University Of Cambridge
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Discover the notable alumni of University Of Cambridge. The list includes people like David Mitchell (Comedian), Sophie Winkleman, Diane Abbott, Walter Duranty & Hattie Morahan. This list of notable alumni is loosely sorted by popularity and has people from different domains of life, such as miscellaneous, writers, leaders, intellectuals & academics and scientists etc.
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Alan Turing(English Mathematician Who is Considered as the Father of Theoretical Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence)
Birthdate: June 23, 1912
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Maida Vale, London, England
Died: June 7, 1954
Birthdate: January 23, 1897
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Cuttack, India
Died: August 18, 1945
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
3
Ernest Rutherford(New Zealand Physicist Who is Known as the Father of Nuclear Physics)
Birthdate: August 30, 1871
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Brightwater, New Zealand
Died: October 19, 1937
4
James Maxwell(Scottish Mathematician and Scientist Who Gave the Classical Theory of Electromagnetic Radiation)
Birthdate: June 13, 1831
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland
Died: November 5, 1879
Birthdate: April 23, 1899
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: July 2, 1977
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John Donne(17th Century English Poet Who is Considered the Preeminent Representative of the Metaphysical Poets)
Birthdate: January 22, 1572
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: London, England
Died: March 31, 1631
Birthdate: November 15, 1915
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Lecropt, Perthshire, Scotland
Died: November 4, 1990
Height: 6'6" (198 cm)
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Natalie Dormer(English Actress Best Known for Her Role as ‘Anne Boleyn’ in the TV Series ‘The Tudors’)
Birthdate: February 11, 1982
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Height: 5'6" (168 cm)
Birthdate: December 9, 1946
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Lusiana, Lusiana Conco, Italy
Height: 5'4" (163 cm)
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Stephen Fry(English Actor, Writer and Director Known for His Films: ‘V for Vendetta’ and ‘A Fish Called Wanda’)
Birthdate: August 24, 1957
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom
Height: 6'5" (196 cm)
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Paul Dirac(One of the Most Significant Physicists of the 20th Century and Nobel Laureate)
Birthdate: August 8, 1902
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Bristol, England
Died: October 20, 1984
Birthdate: September 27, 1953
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Paddington, London, England, United Kingdom
Birthdate: November 26, 1948
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Hobart, Australia
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M. S. Swaminathan(Indian Agronomist Who is Known as the Main Architect of the Green Revolution in India)
Birthdate: August 7, 1925
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Kumbakonam, India
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Charles Shaughnessy(Best Known for His Role as ‘Shane Donovan’ in the TV Soap Opera ‘Days of Our Lives’)
Birthdate: February 9, 1955
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: London, England
Height: 5'11" (180 cm)
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Kevin McCloud
(Designer and Presenter of the Channel 4 Show 'Grand Designs' for Guiding Adventurous Home Builders)
Birthdate: May 8, 1959
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Bedfordshire, England
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
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Françoise Gilot
(French Painter Best Known for Her Relationship with 'Pablo Picasso')
Birthdate: November 26, 1921
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
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Thomas Wyatt
(Politician and Poet Known for Introducing the 'Sonnet' to English Literature)
Birthdate: 1503 AD
Birthplace: Allington Castle, Kent, England
Died: October 11, 1542
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Peter Shaffer
(Playwright)
Birthdate: May 15, 1926
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Liverpool, England
Died: June 6, 2016
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Sonali Deraniyagala
(Memoirist, Economist)
Birthdate: 1964 AD
Birthplace: Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Paul Kalanithi
(American Neurosurgeon Known for His Memoir 'When Breath Becomes Air')
Birthdate: April 1, 1977
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: New York, United States
Died: March 9, 2015
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Mark Oliphant(Australian Physicist Who Played an Important Role in the First Experimental Demonstration of Nuclear Fusion)
Birthdate: October 8, 1901
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Adelaide, Australia
Died: July 14, 2000
Birthdate: July 7, 1941
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Rochdale, Lancashire, England, UK
Height: 5'3" (160 cm)
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George Herbert(Poet recognized as one of the foremost British devotional lyricists)
Birthdate: April 3, 1593
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Montgomery, Wales
Died: March 1, 1633
Birthdate: December 5, 1991
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Falls Church, Virginia, United States
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Mary Parker Follett
(Social Woker)
Birthdate: September 3, 1868
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Quincy, Massachusetts, United States
Died: December 18, 1933
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John Kendrew(English Biochemist, Crystallographer and One of the Winners of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
Birthdate: March 24, 1917
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Died: August 23, 1997
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Herb Elliott
(Former Australian Athlete and the World’s Greatest Middle Distance Runner of His Era)
Birthdate: February 25, 1938
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia
Height: 5'11" (180 cm)
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Martin Rees
(British Cosmologist and Astrophysicist)
Birthdate: June 23, 1942
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: York, England
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell
(British Astrophysicist Who Discovered the First Radio Pulsars)
Birthdate: July 15, 1943
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Lurgan, Northern Ireland
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Chris Terrio
(Screenwriter)
Birthdate: December 31, 1976
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Staten Island, New York (state) New York, United States
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Robbie Ross
(Canadian-British Journalist, Art Dealer, and Art Critic)
Birthdate: May 25, 1869
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Tours, France
Died: October 5, 1918
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Mostafa El-Abbadi
(Egyptian Public Intellectual, Historian, and Professor)
Birthdate: October 10, 1928
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Cairo, Egypt
Died: February 13, 2017
34
Vladimir Bukovsky
(Writer)
Birthdate: December 30, 1942
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Belebey, Russia
Died: October 27, 2019
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Stewart Butterfield
(Entrepreneur)
Birthdate: May 1, 1973
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Lund, British Columbia, Canada
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Alexander Vinokourov
(Bicycle Racer)
Birthdate: September 16, 1973
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Beskol', Bishkul, Kazakhstan
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
Birthdate: May 25, 1913
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: London, England
Died: March 6, 1983
Birthdate: May 13, 1905
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Old Delhi, India
Died: February 11, 1977
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Arthur Cecil Pigou
(British Economist Best Known for His Work in Welfare Economics)
Birthdate: November 18, 1877
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Ryde, Isle of Wight, England
Died: March 7, 1959
Birthdate: May 24, 1544
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Colchester , England, United Kingdom
Died: November 30, 1603
Birthdate: March 7, 1930
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Belgravia
Died: January 13, 2017
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John Ambrose Fleming
(British Electrical Engineer and Physicist Who Invented the First 'Thermionic Valve' or 'Vacuum Tube')
Birthdate: November 29, 1849
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Lancaster, Lancashire, England
Died: April 18, 1945
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Peter Bradshaw
(Writer and film critic)
Birthdate: June 19, 1962
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: England
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Andrew Huxley(English Physiologist, Biophysicist and Winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology / Medicine)
Birthdate: November 22, 1917
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Hampstead, London, England
Died: May 30, 2012
Birthdate: August 16, 1990
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Niigata, Japan
Birthdate: March 27, 1942
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Cambridge, England
Died: March 6, 2018
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Sylvana Tomaselli
(Historian)
Birthdate: May 28, 1957
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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Roger Scruton( English Philosopher and Writer Who Specialised in Aesthetics and Political Philosophy)
Birthdate: February 27, 1944
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
Died: January 12, 2020
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Duncan Haldane
(British Physicist Known for His Work on Explaining Properties of One-Dimensional Chains of Atomic Magnets)
Birthdate: September 14, 1951
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: London, England
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Abba Kyari
(Businessperson)
Birthdate: September 23, 1952
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Borno, Nigeria
Died: April 17, 2020
