960 | |British politician |- |[[Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg]] |1940 | ||Lord Chancellor |- |[[Phillip King (artist)|Phillip King]] |1934 |2021 |Sculptor |- |[[David Knowles (scholar)|David Knowles]] |1896 |1974 |Historian |- |[[David Konstant]] |1930 | |[[Roman Catholic Bishop of Leeds]] |- |[[John Kotelawala]] |1897 |1980 |[[Prime Minister of Ceylon]] (Sri Lanka) |- |[[John Leland (antiquary)|John Leland]] |c 1506 |1552 |Father of English history |- |[[Tony Lewis]] |1938 | |England and Glamorgan cricket captain; writer and broadcaster |- |[[Michael Liebreich]] |1963 | |Clean energy expert, founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance |- |[[Richard Luce, Baron Luce|Richard Luce]] |1936 | |Lord Chamberlain |- |[[Michael Lynch (entrepreneur)|Michael Lynch]] |1965 | |Founder of [[Autonomy Systems]] |- |[[Edward Petronell Manby]] |1864 |1929 |Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health |- |[[Allama Mashriqi]] |1883 |1963 |Founder of the [[Khaksars|Khaksar Tehreek]] |- |[[Peter Mathieson (professor)|Sir Peter Mathieson]] |1959 | |Vice-Chancellor of the [[University of Edinburgh]] |- |[[David Mellor]] |1949 | |British politician |- |[[Sir Walter Mildmay]] | |1589 |Founder of [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]] |- |[[Miles Millar]] |c 1967 | |Hollywood screenwriter and producer |- |[[John Milton]] |1608 |1674 |English poet |- |[[Helen Mort]] |1985 | |Poet |- |[[Lord Mountbatten|Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma]] |1900 |1979 |[[Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy)|Admiral (RN)]] and statesman |- |[[Thomas Nelson, Jr.]] |1738 |1789 |Governor of Virginia; signer of the American Declaration of Independence |- |[[Davidson Nicol]] |1924 |1994 |Sierra Leonean academic, diplomat, physician, and writer |- |[[John Oliver]] |1977 | |British political comedian |- |[[J. Robert Oppenheimer]] |1904 |1967 |American theoretical physicist and 'father of the atomic bomb' |- |[[Andy Parsons]] |1967 | |English comedian and writer |- |[[William Paley]] |1743 |1805 |English theologian and philosopher |- |[[Steve Palmer (footballer)|Steve Palmer]] |1968 | |Professional football player |- |[[John Peile]] |1838 |1910 |Philologist |- |[[William Perkins (Puritan)|William Perkins]] |1558 |1602 |Leading [[Puritan]] Theologian of the Elizabethan Era |- |[[Sir John Plumb]] |1911 |2001 |British historian |- |[[Thomas Plume]] |1630 |1704 |English cleric, founder of the University's [[Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy|Plumian Chair of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy]] |- |[[Roy Porter]] |1946 |2002 |British historian |- |[[Beilby Porteus]] |1731 |1809 |[[Bishop of Chester]] and [[Bishop of London]], leading [[reform movement|reformer]] and [[Abolitionism in the United Kingdom|abolitionist]] |- |[[Maheshi Ramasamy]] | | |Physician and lecturer |- |[[Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell|Peter Rawlinson]] |1919 |2006 |[[Attorney General for England and Wales]] |- |[[Forrest Reid]] |1875 |1948 |Cambridge apostle, novelist, literary critic |- |[[Austin Robinson]] |1897 |1993 |British Economist and economic historian |- |[[Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham]] |1738 |1786 |British [[Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs|Foreign Secretary]] |- |[[David Say]] |1939 |2006 |Bishop of Rochester |- |[[Simon Schama|Sir Simon Schama]] |1945 | |British historian, author, and television presenter |- |[[Nicholas Serota|Sir Nicholas Serota]] |1946 | |Director of the Tate Gallery |- |[[Walter William Skeat]] |1835 |1912 |Philologist |- |[[Jan Smuts]] |1870 |1950 |[[Prime Minister of South Africa]], [[Field Marshal]], and [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] statesman |- |[[C. P. Snow|Charles Snow, Baron Snow]] |1905 |1980 |British novelist and philosopher |- |[[John Soothill]] |1925 |2004 |Paediatric immunologist |- |[[F. Gordon A. Stone]] |1925 |2011 |British chemist |- |[[Szeming Sze]] |1908 |1998 |Chinese Diplomat, WHO co-founder |- |[[Nicholas Tarling]] |1931 |2017 |Historian |- |[[Jeffrey Tate|Sir Jeffrey Tate]] |1943 |2017 |Conductor |- |[[John Tayloe III]] |1770 |1828 |Plantation owner, horse breeder and American politician. Imported [[Diomed]] to the United States |- |[[Henry Teonge]] |1620 |1690 |Naval chaplain and diarist |- |[[Andrew Turnbull, Baron Turnbull]] |1945 | |[[Cabinet Secretary (United Kingdom)|Cabinet Secretary]] and head of the [[British Civil Service|Civil Service]] |- |[[Edward Whitehead Reid]] |1883 |1930 |Aviator |- |[[Richard Whiteley]] |1943 |2005 |British television presenter |- |[[Rowan Williams]] |1950 | |British theologian, [[Anglican]] [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge |- |[[Erik Christopher Zeeman|Sir Christopher Zeeman]] |1925 |2016 |British mathematician |}
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