Trinity College, Cambridge Notable Alumni

Check out the list of notable Trinity College, Cambridge alumni. Some of the notable Trinity College, Cambridge students are Isaac Newton, Jawaharlal Nehru, Charles, Prince of Wales, Lord Byron and Srinivasa Ramanujan.

Founded by Henry VIII in 1546, Trinity College, Cambridge enthralls its students as well as pupils from the whole of the United Kingdom. The breathtaking campus is not just scenic but is renowned for the quality education it provides. Students receiving education here turn out to be famous personalities, and excel in different genres. Currently the home of 600 undergraduates, 300 graduates, and over 180 Fellows, Trinity College, Cambridge aspire students with its alumni, who have achieved heights in their career. Isaac Newton, an English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist studied in this college. Ernest Rutherford, known as the father of nuclear physics and a recipient of the Nobel Prize for “investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances” joined Trinity as a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory under J.J. Thomson. Srinivasa Ramanujan, the other prominent alumnus from the Trinity College, Cambridge is popularly known for his theorems and contributions towards mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. Some other distinguished personalities who received their education from the Trinity College, Cambridge include poet Lord Byron, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, Soviet spies Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt. Besides, Trinity is the only college to achieve 32 Nobel Prizes, 5 Fields Medals in mathematics, and 1 Abel Prize. To find out the other famous alumni from the Trinity College Cambridge, keep reading.

Isaac Newton
(Physicist, Mathematician, Astronomer)

25 December 1642

20 March 1727

Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth

British

Capricorn

Jawaharlal Nehru
(First PM of India & Freedom Fighter)

14 November 1889

27 May 1964

Allahabad

Indian

Scorpio

Charles, Prince of Wales
(Prince of Wales)

14 November 1948

Buckingham Palace

British

Scorpio

Srinivasa Ramanujan
(Mathematician)

22 December 1887

26 April 1920

Erode

Indian

Sagittarius

Edward VII
(King of United Kingdom)

09 November 1841

06 May 1910

Buckingham Palace

British

Scorpio

Aleister Crowley

12 October 1875

01 December 1947

Leamington Spa

British

Libra

Francis Bacon
(Philosopher)

22 January 1561

09 April 1626

Strand, London, England

British

Aquarius

Bertrand Russell
(Philosopher)

18 May 1872

02 February 1970

Trellech, Monmouthshire, UK

British,Welsh

Taurus

Charles Babbage
(Father of the computer)

26 December 1791

18 October 1871

London

British

Capricorn

Ludwig Wittgenstein
(Philosopher)

26 April 1889

29 April 1951

Vienna

Austrian

Taurus

Ernest Rutherford
(Physicist, Chemist)

30 August 1871

19 October 1937

Brightwater, New Zealand

New Zealander,British

Virgo

Muhammad Iqbal
(Poet & Philosopher)

09 November 1877

21 April 1938

Sialkot, Punjab, British India

Pakistani

Scorpio

J. J. Thomson
(Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner)

18 December 1856

30 August 1940

Manchester, Lancashire, UK

British

Sagittarius

Amartya Sen
(Economist & Philosopher)

03 November 1933

Santiniketan

Indian

Scorpio

Francis Galton
(Polymath)

16 February 1822

17 January 1911

Birmingham

British

Aquarius

Lee Hsien Loong
(Third Prime Minister of Singapore)

10 February 1952

Singapore

Singaporean

Aquarius

Vladimir Nabokov
(Novelist)

22 April 1899

02 July 1977

Saint Petersburg

American,Russian

Taurus

Rajiv Gandhi

20 August 1944

21 May 1991

Mumbai

Indian

Leo

George Herbert
(Poet)

03 April 1593

01 March 1633

Montgomery

British,Welsh

Aries

Enoch Powell

16 June 1912

08 February 1998

Birmingham

British

Gemini

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

19 October 1910

21 August 1995

Lahore, British India

Indian

Libra

A. A. Milne
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)

18 January 1882

31 January 1956

Kilburn, London

British

Capricorn

Ralph Vaughan Williams
(Composer)

12 October 1872

26 August 1958

Down Ampney

British

Libra

Jared Diamond
(Scientist & Author)

10 September 1937

Boston, Massachusetts, US

American

Virgo

Stanley Baldwin
(Former British Prime Minister)

03 August 1867

14 December 1947

Bewdley

British

Leo

John Dryden

09 August 1631

12 May 1700

Northamptonshire, England

British

Leo

Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)

15 February 1861

30 December 1947

Ramsgate, Kent, England

British,American

Aquarius

G. H. Hardy
(Mathematician)

07 February 1877

01 December 1947

Cranleigh, United Kingdom

British

Aquarius

Arthur Balfour
(Former Prime Minister of Britain)

25 July 1848

19 March 1930

Whittingehame

British

Leo

William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author & Novelist)

18 July 1811

24 December 1863

India

British

Cancer

Henry Fox Talbot
(Inventor)

11 February 1800

17 September 1877

Dorset

British

Aquarius

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
(Political figure)

10 November 1565

25 February 1601

England

British

Scorpio

Arthur Eddington
(Astronomer)

28 December 1882

22 November 1944

Kendal

British

Capricorn

Andrew Marvell
(Poet)

31 March 1621

16 August 1678

Winestead, England

British

Aries

Alfred Lord Tennyson
(Poet)

05 August 1809

06 October 1892

Somersby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom

British

Leo

Christopher Alexander

04 October 1936

Vienna, Austria

Libra

Austen Chamberlain
(Politician)

16 October 1863

17 March 1937

Birmingham

British

Libra

William Henry Bragg
(Nobel Prize Winner in Physics)

02 July 1862

10 March 1942

Wigton

British

Cancer

John Ray
(Naturalist)

29 November 1627

17 January 1705

Black Notley, near Braintree

British

Sagittarius

Ernest Walton
(Physicist)

06 October 1903

25 June 1995

Dungarvan

Irish

Libra

Arthur Cayley
(Mathematician)

16 August 1821

26 January 1895

Richmond, Surrey, UK

British

Leo

Andrew Huxley
(Physiologist & Biophysicist)

22 November 1917

30 May 2012

Hampstead, London, England

British

Scorpio

Pyotr Kapitsa
(Physicist)

08 July 1894

08 April 1984

Kronstadt, Russian Empire

Russian

Cancer

Lord Rayleigh
(Discoverer of Argon)

12 November 1842

30 June 1919

Langford Grove, Maldon, Essex, England

British

Scorpio

George Paget Thomson
(Physicist)

03 May 1892

10 September 1975

Cambridge

British

Taurus

Aaron Klug
(Chemist & Biophysicist)

11 August 1926

Lithuania

British

Leo

Martin Ryle
(Astronomer)

27 September 1918

14 October 1984

Brighton

British

Libra

Walter Gilbert
(Biochemist, Physicist, Molecular Biologist)

21 March 1932

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

American

Aries

Brian Josephson
(Physicist)

04 January 1940

Cardiff

British

Capricorn

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
(Biophysicist & Physiologist)

05 February 1914

20 December 1998

Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK

British

Aquarius

Francis William Aston
(Chemist & Physicist)

01 September 1877

20 November 1945

Harborne, Birmingham

British

Virgo

James Mirrlees
(Economist)

05 July 1936

Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

British

Cancer

Archibald Hill
(Physiologist)

26 September 1886

03 June 1977

Bristol

British

Libra

James Meade
(Economist)

23 June 1907

22 December 1995

Swanage, United Kingdom

British

Cancer

Frederick Gowland Hopkins
(English biochemist)

20 June 1861

16 May 1947

Eastbourne

British

Gemini

Henry Hallett Dale
(Physiologist & Pharmacologist)

09 June 1875

23 July 1968

Islington

British

Gemini

Owen Willans Richardson
(Physicist)

26 April 1879

15 February 1959

Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England

British

Taurus

Abraham Cowley
(Poet)

1618 AD

28 July 1667

London

British

John Kendrew
(Biochemist and Crystallographer)

24 March 1917

23 August 1997

Oxford, United Kingdom

British

Aries

Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian
(Electrophysiologist)

30 November 1889

04 August 1977

Hampstead

British

Sagittarius

Charles Glover Barkla
(Physicist)

07 June 1877

23 October 1944

Widnes, Lancashire, England

British

Gemini

Richard Laurence Millington Synge
(Biochemist)

28 October 1914

18 August 1994

Liverpool, England

British

Scorpio

Edward Arthur Milne
(Astrophysicist)

14 February 1896

21 September 1950

Kingston upon Hull

British

Aquarius

Sir William Lawrence Bragg
(Nobel Laureate in Physics)

31 March 1890

01 July 1971

North Adelaide, South Australia

British

Aries

George VI
(Military personnel)

14 December 1895

06 February 1952

York Cottage

British

Sagittarius

Lawrence Lessig
(Jurist, Activist, Lawyer, Non-fiction writer, Computer scientist, Politician, Professor)

03 June 1961

Rapid City

American

Gemini

Kim Philby
(Spy, Journalist)

01 January 1912

11 May 1988

Ambala

British

Capricorn

Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
(Politician)

13 March 1764

17 July 1845

Fallodon

Pisces

Evelyn Robert de Rothschild
(Banker, Polo player)

29 August 1931

British

Virgo

Alfred de Rothschild
(Banker, Diplomat)

20 July 1842

31 January 1918

London

British

Cancer

Antony Gormley
(Sculptor, Artist)

30 August 1950

London

British

Virgo

Guy Burgess
(Spy, Journalist)

16 April 1911

30 August 1963

Devon

British

Aries

Robert Erskine Childers
(Writer, Politician, Novelist)

25 June 1870

24 November 1922

Glendalough

Irish

Cancer

Stephen Frears
(Actor, Film director, Film producer)

20 June 1941

Leicester

British

Gemini

Spencer Perceval
(Politician, Lawyer)

01 November 1762

11 May 1812

Mayfair

British

Scorpio

Toby Young
(Journalist)

17 October 1963

Buckinghamshire

British

Libra

William Lawrence Bragg
(Mathematician, Physicist, University teacher)

31 March 1890

01 July 1971

Adelaide

Australian,British

Aries

Michael Atiyah
(Mathematician, Topologist, University teacher)

22 April 1929

London

British

Taurus

Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
(Politician, Banker)

08 November 1840

31 March 1915

London

British

Scorpio

Henry Campbell-Bannerman
(Politician, Diplomat)

07 September 1836

22 April 1908

Glasgow

British

Virgo

Peter Shaffer
(Screenwriter, Playwright, Writer, Literary critic)

15 May 1926

06 June 2016

Liverpool

British

Taurus

Timothy Gowers
(Mathematician, University teacher)

20 November 1963

Wiltshire

British

Scorpio

John Polkinghorne
(Physicist, Theoretical physicist)

16 October 1930

Weston-super-Mare

British

Libra

Frank P. Ramsey
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Economist)

22 February 1903

19 January 1930

Cambridge

British

Pisces

Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
(Anthropologist, Sociologist)

17 January 1881

24 October 1955

Birmingham

British

Capricorn

Mahbub ul Haq
(Economist, Politician, Financier, Banker)

22 February 1934

16 July 1998

Jammu

Pakistani

Pisces

Jonathan Coe
(Novelist, Author)

Peter Scott
(Ornithologist, Illustrator, Painter, Postage stamp designer)

14 September 1909

29 August 1989

London

British

Virgo

Steven Strogatz
(Mathematician, Physicist, University teacher)

13 August 1959

Torrington

American

Leo

George Darwin
(Mathematician, Astronomer)

09 July 1845

07 December 1912

London Borough of Bromley

British

Cancer

Thom Gunn
(Writer)

29 August 1929

25 April 2004

Gravesend

British

Virgo

Stanley Bruce
(Politician, Diplomat, Lawyer)

15 April 1883

25 August 1967

Melbourne

Australian

Aries

George Biddell Airy
(Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist, University teacher)

27 July 1801

02 January 1892

Alnwick

Leo

John Pople
(Mathematician, Chemist, University teacher)

31 October 1925

15 March 2004

Burnham-on-Sea

British

Scorpio

Bibek Debroy
(Economist)

25 January 1955

India

Indian

Aquarius

Simon Blackburn
(Philosopher, University teacher)

12 July 1944

Chipping Sodbury

British

Cancer

Nicholas Patrick
(Astronaut)

19 November 1964

Saltburn-by-the-Sea

American

Scorpio

G. I. Taylor
(Physicist, Engineer, Mathematician, Meteorologist)

07 March 1886

27 June 1975

England

British

Pisces

John Edensor Littlewood
(Mathematician, University teacher)

09 June 1885

06 September 1977

Rochester

British

Gemini

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