List of alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge

This is a list of alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

• M. H. Abrams – literary theorist and critic
• J. R. Ackerley – writer and poet
• Michael Adeane, Baron Adeane – Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II
• Simon Ambrose – winner of The Apprentice (Season 3)
• Arthur Annesley, 5th Earl of Anglesey – Tory politician
• Le'ul Ras Asfa-Wossen Asserate – Ethiopian political analyst and consultant
• Richard Atkinson – Bishop of Bedford
• Sir Frank Baddeley – British colonial administrator
• Giles Baring – cricketer
• Simon Barrington-Ward – Bishop of Coventry (1985–1997)
• Lieutenant Colonel Charles Beauclerk, 13th Duke of St Albans – British Army officer
• Peter Beck – soldier and schoolmaster^[1]
• Edward Behr – journalist
• Henry Bellingham, Baron Bellingham – Member of Parliament for North West Norfolk; former junior minister at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Peter Bennett-Jones – TV producer
• A. C. Benson – librettist of Land of Hope and Glory
• Michael Binyon – foreign correspondent for The Times; now Leader Writer
• Sir Michael Birt KC – barrister, 88th Bailiff of Jersey
• Patrick Blackett – Nobel Prize-winning physicist
• Sir Nicholas Blake – Judge of the High Court of Justice
• Norman Blake – Middle English and Early Modern English language and literature scholar
• Sir John Boardman – archaeologist, Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology
• Victor Bonham-Carter – author and publisher
• Desmond Bristow – intelligence officer
• John Bromley – 17th-century Catholic convert and translator of The Catechism for the Curats, composed by the Decree of the Council of Trent, faithfully translated into English (London 1687)
• Charles Vyner Brooke – last White Rajah of Sarawak
• John Browett – businessman
• Sir Simon Bryan – Judge of the High Court of Justice
• Anthony Bull – transport engineer
• Mike Bullen – TV screenwriter
• David Burghley – gold medalist of the 1928 Olympic Games in 400m hurdles
• Clemency Burton-Hill – broadcaster, novelist, journalist, and violinist
• Anthony Caesar – English priest and composer^[2]
• Sir David Calcutt – former Master and barrister
• Serban Cantacuzino – Romanian architect
• Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Capell, 9th Earl of Essex – British Army officer
• William Cash – journalist and author
• William Cecil, 5th Marquess of Exeter – aristocrat
• Henry Chadwick – former head of Christ Church, Oxford
• Sir John Chadwick – Lord Justice of Appeal
• H. K. Chainani – Chief Justice of Bombay High Court
• Hugh Cholmondeley, 6th Marquess of Cholmondeley – Lord Great Chamberlain
• Hugh Cholmondeley, 5th Baron Delamere – British peer
• Greg Clark – Member of Parliament for Tunbridge Wells; former Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and former President of the Board of Trade
• John Talbot Clifton – landowner and traveller
• Sam Coates – journalist
• Arthur Cohen – lawyer and Liberal politician; first Jewish graduate of Cambridge University
• Hugh Courtenay, 18th Earl of Devon – aristocrat
• Peter Cowie – film historian
• Stella Creasy – Member of Parliament for Walthamstow
• Joe Crowley – TV presenter and broadcast journalist
• Richard Cumberland – philosopher and Bishop of Peterborough in the Church of England
• Robyn Curnow – South African journalist and news anchor
• Kulada Charan Das Gupta – Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court
• Blessed William Dean – Catholic priest and martyr
• Katie Derham – TV newsreader
• Richard Deverell – director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Frank Dickens – biochemist
• Simon Doggart – Cambridge cricketer and a co-abuser in the Church of England John Smyth abuse of young men scandal
• Monty Don – gardener
• William Donaldson – creator of Henry Root
• John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry – aristocrat
• Nick Drake – poet and playwright
• Fuchsia Dunlop – writer and cook
• Henry Dunster – first president of Harvard University
• Sir James Eadie KC – barrister
• Sir Alexander Ellis – diplomat, former High Commissioner to India
• William Empson – literary critic and poet
• Nick Estcourt – mountaineer
• Derek Ezra, Baron Ezra – former chairman of the National Coal Board
• Julian Fellowes – actor and Academy Award-winning screenwriter
• Major Frederick Fermor-Hesketh, 2nd Baron Hesketh – British Army officer
• Eric Fernihough – Brooklands and world motorcycle speed record holder
• Hugh FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton – aristocrat
• James FitzRoy, Earl of Euston – British financier and aristocrat
• Matthew Fosh – cricketer and rugby union player
• Peter Fudakowski – Academy Award-winning film producer
• Joe Garner – former CEO of Nationwide Building Society
• Bamber Gascoigne – TV presenter, University Challenge
• John Gaule – Puritan priest
• Robin Warwick Gibson – former Chief Curator of National Portrait Gallery, London; art historian & writer
• Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester – member of the British royal family
• Prince William of Gloucester – member of the British royal family
• Joscelyn Godwin – historian and composer
• Maurice Goldhaber – American physicist
• Barnabas Gooch – vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge and politician
• Reuben Goodstein – mathematician
• Iain Gordon – mathematician
• Siram Govindarajulu – founding vice-chancellor of Sri Venkateswara University
• David Grainger – British venture capitalist
• Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg – British politician and colonial administrator; older brother of Robert
• Sir Robert Grant – British lawyer, politician, and hymnist; younger brother of Charles
• Andrew Green, Baron Green of Deddington – diplomat, founding president of MigrationWatchUK
• Sir Christopher Greenwood KC – Judge of the International Court of Justice (2009-2018)
• Antony Grey – pioneer in gay rights activism
• Richard Griffin, 3rd Baron Baybrooke – Whig politician
• Malcolm Grimston – nuclear energy advocate and author
• Sir Loyd Grossman – chef, musician, television presenter, sauce maker
• Peter Grubb – ecologist
• Karl W. Gruenberg – British mathematician
• Jeremy Harding – writer
• William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel – Labour politician
• Sir Norman Hartnell – couturier and dressmaker to the Queen
• Abdul Khalek Hassouna – Egyptian politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the Arab League
• Gavin Hastings – international rugby sportsperson
• Julian Haviland – former Political Editor of ITN and The Times
• Nick Herbert, Baron Herbert of South Downs – Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs; former Minister of State for Police and Criminal Justice
• Michael Hofmann – poet and translator
• Adam Holloway – Member of Parliament for Gravesham, Reform politician
• Brigadier Martin Hotine – British Army officer and surveyor
• Sir Robert Howard – playwright
• David Hoyle – Dean of Westminster
• Guy Innes-Kerr, 10th Duke of Roxburghe – aristocrat
• George Cecil Ives – poet and homosexual rights activist
• John James – Archdeacon of Llandaff in the Church of Wales
• Oliver James – psychologist
• Sir Antony Jay – co-screenwriter of Yes Minister
• Richard Johnson – first chaplain to Australia
• Sir Richard Jolly – development economist
• Igor Judge, Baron Judge – Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (2008–2013)
• Tim Kelsey – CEO of Beamtree
• Akhtar Hameed Khan – social scientist
• Charles Kingsley – author of The Water Babies and Regius Professor of Modern History
• R. F. Kuang – author; Hugo Award-winning Chinese American fantasy writer of Babel and The Poppy War; known also for Yellowface
• Charles La Trobe – first lieutenant-governor of Victoria, Australia^[3]
• David Lack – biologist
• Monsignor Mark Langham – Catholic priest, chaplain to the University of Cambridge at Fisher House
• Lewis H. Lapham – American writer; editor of Lapham's Quarterly; former editor of Harper's Magazine
• Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory – air vice marshal at the Battle of Britain
• Major David Lindesay-Bethune, 15th Earl of Lindsay – British Army officer
• Chris Lintott – astrophysicist
• Selwyn Lloyd – former Foreign Secretary; Chancellor of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Commons
• Andrew Lownie – historian and author
• Lancelot Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale – aristocrat
• Nicholas Luard – writer and politician
• Mark Malloch Brown – former United Nations Deputy Secretary-General and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• George Mallory – mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s
• William Mann – music critic on The Times (1948–1982)
• John Manningham – sixteenth- and seventeenth-century diarist, lawyer; noted for recording details of an original performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
• Samuel Marsden – priest and missionary in the Church of England
• Kingsley Martin – journalist
• Tristan McConnell – journalist
• John McPhee – Pulitzer Prize-winning writer
• Sir Samuel Morland – diplomat, spy, inventor, mathematician
• Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin – former president of the International Olympic Committee
• Roger Morris – electrical engineer
• Sir Andrew Morritt – Chancellor of the High Court of Justice
• Major Lord Leopold Mountbatten – British Army officer
• Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II – current Kabaka of Buganda
• Sir Edward Frederick Mutesa II – former Kabaka of Buganda and President of Uganda
• Charles Neville, 5th Baron Baybrooke – aristocrat
• Mike Newell – film director of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Adam Nicolson, 5th Baron Carnock – historian and author, son of Nigel Nicolson and grandson of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
• Patrick Nixon – diplomat
• Charles Kay Ogden – literary critic
• Sir Jonathan Parker – Lord Justice of Appeal
• Charles Stewart Parnell (did not graduate) – Irish nationalist
• Daniel Pedoe – mathematician
• Francis Penrose – architect and astronomer
• Samuel Pepys – naval administrator, MP, and diarist
• Allen Dain Percival – musician and composer; Principal of the Guildhall School of Music; executive chairman of Stainer & Bell^[4]
• Sir Simon Picken – Judge of the High Court of Justice
• Ardal Powell – maker and player of historical flutes
• Francis Pym, Baron Pym – former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• Arthur Stanley Ramsey – mathematician, President of Magdalene College
• Michael Ramsey – Archbishop of Canterbury
• Julian Rathbone – English novelist and Booker Prize-shortlisted author
• Sir Michael Redgrave – actor
• Richard Rhys, 9th Baron Dynevor – aristocrat
• Jon Ridgeon – former British Olympic athlete and current CEO of World Athletics (2018–present)
• I. A. Richards – literary critic
• Sir Andrew Ritchie – High Court judge
• Stephen Christopher Rowell – historian
• Alan Rusbridger – editor of The Guardian
• Conroy Ryder, 8th Earl of Harrowby – aristocrat
• Warren Sach – United Nations executive
• Sir Frederic Salusbury – editor of the Daily Herald
• Rina Sawayama – singer
• Lieutenant Colonel James Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger – British Army officer
• Colonel John Selwyn-Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd – barrister, British Army officer, Conservative politician, Speaker of the House of Commons
• Nicholas Shakespeare – novelist
• Charles Shaughnessy, 5th Baron Shaughnessy – British actor
• Simon Shaps – TV producer
• John Shaw – American civil servant
• Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers – Conservative politician
• Major William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle – British Army officer, 15th governor-general of Australia
• John Simpson – journalist
• George Sinclair, 15th Earl of Caithness – Scottish aristocrat
• Bhalindra Singh – cricketer and politician
• Prince Frederick Duleep Singh – crown prince of Punjab
• Nicholas Snowman – arts administrator and chairman of the jewellers Wartski^[5]
• Jacob Soll – historian and philosopher
• Dame Sarah Springman – engineer and academic, Principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford
• Henry St John, 18th Baron St John of Bletso – British peer
• Sir Christopher Staughton – Lord Justice of Appeal
• James Stourton – art historian
• John Young Stratton – author, essayist, social reformer and campaigner against rural poverty
• Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder – Marshal of the Royal Air Force, World War II
• John Tedder, 2nd Baron Tedder – Professor of Chemistry; expert in free radical chemistry
• Sir Iain Tennant – businessman
• Nanavira Thera – Buddhist monk
• Major General Robert Thomson – British Army officer
• Charit Tingsabadh – Thai economist
• John Treasure – advertising executive
• Sir Richard Turnbull – British colonial administrator
• Sir Michael Turner – High Court judge
• Erik Varden – Catholic Bishop-Prelate of Trondheim
• Philip Vellacott – classical scholar
• Roger Vignoles – concert pianist and accompanist
• Rob Wainwright – international rugby player
• Geoffrey Webb – art historian
• Mark Weedon – cricketer
• Thomas Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 10th Earl Fitzwilliam – aristocrat
• Chevalier Rafał de Weryha-Wysoczański – Polish art historian
• Geoffrey Whitney – sixteenth-century poet and emblematist
• Wong Yan-lung – Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong
• David Yelland – actor