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Christ's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its alumni include politicians, lawyers, bishops, poets, and academics.

Among politicians, the college's alumni include heads of government (Jan Smuts of South Africa and John Kotelawala of Sri Lanka), as well as several parliamentarians from various countries. Notable scientists, including Charles Darwin and J. Robert Oppenheimer, as well as Nobel laureate Duncan Haldane have studied at the college. Sportspersons associated with the college include several Olympic medalists.

Alumni

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The sub-headings are given as a general guide and some names might fit under more than one category.

Abbreviations used in the following tables

  • DNG – Did not graduate: left the college without taking a degree

Degree abbreviations

Arts

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Name Degree Notability Ref
Anthony Caro [1]
Tom de Freston [2]
Phillip King [3]

Business

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Name Degree Notability Ref
Ian Cheshire [4]
Jonathan Galassi [5]
David Ross Granger [6]
Yusuf Hamied [7][8]
Mike Lynch [9]
Martin Sorrell [10]

Humanities and social sciences

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Name Degree Notability Ref
J. W. Burrow Historian
Percy Gardner BA 1869 [11]
Harinath De Indologist, polyglot [12]
John Leland Antiquary [13]
Madhavan_K._Palat Historian
John H. Plumb Historian [14]
Roy Porter Historian [15]
John Holland Rose Historian
John Robert Seeley Historian [16]
Walter William Skeat Philologist [17]
William Robertson Smith Orientalist, Old Testament scholar, professor of divinity [18]
Taw Sein Ko Burmese archaeologist [19]

Religion

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Name Degree Notability Ref
Frederick Cornwallis Archbishop of Canterbury [20]
Richard Cheyney Bishop of Gloucester [21]
Jill Duff Bishop of Lancaster
Edmund Grindal Archbishop of Canterbury [22]
Matthew Hutton Archbishop of Canterbury [23]
Thomas Jones Archbishop of Dublin [24]
Edmund Law Bishop of Carlisle [25]
William Paley [26]
Hugh Thomas (priest) [27]
Armitage Robinson [28]
William Pope (priest) [29]

Politicians, civil servants, royalty and nobility

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Name Degree Notability Ref
Anandamohan Bose Indian nationalist, President of the Indian National Congress [30]
Sam Carling MP for North West Cambridgeshire [31]
James Chuter Ede [32]
Cuthbert Ellison MP for Newcastle [33]
Henry Finch MP for Canterbury [34]
James FitzGerald [35]
William Grimston MP [36]
John Healy MP [37]
John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire Lord Lieutenant of Ireland [38]
Sir John Jardine, 1st Baronet MP for Roxburghshire [39]
Heng Swee Keat Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore [40]
Lim Hng Kiang Singaporean politician; Minister for Trade and Industry [41]
John Kotelawala Prime Minister of Ceylon
Manmath Chandra Mallik Barrister, writer, and Liberal Party politician [42]
Thomas Nelson Jr. Governor of Virginia [43]
Zeid bin Ra'ad Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations [44]
Jan Smuts Prime Minister of South Africa [45]
Sir William Spring, 2nd Baronet MP for Suffolk
Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham Foreign Secretary [46]
Thomas White MP for East Retford
Walter Wren [47]
Oliver Wright [48]
Ra'ad bin Zeid

Judges

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Name Notability
Mian Abdul Rashid Chief Justice of Pakistan
Mahomed Hameed Ullah Khan Chief Justice of Hyderabad State [49]

Science, technology, and mathematics

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Name Degree Notability Ref
John George Adami [50]
Charles Alfred Barber [51]
Jagdish Chandra Bose BA 1884 Indian polymath; Known for his contributions to botany and microwave radio optics [52]
John Clark British geneticist [53]
Charles Darwin English naturalist and biologist; Known for describing the theory of evolution [54]
Francis Darwin [55]
C. J. Eliezer PhD
Martin Evans British biologist; Nobel laureate
Duncan Haldane British physicist; Nobel laureate [56]
E. W. Hobson
Leon Isserlis
Archibald Liversidge British chemist and mineralogist [57]
J. Robert Oppenheimer DNG American theoretical physicist; Known as the "father of the atomic bomb"
Arthur Shipley British zoologist [58]
Harry Marshall Ward BA 1879; MA 1883; ScD 1892 British botanist, mycologist, and plant pathologist [59]

Sportspersons

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Name Degree Notability Ref
Paul Bircher British rower; Olympic silver medalist [60]
Richard Hutton British cricketer
Gilbert Jessop British cricketer [61]
Tony Lewis British cricketer and rugby player; Later sports journalist and president of the Marylebone Cricket Club [62]
Steve Palmer British footballer [63]
David Robertson British rugby union and golf player; Olympic bronze medalist [64]
Reggie Schwarz South African cricketer [65]
Swaranjit Singh Indian cricketer [66]
Kieran West British rower; Olympic gold medalist [67]
William Windham British rower [68]

Others

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Name Degree Notability Ref
George Augustus Auden [69]
Walter Besant Novelist and historian [70]
Frederic Chase [71]
John Wesley Hales [72]
John Scandrett Harford Artist, abolitionist, and High Sheriff of Cardiganshire [73]

References

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Citations

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  1. ^ "Anthony Caro". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-06-09.
  2. ^ "Tom de Freston". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-09-26.
  3. ^ "Phillip King". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-09-26.
  4. ^ "Ian Cheshire". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-03-28.
  5. ^ "Johanthan Galassi". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-09-26.
  6. ^ "David Ross Granger". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-09-26.
  7. ^ "Yusuf Hamied". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-09-26.
  8. ^ Sonwalkar, Prasun (2020-12-01). "Cambridge's chemistry department named after Indian scientist Yusuf Hamied". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
  9. ^ "Mike Lynch". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-03-28.
  10. ^ "Martin Sorrell". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-03-28.
  11. ^ Peile 1913, p. 587.
  12. ^ "Harinath De in memory and oblivion".
  13. ^ Peile 1910, p. 13.
  14. ^ "Jack Plumb (1911-2001)". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-03-28.
  15. ^ "Roy Porter". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-03-28.
  16. ^ Peile 1913, p. 525-526.
  17. ^ Peile 1913, p. 534.
  18. ^ Peile 1913, p. 712-713.
  19. ^ Peile 1913, p. 780.
  20. ^ Peile 1913, p. 225.
  21. ^ Peile 1910, p. 16.
  22. ^ Peile 1910, p. 23.
  23. ^ Peile 1913, p. 176-177.
  24. ^ Peile 1910, p. 93.
  25. ^ Peile 1913, p. 200-201.
  26. ^ Peile 1913, p. 267-268.
  27. ^ Peile 1913, p. 208-209.
  28. ^ Peile 1913, p. 654.
  29. ^ "Death of Canon Pope, at Harrogate. Well-known disciple of Newman passes away. His connections with Ilkley and Harrogate". Wharfedale & Airedale Observer. 10 November 1905. p. 8 cols 4–6. Retrieved 23 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  30. ^ Peile 1913, p. 612-613.
  31. ^ https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/27871
  32. ^ "James Chuter Ede (1882-1965)". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-03-28.
  33. ^ Peile 1913, p. 350.
  34. ^ Peile 1910, p. 122.
  35. ^ Peile 1913, p. 461.
  36. ^ Peile 1913, p. 286-287.
  37. ^ "John Healy (MP)". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-09-26.
  38. ^ Peile 1913, p. 238-239.
  39. ^ Peile 1913, p. 580.
  40. ^ "Heng Swee Keat". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-09-26.
  41. ^ "Lim Hng Kiang". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-12-25.
  42. ^ Peile 1913, p. 630-631.
  43. ^ Peile 1913, p. 900.
  44. ^ "Prince Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein".
  45. ^ Peile 1913, p. 770-771.
  46. ^ Peile 1913, p. 260-261.
  47. ^ Peile 1913, p. 526.
  48. ^ "Oliver Wright". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-09-26.
  49. ^ Peile 1913, p. 691.
  50. ^ Peile 1913, p. 677.
  51. ^ Peile 1913, p. 710.
  52. ^ Peile 1913, p. 685.
  53. ^ "John Clark". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-09-26.
  54. ^ Peile 1913, p. 428.
  55. ^ Peile 1913, p. 746.
  56. ^ "Duncan Haldane". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-09-26.
  57. ^ Peile 1913, p. 614-615.
  58. ^ Peile 1913, p. 673.
  59. ^ Peile 1913, p. 655.
  60. ^ "Paul Bircher". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-09-26.
  61. ^ Peile 1913, p. 807.
  62. ^ "Tony Lewis". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-03-28.
  63. ^ "Steve Palmer". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-03-28.
  64. ^ Peile 1913, p. 754.
  65. ^ Peile 1913, p. 783.
  66. ^ "Swaranjit Singh". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-09-26.
  67. ^ "Kieran West". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-03-28.
  68. ^ "William "Bill" Windham". Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni. Archived from the original on 2023-12-25.
  69. ^ Peile 1913, p. 760.
  70. ^ Peile 1913, p. 540.
  71. ^ Peile 1913, p. 619.
  72. ^ Peile 1913, p. 541-542.
  73. ^ Peile 1913, p. 402.

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