List of alumni of King's College, Cambridge
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Notable alumni of King's College, Cambridge include prime ministers, archbishops, presidents, and academics.
Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of Great Britain
M. R. James, scholar and ghost-story writer
George Santayana, philosopher
E. M. Forster, novelist
John Maynard Keynes, economist
Rupert Brooke, poet
Philip Noel-Baker, Olympic medallist and Nobel laureate in peace
Xu Zhimo, poet
Alan Turing, mathematician and computer scientist
Salman Rushdie, novelist
Stephen Poliakoff, playwright and director
David Baddiel, comedian
Zadie Smith, novelist
- Martin Bell, former politician and reporter
- Charles Clarke, former British Home Secretary
- Philip Noel-Baker, politician, Olympic medallist and recipient of a Nobel Prize
- Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, judge and Lord Chancellor
- David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville, peer and Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
- Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, Secretary of State, who was also known for his interest in agriculture and his role in the British Agricultural Revolution
- Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain
- Francis Walsingham, spymaster to Queen Elizabeth I of England
Law
- Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon, barrister and vice-chancellor
- Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers, former President of the British Supreme Court
- Dame Eleanor Sharpston, former Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union
Clergy
- Richard Cox, Chancellor of Oxford before appointment as Dean of Westminster and eventually Bishop of Ely
- John Frith, 16th-century Protestant martyr
- John Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury
- William Thomas
Writers
- J. G. Ballard, author
- Rupert Brooke, poet
- E. M. Forster, author
- Sir John Harington, author and translator of Aristotle
- Martin Jacques, author
- M. R. James, writer and medievalist (student, fellow, and Provost)
- Stephen Poliakoff, playwright
- Walter Raleigh, poet
- Salman Rushdie, author
- Zadie Smith, author
- Patrick White, Australian novelist and playwright and Nobel Prize winner
- Xu Zhimo, poet
Media and musicians
- Thomas Ades, composer
- Julian Anderson, composer
- David Baddiel, comedian
- George Benjamin, composer
- Lily Cole, model, author and actress
- James Gilchrist, tenor
- King's Singers, Grammy Award-winning a cappella group
- John Spiers, folk musician
- Judith Weir composer (Master of the Queen's Music)
- John Whitworth, countertenor [1]