The following is a list of alumni of Clare College, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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  Kwame Anthony Appiah
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  Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
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  Sabine Baring-Gould
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  Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• 
  Hugh Latimer
• 
  Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
• 
  John Rutter
• 
  Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney
• 
  William Whiston
• 
  Andrew Wiles

Former students

Academics

Sir David Attenborough, naturalist and broadcaster

Tim Hunt, biochemist

Robert Mair, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge

• Anthony Appiah, philosopher
• Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, botanist and natural scientist, Master of the College 1959–67, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1967–69, founded Clare Hall, Cambridge
• Sir David Attenborough, naturalist
• John Baker, Baron Baker, scientist and engineer, Professor of Mechanical Sciences (latterly renamed Professor of Engineering) at the University of Cambridge, 1943–70
• David Mowbray Balme, classicist, First principal of the University College of the Gold Coast and later University of Ghana 1948 - 57, Professor of Classics, Queen Mary University of London
• Amiya Charan Banerjee, mathematician, Vice-Chancellor of Allahabad University 1953–55
• Meredith Belbin, management theorist
• Jim Bennett, historian of science, museum curator in Cambridge and Oxford
• Roger Blench, anthropologist and linguist
• Sir John Boyd, Master of Churchill College, Cambridge 1996–2006
• David Cannadine, historian
• Hector Munro Chadwick, philologist and historian, Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge 1912–41
• Mary Collins, immunologist
• Ralph Cudworth, philosopher and theologian, leader of the Cambridge Platonists, Master of the College 1644–50, Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge 1645–88
• David Dane, virologist
• Morris Dickstein, American cultural historian
• Daryl Dixon, economic writer and superannuation expert
• Julian Downward, cancer researcher
• Sir Ernest De Silva, Sri Lankan philanthropist
• Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, historian of the Tudor period, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge 1983–88
• Eric Fawcett, physicist
• David Finney, statistician
• Steve Fuller, American sociologist, professor at the University of Warwick
• Henry Louis Gates, African-American academic
• Sir Harry Godwin, botanist and ecologist, founded the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research in the University of Cambridge
• Trisha Greenhalgh, professor of primary health care at the University of Oxford^[1]
• John Guy, leading Tudor historian and Fellow of the college
• Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, classicist, historian and archaeologist
• James Rendel Harris, biblical scholar, theologian, palaeographer and mathematician
• Neil Harris, cultural historian at the University of Chicago, Guggenheim Fellow
• Thomas McKenny Hughes, Woodwardian Professor of Geology at the University of Cambridge 1873–1917
• Tim Hunt, biochemist
• Arthur Jaffe, mathematician and physicist, Professor at Harvard University
• Oscar Kempthorne, Distinguished Professor of Science and Humanities at Iowa State University, statistician and geneticist
• Geoffrey Kirk, 35th Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge
• Frances Kirwan, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University
• Robert Mair, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge
• Paul Mellon, benefactor
• The Revd. Canon Arthur Peacocke, scientist and theologian, Dean of the College 1973–84
• Sir Brian Pippard, first President of Clare Hall, Cambridge, Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge 1971–84
• James Raven, Professor of History at the University of Essex
• John D. Rosenberg, professor of English at Columbia University
• George Ruggle, early seventeenth-century scholar, philologist and playwright
• Sir Nicholas John Shackleton FRS, geologist, Professor at the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research and the Department of Earth Sciences in the University of Cambridge
• Cecil Sharp, folklorist and ethnographer
• Rupert Sheldrake, scientist
• T. C. Smout, historian
• Harold McCarter Taylor, architectural historian
• Richard Taylor, Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University
• Sir Mark Walport, director of Wellcome Trust
• James D. Watson, double helix discoverer and human genome advocate
• Abraham Whelock, seventeenth-century scholar, philologist and Arabist
• William Whiston, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge 1702–11, theologian
• Andrew Wiles, mathematician who proved Fermat's Last Theorem
• Lauren Winner, professor of theology at Duke University
• Simon Wren-Lewis, Professor of Economics at Oxford

See also

• List of Masters of Clare College, Cambridge

References