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===Notable alumni=== {{See also|Category:Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge}} <gallery class="center" mode="nolines"> File:John Cleese 2008 bigger crop.jpg|[[John Cleese]], actor and comedian File:Methode sundaytimes prod web bin 4cfcb2aa-2407-11e6-8efa-9d4401b01310.jpg|[[Quentin Blake]] English cartoonist, illustrator and children's writer File:William Philip Schreiner.jpg|[[William Philip Schreiner]], Prime Minister of the [[Cape Colony]] during the [[Second Boer War]] File:MikeAtherton.jpg|[[Michael Atherton]] broadcaster, journalist and a former England international [[Cricket|cricketer]]. File:Thandie Newton by Gage Skidmore.jpg|[[Thandiwe Newton]], [[British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA award]]-winning actress File:PSM V73 D096 Edwin Ray Lankester.jpg|[[Ray Lankester|Sir Ray Lankester]], invertebrate zoologist and evolutionary biologist File:John Pendry 2014c.jpg|[[John Pendry|Sir John Pendry]], theoretical physicist File:David Lloyd Jones.JPG|[[David Lloyd Jones, Lord Lloyd-Jones]], Justice of the [[Supreme Court of the United Kingdom]] File:Michael Winner, 2010 (cropped).jpg|[[Michael Winner]], film director and producer File:JLGreen.jpg|[[John Leslie Green]], [[Victoria Cross]] recipient File:Aitzaz ahsan.jpg|[[Aitzaz Ahsan]], Pakistani politician File:Andy Hamilton cropped.jpg|[[Andy Hamilton]], comedian </gallery> {{columns-list|colwidth=24em| * [[Peter Ackroyd (Biblical scholar)|Peter Ackroyd]], Biblical scholar * [[Michael Apted]], TV and film director and producer * [[Mike Atherton]], England cricket player * [[Martin Baker (organist)|Martin Baker]], Master of Music, [[Westminster Cathedral]] * [[Richard Baker (British businessman, born 1962)|Richard Baker]], former CEO of [[Boots Group]] * [[Richard Barbrook]], lecturer at [[University of Westminster]] * [[Michael Baxandall]], art historian * [[Farmida Bi]], lawyer * [[Quentin Blake]], author and illustrator * [[John Blofeld]], [[Taoism|Taoist]] and [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] author * [[Derek Bowett|Sir Derek Bowett]], international lawyer, former [[Whewell Professor of International Law]] * [[Giles Brindley]], physiologist * [[Frank Buttle]], priest and founder of two charities * [[John Cardy]], physicist * [[J. C. D. Clark]], historian * [[John Cleese]], actor and comedian of [[Monty Python]] fame * [[Geoffrey Cox (British politician)|Geoffrey Cox]] KC, barrister and Conservative MP * [[Mark Cox (tennis)|Mark Cox]], tennis player * [[Lawrence Collins, Baron Collins of Mapesbury|Lawrence Collins]], judge * [[Rob Crilly]], journalist and author * [[Scott Davidson (academic)|Scott Davidson]], VC, Professor of Law * [[Louise Dean (author)|Louise Dean]], author * [[Terrance Dicks]], author, TV writer, script editor, producer * [[Bernard Eder|Sir Bernard Eder]], High Court judge * [[D. J. Enright]], poet * [[Arnold Goodman]], lawyer * [[Hari Singh Gour]], lawyer and jurist * [[John Leslie Green]], VC * [[Richard Gregory]], experimental psychologist (neuropsychology, visual perception), author of Eye and Brain (1966) * [[Nick Griffin]], [[British National Party]] leader * [[Andy Hamilton]], comedian, director and critic * [[H. W. Harvey|Hildebrand Wolfe Harvey]], marine biologist * [[Hamish Henderson]], Scots poet * [[Philip Hobsbaum]], poet * [[David Holbrook]], poet, author, critic * [[Yong Pung How]], second [[Chief Justice of Singapore]] * [[Howard Jacobson]], novelist * [[Stan Kelly-Bootle]], pioneer computer scientist * [[Martin Kemp (art historian)|Martin Kemp]], art historian * [[Clive King]], author * [[Ray Lankester]], zoologist<ref>{{Cite book| contribution = Lankester, Sir (Edwin) Ray (1847β1929)| year = 2004| title = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography| editor-last = Bowler| editor-first = Peter J.| publisher = Oxford University Press| contribution-url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34406}}</ref> * Sir [[Frank Godbould Lee|Frank Lee]], civil servant, Master of [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge|Corpus Christi College]] * Sir [[Kim Lewison]], Lord Justice of Appeal * [[Godfrey Lienhardt]], anthropologist * [[Peter Lienhardt]], social anthropologist * [[David Lister (Origami Historian)|David Lister]], Origami historian * Lord [[David Lloyd Jones (judge)|David Lloyd Jones]], Justice of the [[Supreme Court of the United Kingdom]] * [[Malcolm MacDonald (music critic)|Malcolm MacDonald]], writer on music * Sir [[Richard McCombe]], Lord Justice of Appeal * [[Bernard Mayes]], journalist, professor and author * [[Ed Mayo]], economist * [[Wilfrid Mellers]], music critic and composer * [[Karl Miller]], literary editor, critic and writer * [[Mark Moore (Clifton College)|Mark Moore]], headmaster [[Clifton College]] * [[George Mosse]], historian * [[Henry Naylor]], comedian and playwright * [[Michael Neubert]], British politician * [[Thandiwe Newton]], actress * [[Trevor Nunn]], theatre and film director * [[Iain Overton]], investigative journalist * [[Tim Parks]], novelist, university professor, translator * [[Kathryn Parsons]], British tech entrepreneur, co-founder of Decoded * [[Gordon Pask]], cybernetician * [[Stuart Peach]], Air Chief Marshal and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee * [[John Pendry]], theoretical physicist * [[John Penrose]], politician * [[E.O.E. Pereira]], engineer * [[Rubel Phillips]], lawyer and politician from [[Mississippi]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/clarionledger/obituary.aspx?n=rubel-phillips&pid=152099370 |title=Rubel Phillips Obituary: View Rubel Phillips's Obituary by Clarion Ledger |publisher=Legacy.com |access-date=19 December 2011}}</ref> * [[Justin Pollard]], historian, writer * [[Victoria Prentis]] KC, Attorney General and Conservative MP * [[Amol Rajan]], former editor, ''[[The Independent]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.davidhigham.co.uk/clients/Amol-Rajan.htm|title=Amol Rajan|access-date=13 September 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819082436/http://www.davidhigham.co.uk/clients/Amol-Rajan.htm|archive-date=19 August 2014}}</ref><ref>Josh Halliday [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jun/17/amol-rajan-independent-editor "Amol Rajan appointed as Independent editor"], ''The Guardian'', 17 June 2013</ref> journalist, broadcaster * [[Brian Redhead]], author, journalist, broadcaster * [[Gordon Reece]], journalist, TV producer, political strategist * [[Derek Robinson (novelist)|Derek Robinson]], novelist, rugby official * [[Graham Savage]], Education Officer for London County Council, influential advocate for comprehensive schools * [[William Schreiner]], Prime Minister of the [[British Cape Colony|Cape Colony]] during the [[South African War]] * [[Francis Terry (architect)|Francis Terry]], classicist and architect * [[John Treherne]], Entomologist and author * [[Dorothy Trump]], geneticist * [[Leigh Turner]], diplomat * [[Tom Udall]], [[United States Senator]] from [[New Mexico]] * [[Rumi Verjee]], businessman and philanthropist * [[Annabel Vernon]], world rowing champion * [[Lord Wallace of Tankerness]], lawyer and politician; former Deputy First Minister of [[Scotland]] * [[Arthur Watts (barrister)|Arthur Watts]], international lawyer, diplomat and arbitrator * [[Richard Weber (mathematician)|Richard Weber]], mathematician * [[Philip William Wheeldon]], [[Bishop of Whitby]] and [[Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman]] * [[Caroline Wilson (diplomat)|Caroline Wilson]], diplomat * [[Michael Winner]], film director and producer, restaurant critic}}
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