EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Comprised of 31 independent, self-governing colleges: Lucy Cavendish College, Christ's College, Churchill College, Clare College, Clare Hall, Corpus Christi College, Darwin College, Downing College, Murray Edwards College (a/k/a New Hall), Emmanuel College, Fitzwilliam College, Girton College, Gonville & Caius College, Homerton College, Hughes Hall, Jesus College, King's College, Magdalene College, Newnham College, Pembroke College, Peterhouse, Queens' College, Robinson College, St Catharine's College, St Edmund's College, St John's College, Selwyn College, Sidney Sussex College, Trinity College, Trinity Hall, and Wolfson College.

Location:
Cambridge, England

Founding Date:
1209 AD

Enrollment:
16,000

Official Website:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Edwin A. Abbott	Author	20-Dec-1838	12-Oct-1926	Flatland
Peter Ackroyd	Author	5-Oct-1949		The Great Fire of London
Douglas Adams	Author	11-Mar-1952	11-May-2001	Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
John Couch Adams	Astronomer	5-Jun-1819	21-Jan-1892	Discovered planet Neptune
Edgar Adrian	Scientist	30-Nov-1889	4-Aug-1977	Electricity within nerve cells
Liaquat Ahamed	Economist	14-Nov-1952		Lords of Finance
George Biddell Airy	Astronomer	27-Jul-1801	2-Jan-1892	British Astronomer Royal
Mark Akenside	Poet	9-Nov-1721	23-Jun-1770	The Pleasures of the Imagination
Christopher Alexander	Architect	4-Oct-1936		A Pattern Language, The Nature of Order
Gordon W. Allport	Psychologist	11-Nov-1897	9-Oct-1967	Personality: A Psychological Interpretation
Sidney Altman	Chemist	7-May-1939		Proved enzyme role of RNA
Jon Amiel	Film Director	20-May-1948		Entrapment
Mulk Raj Anand	Novelist	22-Dec-1905	28-Sep-2004	Untouchable
Philip W. Anderson	Physicist	13-Dec-1923		Solid state physics
Ross Anderson	Scholar	15-Sep-1956		Why Cryptosystems Fail
Kwame Anthony Appiah	Philosopher	8-May-1954		The Ethics of Identity
Edward Victor Appleton	Physicist	6-Sep-1892	21-Apr-1965	Ionosphere, shortwave radio
Michael Apted	Film Director	10-Feb-1941		Gorillas in the Mist
John Arden	Playwright	26-Oct-1930		Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
David Armitage	Historian	1965		The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
Daniel I. Arnon	Biologist	14-Nov-1910	20-Dec-1994	Photophosphorylation
Roger Ascham	Scholar	1515	30-Dec-1568	The Scholemaster
Francis W. Aston	Chemist	1-Sep-1877	20-Nov-1945	Invented the mass spectograph
Michael Atiyah	Mathematician	22-Apr-1929		Atiyah-Singer index theorem
David Attenborough	Naturalist	8-May-1926		Life on Earth
Richard Ayoade	Actor	12-Jun-1977		Dean Learner on Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Hertha Ayrton	Physicist	28-Apr-1854	26-Aug-1923	Electric arc
Charles Babbage	Mathematician	26-Dec-1791	18-Oct-1871	Inventor of the Difference Engine
Francis Bacon	Philosopher	22-Jan-1561	9-Apr-1626	Novum Organum
Nathaniel Bacon	Politician	2-Jan-1647	26-Oct-1676	Bacon's Rebellion
Martin N. Baily	Economist	1945		Council of Economic Advisers, 1995-96, 1999-2001
Deborah Baker	Author	28-Mar-1959		In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding
Stanley Baldwin	Head of State	3-Aug-1867	14-Dec-1947	UK Prime Minister three times
Arthur Balfour	Head of State	25-Jul-1848	19-Mar-1930	UK Prime Minister, 1902-05
John Ball	Naturalist	20-Aug-1818	21-Oct-1889	Irish Alpinist
J. G. Ballard	Author	18-Nov-1930	19-Apr-2009	Empire of the Sun, Crash
Jamie Bamber	Actor	3-Apr-1973		Battlestar Galactica
Charles Glover Barkla	Physicist	7-Jun-1877	23-Oct-1944	X-ray scattering
Robert Bartlett	Historian	27-Nov-1950		The Making of Europe
Gregory Bateson	Anthropologist	9-May-1904	4-Jul-1980	Steps to an Ecology of Mind
William Bateson	Biologist	8-Aug-1861	8-Feb-1926	Founder of genetics
Jacob D. Beam	Diplomat	24-Mar-1908	16-Aug-1993	US Ambassador to the USSR, 1969-73
R. Meredith Belbin	Educator	1926		Father of team-role theory
David Bell	Business	?		CEO of Financial Times Group, 1993-2005
Michael Bentley	Historian	8-Dec-1948		The Liberal Mind, 1914-1929
Richard Bentley	Critic	27-Jan-1662	14-Jul-1742	Reformed classical scholarship
J. D. Bernal	Physicist	10-May-1901	15-Sep-1971	X-ray crystallography
John Berryman	Poet	25-Oct-1914	7-Jan-1972	Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
Sir Walter Besant	Author	14-Aug-1836	9-Jun-1901	All Sorts and Conditions of Men
John Biffen	Politician	3-Nov-1930	14-Aug-2007	Leader, House of Commons, 1982-87
Thomas Bilney	Religion	c. 1495	19-Aug-1531	English martyr, influenced Latimer
David Blackbourn	Historian	1-Nov-1949		Populists and Patricians
Elizabeth H. Blackburn	Scientist	26-Nov-1948		Co-Discoverer of telomerase
Patrick M. S. Blackett	Physicist	18-Nov-1897	13-Jul-1974	Cosmic radiation, continental drift
Arthur Bliss	Composer	2-Aug-1891	28-Mar-1975	Morning Heroes
Hans Blix	Government	28-Jun-1928		Weapons inspector before Iraq War
Anthony Blunt	Art Historian	26-Sep-1907	26-Mar-1983	Art historian, Soviet spy
Eavan Boland	Poet	24-Sep-1944		In a Time of Violence
John G. Bolton	Astronomer	5-Jun-1922	6-Jul-1993	First Director of Parkes Observatory
Hugh Bonneville	Actor	10-Nov-1963		Downton Abbey
Max Born	Physicist	11-Dec-1882	5-Jan-1970	Pioneer of quantum mechanics
J. C. Bose	Botanist	30-Nov-1858	23-Nov-1937	Plant physiology
John Bossy	Historian	30-Apr-1933		Christianity in the West
Steve Bourne	Computer Programmer	?		/bin/sh
David F. Bradford	Economist	8-Jan-1939	22-Feb-2005	Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93
Brendan Bradshaw	Historian	28-May-1937		And So Began the Irish Nation
Lawrence Bragg	Physicist	31-Mar-1890	1-Jul-1971	Bragg's Law of diffraction
William Bragg	Physicist	2-Jul-1862	12-Mar-1942	Analyzed crystal structures
E. R. Braithwaite	Novelist	27-Jun-1912		To Sir, with Love
John Brewer	Historian	22-Mar-1947		The Sinews of Power
William Bridgeman	Politician	31-Dec-1864	14-Aug-1935	UK Home Secretary, 1922-24
Leon Brittan	Politician	25-Sep-1939	21-Jan-2015	UK Home Secretary, 1983-85
Eleanor Bron	Actor	14-Mar-1934		A Touch of Love
Lyndon Brook	Actor	10-Apr-1926	9-Jan-2004	Reach for the Sky
Rupert Brooke	Poet	3-Aug-1887	23-Apr-1915	1914 and Other Poems
Ernest W. Brown	Astronomer	29-Nov-1866	22-Jul-1938	Tables of the Motion of the Moon
John Browne	Business	20-Feb-1948		CEO of British Petroleum, 1995-2007
Stanley Bruce	Head of State	15-Apr-1883	25-Aug-1967	Prime Minister of Australia, 1923-29
John Bull	Composer	c. 1562	12-Mar-1628	English composer and organist
Edward Bullard	Physicist	21-Sep-1907	3-Apr-1980	Continental drift, magnetic fields
Claus von Bulow	Socialite	11-Aug-1926		Allegedly tried to kill wife Sunny
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton	Novelist	25-May-1803	18-Jan-1873	The Last Days of Pompeii
Jocelyn Bell Burnell	Astronomer	15-Jul-1943		Co-Discoverer of pulsars
Thomas Burnet	Religion	1635	27-Sep-1715	Telluris Tehoria Sacra
Andrew Burnham	Politician	7-Jan-1970		British MP, Leigh
Janet Burroway	Novelist	21-Sep-1936		The Dancer from the Dance
Charles W. Burson	Attorney	c. 1944		Al Gore's Chief of Staff, 1999-2001
Rab Butler	Politician	9-Dec-1902	8-Mar-1982	UK Foreign Secretary, 1963-64
Samuel Butler	Author	4-Dec-1835	18-Jun-1902	Erewheon
Samuel Butler	Scholar	30-Jan-1774	4-Dec-1839	Headmaster of Shrewsbury School
Herbert Butterfield	Historian	7-Oct-1900	20-Jul-1979	The Whig Interpretation of History
Stewart Butterfield	Business	1973		Co-Founder of Flickr
A. S. Byatt	Critic	24-Aug-1936		Possession
Lord Byron	Poet	22-Jan-1788	19-Apr-1824	English romantic poet
Vincent Cable	Politician	9-May-1943		British MP, Twickenham
José A. Cabranes	Judge	22-Dec-1940		2nd Circuit Court of Appeals
John Caius	Doctor	6-Oct-1510	29-Jul-1573	Second founder of Gonville and Caius College
Jonathan Cake	Actor	31-Aug-1967		The One and Only
A. E. Campbell	Historian	12-May-1929	2002	Great Britain and the United States
Henry Campbell-Bannerman	Head of State	7-Sep-1836	22-Apr-1908	UK Prime Minister, 1905-08
Thomas Campion	Composer	12-Feb-1567	1-Mar-1620	English musical poet, Bookes of Ayres
David Cannadine	Historian	7-Sep-1950		Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
E. H. Carr	Historian	28-Jun-1892	3-Nov-1982	The Twenty Years Crisis, 1919-1939
Robert Carr	Politician	11-Nov-1916	17-Feb-2012	UK Home Secretary, 1972-74
Thomas Cartwright	Religion	c. 1535	27-Dec-1603	English Puritan divine
Edmund Castell	Lexicographer	1606	1685	Lexicon Heptaglotton
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh	Politician	18-Jun-1769	12-Aug-1822	Architected Napoleon's defeat
James McKeen Cattell	Psychologist	24-May-1860	20-Jan-1944	Academic freedom
Paul Cavanagh	Actor	8-Dec-1888	15-Mar-1964	The Scarlet Claw
Andrew Cavendish	Aristocrat	2-Jan-1920	3-May-2004	11th Duke of Devonshire
Henry Cavendish	Chemist	10-Oct-1731	24-Feb-1810	Discovered hydrogen
William Cecil	Government	13-Sep-1520	5-Aug-1598	Closest advisor to Elizabeth I
David Cesarani	Historian	13-Nov-1956	25-Oct-2015	Eichmann: His Life and Crimes
Lord Chadlington	Business	?		CEO of Huntsworth
James Chadwick	Physicist	20-Oct-1891	24-Jul-1974	Discovered the neutron
Ernst B. Chain	Scientist	19-Jun-1906	12-Aug-1979	Isolated penicillin
Austen Chamberlain	Politician	16-Oct-1863	16-Mar-1937	British pol, Nobel Prize recipient
Alexander Chancellor	Editor	4-Jan-1940		Editor of The Spectator, 1975-84
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	Astronomer	19-Oct-1910	21-Aug-1995	Evolutionary stages of stars
Ha-Joon Chang	Economist	7-Oct-1963		Kicking Away the Ladder
Graham Chapman	Comic	8-Jan-1941	4-Oct-1989	Monty Python's King Arthur
Sydney Chapman	Mathematician	29-Jan-1888	16-Jun-1970	Geomagnetism
Prince Charles	Royalty	14-Nov-1948		Heir to the throne of Britain
Leslie Charteris	Novelist	12-May-1907	15-Apr-1993	Created Simon Templar
Ron Chernow	Author	3-Mar-1949		The Warburgs and Alexander Hamilton
John Chisholm	Business	c. 1946		Chairman of QinetiQ
Charles Chree	Astronomer	5-May-1860	12-Aug-1928	Geomagnetic phenomena
Charles Churchill	Poet	1731	4-Nov-1764	Rosciad
A. J. Clark	Scientist	19-Aug-1885	30-Jul-1941	Drug responses
J. C. D. Clark	Historian	28-Feb-1951		English Society, 1688-1832
Charles Clarke	Politician	21-Sep-1950		UK Home Secretary, 2004-06
David L. Clarke	Archaeologist	3-Nov-1937	27-Jun-1976	Analytical Archaeology
John Clarke	Physicist	10-Feb-1942		Superconducting quantum interference
Kenneth Clarke	Politician	2-Jul-1940		Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1993-97
Samuel Clarke	Philosopher	11-Oct-1675	17-May-1729	Newtonian theologian
John Cleese	Comic	27-Oct-1939		Monty Python
Nick Clegg	Politician	7-Jan-1967		Leader of the Liberal Democrats
Paul Clement	Government	24-Jun-1966		US Solicitor General, 2005-08
John Cockcroft	Physicist	27-May-1897	18-Sep-1967	Split the atom
Christopher Cockerell	Inventor	4-Jun-1910	1-Jun-1999	Hovercraft
Jonathan Coe	Novelist	19-Aug-1961		What a Carve Up!
Sacha Baron Cohen	Comic	13-Oct-1971		Boyakasha! Respec
Nicholas Coleridge	Business	1957		Managing Director, Condé Nast
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Poet	21-Oct-1772	25-Jul-1834	Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Linda Colley	Historian	13-Sep-1949		Britons: Forging the Nation
Anthony Collins	Philosopher	21-Jun-1676	13-Dec-1729	A Discourse on Freethinking
Olivia Colman	Actor	30-Jan-1974		Sophie Chapman on Peep Show
Alex Comfort	Doctor	10-Feb-1920	26-Mar-2000	The Joy of Sex
Arthur H. Compton	Physicist	10-Sep-1892	15-Mar-1962	Discovered the Compton Effect
John Conway	Mathematician	26-Dec-1937		Game of Life
Peter Cook	Comic	19-Nov-1937	9-Jan-1995	Bedazzled
Alistair Cooke	Journalist	20-Nov-1908	29-Mar-2004	Alistair Cooke's America
Stuart Corbridge	Geographer	11-Apr-1957		Debt and Development
Allan M. Cormack	Physicist	23-Feb-1924	7-May-1998	Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans)
E. J. H. Corner	Botanist	12-Jan-1906	14-Sep-1996	Durian theory
Charles Cornwallis	Military	31-Dec-1738	5-Oct-1805	Surrendered at Yorktown
John Costello	Author	3-May-1943	26-Aug-1995	The Pacific War
John Cotton	Religion	4-Dec-1585	23-Dec-1652	First Church of Boston
Robert Cotton	Scholar	22-Jan-1571	6-May-1631	Cottonian Library
Christian Coulson	Actor	3-Oct-1978		Tom Riddle in Harry Potter
Jo Cox	Politician	22-Jun-1974	16-Jun-2016	British MP, Batley and Spen, assassinated
Gregory B. Craig	Attorney	4-Mar-1945		White House Counsel, 2009
Thomas Cranmer	Religion	2-Jul-1489	21-Mar-1556	First Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury
F. Marion Crawford	Novelist	2-Aug-1854	9-Apr-1909	Whosoever Shall Offend
Henry Page Croft	Politician	22-Jun-1881	7-Dec-1947	British Under-Secretary of War, 1940-45
Oliver Cromwell	Government	25-Apr-1599	3-Sep-1658	Lord Protector of England 1653-58
Aleister Crowley	Religion	12-Oct-1875	1-Dec-1947	Wickedest man in the world
Roger Crowley	Historian	28-Jun-1951		Empires of the Sea
Ralph Cudworth	Philosopher	1617	26-Jun-1688	Intellectual System of the Universe
John Culver	Politician	8-Aug-1932		US Senator from Iowa, 1974-81
Barry Cunliffe	Archaeologist	10-Dec-1939		Iron Age Communities in Britain
Tim Curry	Actor	19-Apr-1946		Frank N. Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show
Sir Simonds D'Ewes	Curator	18-Dec-1602	18-Apr-1650	Journals of all the Parliaments
Henry Dale	Scientist	9-Jun-1875	23-Jul-1968	Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter
Richard Dalitz	Physicist	28-Feb-1925	13-Jan-2006	Dalitz pairs and Dalitz plots
Charles Darwin	Naturalist	12-Feb-1809	19-Apr-1882	Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection
Erasmus Darwin	Naturalist	12-Dec-1731	18-Apr-1802	English naturalist, very bad poet
George Darwin	Astronomer	9-Jul-1845	7-Dec-1912	Evolution of the Sun-Earth-Moon system
Clement Davies	Politician	19-Feb-1884	23-Mar-1962	Leader of the UK Liberal Party, 1945-56
Paul Davies	Physicist	22-Apr-1946		The Mind of God
Andrew Davis	Conductor	2-Feb-1944		Music Director, Lyric Opera of Chicago
Richard Dawes	Scholar	1708	21-Mar-1766	Miscellanea Critica
John Day	Playwright	1574	c. 1640	The Parliament of Bees
Alain de Botton	Author	20-Dec-1969		The Architecture of Happiness
Aubrey de Grey	Biologist	20-Apr-1963		Researcher of regenerative medicine
Augustus De Morgan	Mathematician	27-Jun-1806	18-Mar-1871	De Morgan's Laws
John Dennis	Critic	1657	6-Jan-1734	The Usefulness of the Stage
Delia Derbyshire	Electronic Musician	5-May-1937	3-Jul-2001	Constructed the Doctor Who theme
Jared Diamond	Scientist	10-Sep-1937		Guns, Germs and Steel
Lincoln Diaz-Balart	Politician	13-Aug-1954		Congressman from Florida, 1993-2011
Paul Dirac	Physicist	8-Aug-1902	20-Oct-1984	The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Avinash K. Dixit	Economist	6-Aug-1944		Investment Under Uncertainty
Ray Milton Dolby	Inventor	18-Jan-1933	12-Sep-2013	Inventor of Dolby stereo
John Donne	Poet	1572	31-Mar-1631	Anniversaries
Margaret Drabble	Novelist	5-Jun-1939		The Millstone
Nick Drake	Singer/Songwriter	19-Jun-1948	25-Nov-1974	Pink Moon
John Dryden	Poet	19-Aug-1631	1-May-1700	Absalom and Achitophel
Will Durant	Historian	5-Nov-1885	7-Nov-1981	The Story of Civilization
Frank W. Dyson	Astronomer	8-Jan-1868	25-May-1939	Six pips on the BBC
Freeman Dyson	Physicist	15-Dec-1923		Theoretical physicist at Institute for Advanced Study
Terry Eagleton	Critic	22-Feb-1943		Literary Theory: An Introduction
Abba Eban	Government	2-Feb-1915	17-Nov-2002	Foreign Minister of Israel, 1966-74
Myron Ebell	Activist	1953		Global Warming cynic
Richard Eberhart	Poet	5-Apr-1904	9-Jun-2005	Collected Poems
Arthur Eddington	Astronomer	28-Dec-1882	22-Nov-1944	Eddington luminosity
James Chuter Ede	Politician	11-Sep-1882	11-Nov-1965	UK Home Secretary, 1945-51
King Edward VII	Royalty	9-Nov-1841	6-May-1910	King of England, 1901-1910
Prince Edward	Royalty	10-Mar-1964		The Earl of Wessex
Robert G. Edwards	Scientist	27-Sep-1925	10-Apr-2013	In vitro fertilization
Jennifer Egan	Novelist	6-Sep-1962		A Visit from the Goon Squad
Herb Elliott	Track and Field	25-Feb-1938		Middle distance runner
Daniel Ellsberg	Government	7-Apr-1931		Pentagon Papers source
Mark Elvin	Historian	18-Aug-1938		The Pattern of the Chinese Past
William Empson	Critic	27-Sep-1906	15-Apr-1984	Seven Types of Ambiguity
Martin Evans	Scientist	1-Jan-1941		Embryonic stem cells
Thomas E. Everhart	Physicist	15-Feb-1932		President of CalTech, 1987-97
Rona Fairhead	Business	c. 1962		CEO of Financial Times Group
Richard Fanshawe	Poet	1608	16-Jun-1666	Translator of Camőes
Julian Fellowes	Actor	17-Aug-1949		Shadowlands
Niall Ferguson	Historian	18-Apr-1964		The House of Rothschild
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.	Government	28-Oct-1951		CEO of TIAA-CREF
Marshall Field III	Business	28-Sep-1893	8-Nov-1956	Founder of the Chicago Sun-Times
Orlando Figes	Historian	20-Nov-1959		A People's Tragedy
Antony Fisher	Activist	1915	Jul-1988	Libertarian think-tank founder
John Fisher	Religion	19-Oct-1469	22-Jun-1535	Saint John Fisher, executed by Henry VIII
Ronald Fisher	Mathematician	17-Feb-1890	29-Jul-1962	Analysis of variance and covariance
John Flamsteed	Astronomer	19-Aug-1646	31-Dec-1719	Founder of Greenwich Observatory
John Ambrose Fleming	Engineer	29-Nov-1849	19-Apr-1945	Invented the vacuum tube
John Fletcher	Playwright	1579	29-Aug-1625	Collaborator with Francis Beaumont
Howard Florey	Scientist	24-Sep-1898	21-Feb-1968	Isolated penicillin
Mary Parker Follett	Business	3-Sep-1868	18-Dec-1933	Community centers and conflict resolution
Sarah Foot	Historian	23-Feb-1961		Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England
Trent Ford	Actor	16-Jan-1979		How to Deal
E. M. Forster	Author	1-Jan-1879	7-Jun-1970	Howards End
John Forster	Author	2-Apr-1812	2-Feb-1876	Life of Charles Dickens
Richard Fortey	Paleontologist	1946		Trilobites and graptolites
Dian Fossey	Anthropologist	16-Jan-1932	26-Dec-1985	Gorillas in the Mist
Norman Fowler	Politician	2-Feb-1938		Former MP, now Baron Fowler
William A. Fowler	Astronomer	9-Aug-1911	14-Mar-1995	Element generation within stars
Joseph S. Francisco	Chemist	1955		Atmospheric chemist
Rosalind Franklin	Chemist	25-Jul-1920	16-Apr-1958	Photographed DNA's structure
Peter Fraser	Politician	29-May-1945	23-Jun-2013	Baron Fraser of Carmyllie
Sir James Frazer	Anthropologist	1-Jan-1854	7-May-1941	The Golden Bough
Fred Frith	Guitarist	2-Feb-1949		Avant garde rock guitarist
David Frost	Journalist	7-Apr-1939	31-Aug-2013	BBC's Breakfast with Frost
Stephen Fry	Actor	24-Aug-1957		Jeeves and Wooster
John H. Gaddum	Scientist	31-Mar-1900	30-Jun-1965	Drug antagonism
James K. Galbraith	Scholar	29-Jan-1952		Economics Professor at UT-Austin
Francis Galton	Anthropologist	16-Feb-1822	17-Jan-1911	Word Association Test
Stephen Gardiner	Religion	c. 1493	12-Nov-1555	English bishop, statesman
David J. Garrow	Historian	11-May-1953		Bearing the Cross
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.	Author	16-Sep-1950		The Signifying Monkey
Michael Geist	Blogger	11-Jul-1968		Internet law professor, University of Ottawa
Leo Genn	Actor	9-Aug-1905	26-Jan-1978	Quo Vadis
Gwilym Lloyd George	Politician	4-Dec-1894	14-Feb-1967	UK Home Secretary, 1954-57
Ivar Giaever	Physicist	5-Apr-1929		Tunneling through superconductors
Anthony Giddens	Sociologist	18-Jan-1938		New Rules of Sociological Method
Walter Gilbert	Chemist	21-Mar-1932		Sequencing techniques for DNA
William Gilbert	Physicist	24-May-1544	10-Dec-1603	De Magnete
Anton Gill	Author	22-Oct-1948		The Journey Back From Hell
John Gilmour	Politician	27-May-1876	30-Mar-1940	UK Home Secretary, 1932-35
Joscelyn Godwin	Historian	16-Jan-1945		Historian of the esoteric
Thomas Gold	Scientist	22-May-1920	22-Jun-2004	Certain that oil is not a fossil fuel
Maurice Goldhaber	Physicist	18-Apr-1911	11-May-2011	Neutrons
Ralph E. Gomory	Business	c. 1938		Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
George Peabody Gooch	Historian	21-Oct-1873	31-Aug-1968	English Democratic Ideas in the 17th Century
Jane Goodall	Naturalist	3-Apr-1934		Primate researcher
Thomas Gray	Poet	26-Dec-1716	30-Jul-1771	An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
Stephen Greenblatt	Critic	7-Nov-1943		The Swerve
Robert Greene	Playwright	Jul-1558	3-Sep-1592	Friar Bacon
Meg Greenfield	Journalist	27-Dec-1930	13-May-1999	The Washington Post
Paul Greengard	Scientist	11-Dec-1925		Signal transduction in the nervous system
Paul Greengrass	Film Director	13-Aug-1955		The Bourne Supremacy
Germaine Greer	Activist	29-Jan-1939		Feminism Diva
Richard Gregory	Psychologist	24-Jul-1923	17-May-2010	Optical illusions and "hands-on" science
Sir Thomas Gresham	Business	1518	21-Nov-1579	Founder of Gresham College
Nehemiah Grew	Botanist	26-Sep-1641	25-Mar-1712	Anatomy of Plants
Ernest Howard Griffiths	Physicist	15-Jun-1851	3-Mar-1932	The Thermal Measurement of Energy
Nicholas Grimald	Poet	1519	1559	Songes and Sonettes
John Guillermin	Film Director	11-Nov-1925	27-Sep-2015	The Bridge at Remagen
John Gummer	Politician	26-Nov-1939		British MP, Suffolk Coastal
Thom Gunn	Poet	29-Aug-1929	25-Apr-2004	The Man with Night Sweats
Ian Hacking	Philosopher	18-Feb-1936		The Taming of Chance
Christopher Haigh	Historian	28-Aug-1944		English Reformations
Stephen Hales	Scientist	7-Sep-1677	4-Jan-1761	Statical Essays
Edward Hall	Historian	c. 1495	1547	English chronicler
Joseph Hall	Author	1-Jul-1574	8-Sep-1656	Virgidemiarum
Peter Hall	Educator	19-Mar-1932		Cities in Civilization
Peter Hall	Theater Director	22-Nov-1930		Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Rebecca Hall	Actor	3-May-1982		Vicky Cristina Barcelona
John Halliday	Actor	14-Sep-1880	17-Oct-1947	The Philadelphia Story
Robert Hamer	Film Director	31-Mar-1911	4-Dec-1963	Kind Hearts and Coronets
Nigel Hamilton	Author	16-Feb-1944		JFK: Reckless Youth
G. H. Hardy	Mathematician	7-Feb-1877	1-Dec-1947	A Mathematician's Apology
David Hare	Playwright	5-Jun-1947		Racing Demon
Sir John Harington	Author	1561	20-Nov-1612	The Metamorphosis of Ajax
Joanne Harris	Novelist	3-Jul-1964		Chocolat
Naomie Harris	Actor	6-Sep-1976		Pirates of the Caribbean
Robert Harris	Author	7-Mar-1957		Fatherland
Roy Harrod	Economist	13-Feb-1900	9-Mar-1978	Towards a Dynamic Economics
Basil Liddell Hart	Military	31-Oct-1895	29-Jan-1970	Military strategist
David Hartley	Philosopher	8-Aug-1705	28-Aug-1757	Theory of associationism
Samuel Hartlib	Scholar	c. 1600	c. 1662	Influential German-English man of letters
John Harvard	Religion	26-Nov-1607	14-Sep-1638	Bequest to Harvard College
William Harvey	Doctor	1-Apr-1578	3-Jun-1657	Discovered circulation of blood
Martin Harwit	Astronomer	9-Mar-1931		Helium-cooled rockets and infrared spectroscopy
Eric A. Havelock	Scholar	3-Jun-1903	4-Apr-1988	Preface to Plato
Stephen Hawking	Physicist	8-Jan-1942		Wheelchair-bound physicist
Norman G. Heatley	Scientist	10-Jan-1911	5-Jan-2004	Isolated penicillin
Tony Hendra	Comic	1941		National Lampoon
George Herbert	Poet	3-Apr-1593	1-Mar-1633	The Temple
Robert Herrick	Poet	1591	Oct-1674	Hesperides
John Herschel	Astronomer	7-Mar-1792	11-May-1871	Discovered many moons of Saturn
John Hersey	Novelist	17-Jun-1914	24-Mar-1993	A Bell for Adano
Chaim Herzog	Head of State	17-Sep-1918	17-Apr-1997	President of Israel, 1983-93
Antony Hewish	Astronomer	11-May-1924		Co-Discoverer of pulsars
John R. Hicks	Economist	8-Apr-1904	20-May-1989	Value and Capital
Tom Hiddleston	Actor	9-Feb-1981		Thor
Raymond Hide	Physicist	17-May-1929		Earth's rotation
Archibald V. Hill	Scientist	26-Sep-1886	3-Jun-1977	Studied muscles and nerves
Carole Hillenbrand	Historian	1943		The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives
James Hilton	Novelist	9-Sep-1900	20-Dec-1954	Goodbye, Mr. Chips
F. H. Hinsley	Historian	26-Nov-1918	16-Feb-1998	Cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park
Peter B. Hirsch	Scientist	16-Jan-1925		Electron microscopy in metallurgy
Benjamin Hoadly	Religion	14-Nov-1676	17-Apr-1761	Anglican Bishop and controversialist
Eric Hobsbawm	Historian	9-Jun-1917	1-Oct-2012	The Age of Revolution
Alan L. Hodgkin	Scientist	5-Feb-1914	20-Dec-1998	Electrical impulses in nerves
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin	Chemist	12-May-1910	29-Jul-1994	Determined structure of Vitamin B12
William Holder	Musicologist	1616	24-Jan-1698	Music theorist
Tom Holland	Author	5-Jan-1968		Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Tom Hollander	Actor	25-Aug-1967		Gosford Park
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Author	29-Aug-1809	7-Oct-1894	The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Matthew Holness	Comic	?		Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Thomas Hooker	Religion	7-Jul-1586	7-Jul-1647	American colonial Puritan leader
Geoff Hoon	Politician	6-Dec-1953		UK Minister of Defence, 1999-2005
Frederick Hopkins	Scientist	20-Jun-1861	16-May-1947	Discovered vitamins
John Hopkinson	Engineer	27-Jul-1849	27-Aug-1898	English electrical engineer
Nick Hornby	Author	17-Apr-1957		High Fidelity
Alistair Horne	Historian	9-Nov-1925		Seven Ages of Paris
Jeremiah Horrocks	Astronomer	1619	3-Jan-1641	Observed transit of Venus
Outerbridge Horsey	Diplomat	1-Oct-1910	18-Aug-1983	US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1963-66
Edward Horsman	Politician	1807	30-Nov-1876	Scottish parliamentarian
Fenton J. A. Hort	Religion	23-Apr-1828	30-Nov-1892	Translator of the New Testament
Hendrik S. Houthakker	Economist	31-Dec-1924	15-Apr-2008	Council of Economic Advisers, 1969-71
Michael Howard	Politician	7-Jul-1941		UK Home Secretary, 1993-97
Geoffrey Howe	Politician	20-Dec-1926	9-Oct-2015	UK Foreign Secretary, 1983-89
John Howe	Religion	17-May-1630	2-Apr-1706	The Living Temple
David Howell	Politician	18-Jan-1936		Former MP, Guildford
Fred Hoyle	Astronomer	24-Jun-1915	20-Aug-2001	Opposed the Big Bang but named it
Arianna Huffington	Columnist	15-Jul-1950		The Huffington Post
Ted Hughes	Poet	16-Aug-1930	28-Oct-1998	Crow
T. E. Hulme	Poet	16-Sep-1883	28-Sep-1917	Modernist poet and critic
Tim Hunt	Scientist	19-Feb-1943		Regulators of cell cycle
Douglas Hurd	Politician	8-Mar-1930		Former UK Home, Foreign Secretary
Waris Hussein	Film Director	9-Dec-1938		Melody
Andrew F. Huxley	Scientist	22-Nov-1917	30-May-2012	Electrical impulses in nerves
Michael Ignatieff	Author	12-May-1947		Blood and Belonging
David Ignatius	Columnist	1950		Washington Post op-ed columnist
Andy Inglis	Business	c. 1960		BP's head of exploration & production, 2007-10
Christopher Isherwood	Author	26-Aug-1904	4-Jan-1986	The Berlin Stories
Derek Jacobi	Actor	22-Oct-1938		Claudius on I, Claudius
M. R. James	Author	1-Aug-1862	12-Jun-1936	Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Lisa Jardine	Historian	12-Apr-1944	25-Oct-2015	Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse
James H. Jeans	Astronomer	11-Sep-1877	16-Sep-1946	Continuous creation theory
Patrick Jenkin	Politician	7-Sep-1926		Former MP, Wanstead and Woodford
David L. Johnston	Educator	c. 1942		President, University of Waterloo
G. Lewis Jones	Diplomat	18-May-1907	13-Nov-1971	US Ambassador to Tunisia, 1956-59
Griff Rhys Jones	Actor	6-Nov-1953		Alas Smith & Jones
Simon Jones	Actor	27-Jul-1950		Arthur Dent on radio Hitchhiker's Guide
Ben Jonson	Playwright	11-Jun-1572	6-Aug-1637	Volpone
Brian D. Josephson	Physicist	4-Jan-1940		Discovered the Josephson Effect
Tony Judt	Historian	2-Jan-1948	6-Aug-2010	Postwar
Nicholas Kaldor	Economist	12-May-1908	30-Sep-1986	An Expenditure Tax
Pyotr Kapitsa	Physicist	8-Jul-1894	8-Apr-1984	Discovered superfluidity
Steven T. Katz	Author	12-Aug-1944		Professor of Religion
Barry J. Kemp	Archaeologist	1940		Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilisation
John C. Kendrew	Chemist	24-Mar-1917	23-Aug-1997	Determined structure of myoglobin
Otto Kerner	Politician	15-Aug-1908	9-May-1976	Governor of Illinois, 1961-68
Roy Kerr	Mathematician	16-May-1934		Rotating black holes
John Maynard Keynes	Economist	5-Jun-1883	21-Apr-1946	Father of Keynesian economics
Ancel Keys	Scientist	26-Jan-1904	20-Nov-2004	Nutritionist, created the K ration
H. Gobind Khorana	Scientist	9-Jan-1922	9-Nov-2011	RNA's role in protein synthesis
Aaron Klug	Chemist	11-Aug-1926		Structural analysis of viruses
Georges J.F. Köhler	Scientist	17-Apr-1946	1-Mar-1995	Hybridoma technique (monoclonal antibodies)
John A. Koskinen	Business	30-Jun-1939		President, US Soccer Foundation
Howard J. Krongard	Government	12-Dec-1940		US State Dept Inspector General
Imre Lakatos	Philosopher	9-Nov-1922	2-Feb-1974	Philosopher of Science and Mathematics
Anthony Lake	Government	2-Apr-1939		Clinton's National Security Advisor
Norman Lamont	Politician	8-May-1942		Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1990-93
Lev Landau	Physicist	22-Jan-1908	1-Apr-1968	Superfluidity of helium
Ian Lang	Politician	27-Jun-1940		British MP for Galloway, 1979-97
Paul Langevin	Physicist	23-Jan-1872	19-Dec-1946	Studied piezoelectricity
Lewis Lapham	Editor	8-Jan-1935		Editor Emeritus, Harper's
Peter Laslett	Historian	18-Dec-1915	8-Nov-2001	The World We Have Lost
Hugh Latimer	Religion	c. 1490	16-Oct-1555	English Reformation
Hugh Laurie	Actor	11-Jun-1959		Jeeves and Wooster, House
William Law	Religion	1686	9-Apr-1761	Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
Louis Leakey	Anthropologist	7-Aug-1903	1-Oct-1972	Discovered Homo Habilis
Nathaniel Lee	Playwright	c. 1653	6-May-1692	The Rival Queens
John F. Lehman	Politician	14-Sep-1942		9-11 Commission member
John Lehmann	Poet	2-Jun-1907	7-Apr-1987	Thrown to the Woolfs
Stanford E. Lehmberg	Historian	23-Sep-1931	14-Jun-2012	Sir Thomas Elyot: Tudor Humanist
Luis Leloir	Chemist	6-Sep-1906	2-Dec-1987	Conversion of carbohydrates
Brian Lenihan	Politician	21-May-1959	10-Jun-2011	Irish Finance Minister, 2008-11
Mark Leonard	Author	27-Aug-1974		What Does China Think?
Abba Lerner	Economist	28-Oct-1903	27-Oct-1982	The Economics of Control
Ralph Lerner	Scholar	2-May-1928		The Thinking Revolutionary
Lawrence Lessig	Attorney	3-Jun-1961		Constitutional and internet law
David K. P. Li	Business	13-Mar-1939		CEO, Bank of East Asia
Selwyn Lloyd	Politician	28-Jul-1904	18-May-1978	Speaker, House of Commons, 1971-76
Louise Lombard	Actor	13-Sep-1970		Sofia Curtis on CSI
Lee Hsien Loong	Head of State	10-Feb-1952		Prime Minister of Singapore
Graham Love	Business	c. 1955		CEO of QinetiQ
Malcolm Lowry	Novelist	28-Jul-1909	27-Jun-1957	Under the Volcano
André Lwoff	Scientist	8-May-1902	30-Sep-1994	Operon theory of genetic control
Michael Lynch	Business	1965		Founder and CEO of Autonomy Corporation
Donald Lynden-Bell	Astronomer	5-Apr-1935		Astrophysicist at Cambridge
Jonathan Lynn	Screenwriter	3-Apr-1943		Yes, Minister
Thomas Babington Macaulay	Historian	25-Oct-1800	28-Dec-1859	History of England
Diarmaid MacCulloch	Historian	31-Oct-1951		Reformation: Europe's House Divided
Alan G. MacDiarmid	Chemist	14-Apr-1927	7-Feb-2007	Metallic polymers
Heather Mac Donald	Columnist	c. 1956		Neoconservative bombthrower
Ian MacDonald	Critic	3-Oct-1948	20-Aug-2003	Revolution in the Head
Donald Maclean	Spy	25-May-1913	6-Mar-1983	Spy for Moscow, Cambridge Five
Fitzroy Maclean	Politician	11-Mar-1911	15-Jun-1996	Eastern Approaches
Iain Macleod	Politician	11-Nov-1913	20-Jul-1970	UK Colonial Secretary, 1959-61
John Madden	Film Director	8-Apr-1949		Shakespeare in Love
Angus Maddison	Economist	6-Dec-1926	24-Apr-2010	Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD
F. W. Maitland	Historian	28-May-1850	19-Dec-1906	The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I
John Makinson	Business	?		Chairman & CEO, Penguin Group
Michael Mandelbaum	Author	23-Sep-1946		The Global Rivals
Miriam Margolyes	Actor	18-May-1941		The Age of Innocence
Christopher Marlowe	Playwright	6-Feb-1564	30-May-1593	Doctor Faustus
Richard Marquand	Film Director	17-Apr-1938	4-Sep-1987	Return of the Jedi
Andrew Marr	Journalist	31-Jul-1959		BBC Political Editor, 2000-05
Alfred Marshall	Economist	26-Jul-1842	13-Jul-1924	Principles of Economics
Archer J. P. Martin	Chemist	1-Mar-1910	28-Jul-2002	Partition chromatography
Andrew Marvell	Poet	31-Mar-1621	18-Aug-1678	English poet and member of Parliament
Eric Maskin	Economist	12-Dec-1950		Mechanism design theory
James Mason	Actor	15-May-1909	27-Jul-1984	North by Northwest
Harrie Massey	Astronomer	16-May-1908	27-Nov-1983	British National Committee for Space Research
Ann Mather	Business	c. 1960		CFO of Pixar, 1999-2004
Arjun K. Mathrani	Business	c. 1944		CFO of Chase Manhattan, 1994-96
Drummond Matthews	Geologist	5-Feb-1931	20-Jul-1997	Plate tectonics
Frederick Denison Maurice	Religion	29-Aug-1805	1-Apr-1872	19th c. Anglican theologian
Hamish Maxwell	Business	24-Aug-1926	19-Apr-2014	CEO of Philip Morris, 1984-91
James Clerk Maxwell	Physicist	13-Jun-1831	5-Nov-1879	Maxwell's equations
Thomas May	Poet	1595	13-Nov-1650	The History of the Long Parliament
John Maynard Smith	Biologist	6-Jan-1920	19-Apr-2004	Applied game theory to evolutionary biology
Richard Mayne	Author	2-Apr-1926	29-Nov-2009	The Community of Europe
John McCallum	Politician	9-Apr-1950		Canadian MP, Markham--Unionville
William McDougall	Psychologist	22-Jun-1871	28-Nov-1938	An Introduction to Social Psychology
Ian McKellen	Actor	25-May-1939		Gandalf the Grey
Marshall McLuhan	Author	21-Jul-1911	31-Dec-1980	Understanding Media
John McNee	Diplomat	c. 1951		Canadian Ambassador to the UN
John McPhee	Author	8-Mar-1931		Annals of the Former World
David J. P. Meachin	Business	c. 1941		Cross Border Enterprises
James Edward Meade	Economist	23-Jun-1907	22-Dec-1995	Theory of International Economic Policy
Edward Mellanby	Doctor	8-Apr-1884	30-Jan-1955	Rickets
Paul Mellon	Philanthropist	11-Jun-1907	1-Feb-1999	Yale Center for British Art benefactor
Sam Mendes	Film Director	1-Aug-1965		American Beauty
Thomas Merton	Author	31-Jan-1915	10-Dec-1968	The Seven Storey Mountain
John Michell	Geologist	1724	21-Apr-1793	Phaenomena of Earthquakes
Anne Milgram	Attorney	c. 1970		Attorney General of New Jersey, 2007-10
Jonathan Miller	Film Director	21-Jul-1934		Beyond the Fringe
Robert L. Mills	Physicist	15-Apr-1927	27-Oct-1999	Subatomic particles
A. A. Milne	Author	18-Jan-1882	31-Jan-1956	Winnie the Pooh
E. Arthur Milne	Mathematician	14-Feb-1896	21-Sep-1950	Kinematic relativity
Richard Monckton Milnes	Poet	19-Jun-1809	11-Aug-1885	Poetry for the People
César Milstein	Scientist	8-Oct-1927	24-Mar-2002	Hybridoma technique (monoclonal antibodies)
John Milton	Poet	9-Dec-1608	8-Nov-1674	Paradise Lost
James A. Mirrlees	Economist	5-Jul-1936		Asymmetric information in economics
Andrew Mitchell	Politician	23-Mar-1956		British MP, Sutton Coldfield
David Mitchell	Comic	14-Jul-1974		Peep Show
Peter Mitchell	Chemist	29-Sep-1920	10-Apr-1992	ADP to ATP conversion in mitochondria
Steven Mithen	Archaeologist	16-Oct-1960		After the Ice
Keith Moffatt	Mathematician	12-Apr-1935		Fluid dynamics
Christopher Monckton	Politician	14-Feb-1952		Deputy Leader, UK Independence Party
Mark Moody-Stuart	Business	15-Sep-1940		Chairman of Anglo American
Philip Moon	Physicist	17-May-1907	9-Oct-1994	Gamma ray fluorescence
G. E. Moore	Philosopher	4-Nov-1873	24-Oct-1958	Principia Ethica
Stanford Moore	Chemist	4-Sep-1913	23-Aug-1982	Amino-acid analyzer
Richard K. Morgan	Novelist	1965		Altered Carbon
Simon Conway Morris	Paleontologist	6-Nov-1951		Evolutionary paleobiologist
Nevill F. Mott	Physicist	30-Sep-1905	8-Aug-1996	Properties of semiconductors
Lord Mountbatten	Military	25-Jun-1900	27-Aug-1979	Last Viceroy of India
Malcolm Muggeridge	Author	24-Mar-1903	14-Nov-1990	Highly iconoclastic English wit
Frederick Mulley	Politician	3-Jul-1918	15-Mar-1995	UK Minister of Defence, 1976-79
Iris Murdoch	Novelist	15-Jul-1919	8-Feb-1999	The Sea, the Sea
Richard W. Murphy	Diplomat	29-Jul-1929		US Ambassador to Syria, 1974-78
Vladimir Nabokov	Novelist	23-Apr-1899	2-Jul-1977	Lolita
Joseph Needham	Historian	9-Dec-1900	24-Mar-1995	Science and Civilization in China
Jawaharlal Nehru	Head of State	14-Nov-1889	27-May-1964	First Prime Minister of India
Howard H. Newman	Business	c. 1947		Former Partner, Warburg Pincus
Isaac Newton	Physicist	4-Jan-1643	31-Mar-1727	Father of the clockwork universe
Thandie Newton	Actor	6-Nov-1972		The Truth About Charlie
Ernest Fox Nichols	Physicist	1-Jun-1869	29-Apr-1924	Infrared radiation
Philip Noel-Baker	Politician	1-Nov-1889	8-Oct-1982	Instrumental creating League of Nations and UN
Ronald G. W. Norrish	Chemist	9-Nov-1897	7-Jun-1978	Rapid chemical processes
John Nott	Politician	1-Feb-1932		Defence Minister during Falklands War
Trevor Nunn	Theater Director	14-Jan-1940		Royal Shakespeare Company, 1968-86
Brendan O'Neill	Business	c. 1948		CEO of Imperial Chemical Industries, 1999-2003
Michael Oakeshott	Philosopher	11-Dec-1901	19-Dec-1990	Rationalism in Politics
Titus Oates	Criminal	15-Sep-1649	12-Jul-1705	Popish Plot
Sophie Okonedo	Actor	1-Jan-1969		Hotel Rwanda
Mark Oliphant	Physicist	8-Oct-1901	14-Jul-2000	Deuterium reactions
John Oliver	Comic	23-Apr-1977		Last Week Tonight
Frank Oppenheimer	Physicist	14-Aug-1912	3-Feb-1985	Founder of the Exploratorium
Robert Oppenheimer	Physicist	22-Apr-1904	18-Feb-1967	Physicist, headed the Manhattan Project
William Oughtred	Mathematician	5-Mar-1574	30-Jun-1660	Inventor of the slide rule
David Owen	Politician	2-Jul-1938		UK Foreign Secretary, 1977-79
William Paley	Religion	1743	25-May-1805	Moral and Political Philosophy
Seymour Papert	Computer Programmer	29-Feb-1928	31-Jul-2016	Programming language LOGO
Matthew Parker	Religion	6-Aug-1504	15-May-1575	Archbishop of Canterbury, 1559-75
Cecil Parkinson	Politician	1-Sep-1931	22-Jan-2016	Thatcherite MP and Minister
Charles Stewart Parnell	Politician	27-Jun-1846	6-Oct-1891	Irish Nationalist leader
Thomas Parnell	Poet	1679	1718	The Hermit
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin	Astronomer	10-May-1900	7-Dec-1979	Hydrogen in the Sun
George Peacock	Mathematician	9-Apr-1791	8-Nov-1858	Treatise on Algebra
Rudolf Peierls	Physicist	5-Jun-1907	19-Sep-1995	Frisch-Peierls Memorandum
Vladimir Peniakoff	Military	30-Mar-1897	May-1951	Head of Popski's Private Army
Roger Penrose	Mathematician	8-Aug-1931		Theory of cosmic censorship
Samuel Pepys	Author	23-Feb-1633	26-May-1703	London diarist
Spencer Perceval	Head of State	1-Nov-1762	11-May-1812	UK Prime Minister, 1809-12
Max F. Perutz	Chemist	19-May-1914	6-Feb-2002	X-Ray analysis of hemoglobin
John Pethica	Physicist	1953		Atomic force microscopy
Kim Philby	Spy	1-Jan-1912	11-May-1988	One of the Cambridge Five in MI6
Ambrose Philips	Poet	c. 1675	18-Jun-1749	Pastorals
Gregory Pincus	Scientist	9-Apr-1903	22-Aug-1967	Inventor of oral contraceptives
William Pitt the Elder	Head of State	15-Nov-1708	11-May-1778	Seven Years War
William Pitt the Younger	Head of State	28-May-1759	23-Jan-1806	UK Prime Minister
Sylvia Plath	Poet	27-Oct-1932	11-Feb-1963	Daddy
George Plimpton	Author	18-Mar-1927	25-Sep-2003	Paper Lion
J. H. Plumb	Historian	20-Aug-1911	21-Oct-2001	England in the Eighteenth Century
J. G. A. Pocock	Historian	7-Mar-1924		The Machiavellian Moment
Norman Podhoretz	Author	16-Jan-1930		Prominent neocon author
Richard Poirier	Critic	9-Sep-1925	15-Aug-2009	Raritan, A Quarterly Review
Martyn Poliakoff	Physicist	16-Dec-1947		The Periodic Table of Videos
John A. Pople	Chemist	31-Oct-1925	15-Mar-2004	Quantum mechanics of molecules
George Porter	Chemist	6-Dec-1920	31-Aug-2002	Rapid chemical and biological processes
Rodney R. Porter	Scientist	8-Oct-1917	6-Sep-1985	Chemical structure of antibodies
Michael Portillo	Politician	26-May-1953		Former Conservative MP
George H. Poste	Biologist	c. 1944		Health Technology Networks
Andrew Powell	Musician	18-Apr-1949		Orchestral arranger for Alan Parsons
Cecil Powell	Physicist	5-Dec-1903	9-Aug-1969	Discovered the pi-meson
Enoch Powell	Politician	16-Jun-1912	8-Feb-1998	British demagogue
John Cowper Powys	Novelist	8-Oct-1872	17-Jun-1963	Wolf Solent
Simon Preston	Organist	4-Aug-1938		Organist at Westminster Abbey, 1981-87
J. B. Priestley	Novelist	13-Sep-1894	14-Aug-1984	An Inspector Calls
James Prior	Politician	11-Oct-1927		Minister for Northern Ireland, 1981-84
Frederic Prokosch	Novelist	17-May-1908	6-Jun-1989	The Skies of Europe
Joseph Proudman	Mathematician	30-Dec-1888	26-Jun-1975	Tidal currents
Reginald Punnett	Biologist	20-Jun-1875	3-Jan-1967	Early geneticist
Francis Pym	Politician	13-Feb-1922	6-Mar-2008	UK Foreign Secretary, 1982-83
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown	Anthropologist	17-Jan-1881	24-Oct-1955	Father of modern social anthropology
Tunku Abdul Rahman	Head of State	8-Feb-1903	6-Dec-1990	First Prime Minister of Malaysia, 1957-70
Kathleen Raine	Poet	14-Jun-1908	6-Jul-2003	Cambridge poet, scholar of Blake
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	Scientist	1952		Ribosomes
Srinivasa Ramanujan	Mathematician	22-Dec-1887	26-Apr-1920	Self-educated mathematician
Robin Raphel	Diplomat	1947		US Ambassador to Tunisia, 1997-2000
Ahmed Rashid	Author	8-Jun-1948		The Resurgence of Central Asia
Lord Rayleigh	Physicist	12-Nov-1842	30-Jun-1919	Why the sky is blue
Michael Redgrave	Actor	20-Mar-1908	21-Mar-1985	Mourning Becomes Electra
Eddie Redmayne	Actor	6-Jan-1982		Red
Martin Rees	Astronomer	23-Jun-1942		President of the Royal Society
Uwe E. Reinhardt	Educator	24-Sep-1937		Health economist
Robin W. Renwick	Diplomat	13-Dec-1937		UK Ambassador to the US, 1991-95
I. A. Richards	Critic	26-Feb-1893	7-Sep-1979	The Meaning of Meaning
Owen Willans Richardson	Physicist	26-Apr-1879	15-Feb-1959	Electron emissions of metals
Nicholas Ridley	Religion	c. 1500	16-Oct-1555	Anglican Bishop and martyr
Jonathan Riley-Smith	Historian	27-Jun-1938		The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading
Andrew Roberts	Historian	13-Jan-1963		Eminent Churchillians
Richard J. Roberts	Scientist	6-Sep-1943		Eukaryotic (split) genes
Charles Stewart Rolls	Business	27-Aug-1877	12-Jul-1910	Co-Founder of Rolls-Royce
Eugene Victor Rostow	Educator	25-Aug-1913	25-Nov-2002	Dean of Yale Law School, 1955-65
Edmund de Rothschild	Business	2-Jan-1916	17-Jan-2009	British banker
William S. Rukeyser	Journalist	1939		Managing Editor of Fortune
Alan Rusbridger	Editor	29-Dec-1953		Editor of The Guardian
Salman Rushdie	Novelist	19-Jun-1947		The Satanic Verses
Bertrand Russell	Mathematician	18-May-1872	2-Feb-1970	Mathematician, atheist, and social critic
Dora Russell	Activist	3-Apr-1894	31-May-1986	Feminist, birth control and peace activist
Ernest Rutherford	Physicist	30-Aug-1871	19-Oct-1937	Father of nuclear physics
Martin Ryle	Astronomer	27-Sep-1918	14-Oct-1984	Radio astronomer
Charles Ryskamp	Administrator	21-Oct-1928	26-Mar-2010	Frick Collection Director, 1987-97
Abdus Salam	Physicist	29-Jan-1926	21-Nov-1996	Electroweak Theory
Philippe Sands	Scholar	17-Oct-1960		Lawless World
Frederick Sanger	Chemist	13-Aug-1918	19-Nov-2013	Two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry
Siegfried Sassoon	Poet	8-Sep-1886	1-Sep-1967	War Poems
Simon Schama	Historian	13-Feb-1945		Landscape and Memory
Richard R. Schrock	Chemist	4-Jan-1945		Metathesis
Roger Scruton	Philosopher	27-Feb-1944		The Meaning of Conservatism
Amartya Sen	Economist	3-Nov-1933		Poverty and Famines
Thomas Shadwell	Playwright	c. 1642	19-Nov-1692	Epsom Wells
Peter Shaffer	Playwright	15-May-1926	6-Jun-2016	Amadeus, Equus
John Shattuck	Attorney	1943		CEO, JFK Library Foundation
Charles Shaughnessy	Actor	9-Feb-1955		Maxwell Sheffield on The Nanny
Charles Sherrington	Doctor	27-Nov-1857	4-Mar-1952	Neurons and synapses
James Shirley	Playwright	1596	29-Oct-1666	Love Tricks
William Shirley	Government	2-Dec-1694	24-Mar-1771	Colonial Governor of Massachusetts
David Shoenberg	Physicist	4-Jan-1911	10-Mar-2004	Physicist at Cambridge
Peter Shore	Politician	20-May-1924	24-Sep-2001	Former MP, Stepney
Henry Sidgwick	Philosopher	31-May-1838	29-Aug-1900	Method of Ethics
Don Siegel	Film Director	26-Oct-1912	20-Apr-1991	Dirty Harry
Richard G. Sim	Business	c. 1944		APW Ltd.
Claude Simon	Novelist	10-Oct-1913	6-Jul-2005	Le Tricheur
Manmohan Singh	Head of State	26-Sep-1932		Prime Minister of India
Simon Singh	Author	19-Sep-1964		Fermat's Enigma
John Skelton	Poet	c. 1460	21-Jun-1529	Why come ye nat to courte
Quentin Skinner	Historian	26-Nov-1940		The Foundations of Modern Political Thought
Tony Slattery	Actor	9-Nov-1959		Whose Line Is it Anyway?
Sir Hans Sloane	Curator	16-Apr-1660	11-Jan-1753	Milk chocolate and the British Museum
Ali Smith	Author	24-Aug-1962		There But For The
C. Aubrey Smith	Actor	21-Jul-1863	20-Dec-1948	The Four Feathers
Zadie Smith	Novelist	27-Oct-1975		White Teeth
Jan Smuts	Politician	24-May-1870	11-Sep-1950	South African Prime Minister
C. P. Snow	Author	15-Oct-1905	1-Jul-1980	The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
Iain Softley	Film Director	30-Oct-1956		K-PAX
Henry Spelman	Scholar	c. 1564	Oct-1641	English antiquary
Jonathan D. Spence	Historian	11-Aug-1936		The Search for Modern China
Harold Spencer Jones	Astronomer	29-Mar-1890	3-Nov-1960	10th Royal Astronomer of England
Edmund Spenser	Poet	c. 1552	13-Jan-1599	The Faerie Queene
John Sperling	Business	9-Jan-1921	22-Aug-2014	Founder, University of Phoenix
Lyman Spitzer, Jr.	Astronomer	26-Jun-1914	31-Mar-1997	Father of space telescopes
Richard Spring	Politician	24-Sep-1946		British MP, West Suffolk
Norman St. John-Stevas	Politician	18-May-1929	2-Mar-2012	Leader, House of Commons, 1979-81
Barbara Stallings	Educator	c. 1944		Watson Institute for International Studies
Sir Leslie Stephen	Encyclopaedist	28-Nov-1832	22-Feb-1904	Dictionary of National Biography
Laurence Sterne	Novelist	24-Nov-1713	18-Mar-1768	Tristram Shandy
Dan Stevens	Actor	10-Oct-1982		Matthew Crawley on Downton Abbey
Dennis Stevenson	Business	19-Jul-1945		Chairman of HBOS
Ian Stewart	Mathematician	24-Sep-1945		Catastrophe theory
Potter Stewart	Judge	23-Jan-1915	7-Dec-1985	US Supreme Court Justice, 1958-81
Joseph Stiglitz	Economist	9-Feb-1943		Ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank
George Gabriel Stokes	Physicist	13-Aug-1819	1-Feb-1903	Fluid dynamicist, optic waves
Richard Stone	Economist	30-Aug-1913	6-Dec-1991	National Income and Expenditure
Lytton Strachey	Author	1-Mar-1880	21-Jan-1932	Eminent Victorians
Bjarne Stroustrup	Computer Programmer	1950		Inventor of C++ programming language
William Stukeley	Historian	7-Nov-1687	3-Mar-1765	Stonehenge, a Temple Restored
Sir John Suckling	Poet	1609	1642	Fragmenta Aurea
Thomas J. Sugrue	Historian	24-Jul-1962		The Origins of the Urban Crisis
John E. Sulston	Scientist	27-Mar-1942		Genetic regulation of organ development
Clive Swift	Actor	9-Feb-1936		Keeping Up Appearances
Graham Swift	Novelist	4-May-1949		Last Orders
Tilda Swinton	Actor	5-Nov-1960		The Deep End
Thomas Sydenham	Doctor	13-Sep-1624	29-Dec-1689	The English Hippocrates
James Joseph Sylvester	Mathematician	3-Sep-1814	15-Mar-1897	Studied finite analysis
Richard L. M. Synge	Chemist	28-Oct-1914	18-Aug-1994	Partition chromatography
Albert Szent-Györgyi	Scientist	16-Sep-1893	22-Oct-1986	Vitamins C and B2
Peter Guthrie Tait	Physicist	28-Apr-1831	4-Jul-1901	Treatise on Quaternions
William Henry Fox Talbot	Inventor	11-Feb-1800	17-Sep-1877	Calotype method of photography
Brook Taylor	Mathematician	18-Aug-1685	29-Dec-1731	Calculus of Finite Differences
Jeremy Taylor	Religion	15-Aug-1613	13-Aug-1667	Holy Living and Holy Dying
J. André Teixeira	Business	17-Jun-1952		President of Coca-Cola Russia, 1998-2001
Harold Temperley	Historian	20-Apr-1879	11-Jul-1939	The Foreign Policy of Canning
Julien Temple	Film Director	26-Nov-1953		The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
Alfred Lord Tennyson	Poet	6-Aug-1809	6-Oct-1892	The Charge of the Light Brigade
William Makepeace Thackeray	Novelist	18-Jul-1811	24-Dec-1863	Vanity Fair
Stephan Thernstrom	Scholar	1934		Neoconservative thinker
D'Arcy Thompson	Biologist	2-May-1860	21-Jun-1948	On Growth and Form
E. P. Thompson	Historian	3-Feb-1924	28-Aug-1993	The Making of the English Working Class
Emma Thompson	Actor	15-Apr-1959		Howard's End
George Paget Thomson	Physicist	3-May-1892	10-Sep-1975	Diffraction of electrons
J. J. Thomson	Physicist	18-Dec-1856	30-Aug-1940	Discovered the electron
Ken Thomson	Business	1-Sep-1923	12-Jun-2006	Ex-CEO, Thomson Corp.
Brian Tierney	Scholar	1-May-1922		Origins of Papal Infallibility
Stephen Timms	Politician	29-Jul-1955		Labour MP for East Ham, stabbed
Alexander R. Todd	Chemist	2-Oct-1907	10-Jan-1997	Nucleic acid, nucleotides
Eckhart Tolle	Religion	16-Feb-1948		The Power of Now
John Townsend	Mathematician	7-Jun-1868	16-Feb-1957	Electron's charge
G. M. Trevelyan	Historian	16-Feb-1876	21-Jul-1962	England under Queen Anne
Roger Y. Tsien	Scientist	1-Feb-1952	24-Aug-2016	Green Fluorescent Protein
Richard Tuck	Educator	9-Jan-1949		Natural Rights Theories
Alan Turing	Mathematician	23-Jun-1912	7-Jun-1954	Computing pioneer
Herbert Hall Turner	Astronomer	13-Aug-1861	20-Aug-1930	Stellar positions
Paul Twomey	Business	18-Jul-1961		CEO of ICANN
William Tyndale	Religion	1492	6-Oct-1536	Bible translator, burnt at the stake
Tom Udall	Politician	18-May-1948		US Senator from New Mexico
David M. Upton	Business	c. 1959		Professor at HBS
Yanis Varoufakis	Economist	24-Mar-1961		Greek Finance Minister
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Composer	12-Oct-1872	26-Aug-1958	Sinfonia Antarctica
John Venn	Mathematician	4-Aug-1834	4-Apr-1923	Venn diagrams
Frederick Vine	Geologist	17-Jun-1939		Plate tectonics
Justine Waddell	Actor	4-Nov-1976		Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Sir Thomas Francis Wade	Diplomat	25-Aug-1818	31-Jul-1895	British envoy to China
Edmund Waller	Poet	3-Mar-1606	21-Oct-1687	Go, Lovely Rose
John Wallis	Mathematician	23-Nov-1616	28-Oct-1703	Arithmetica Infinitorum
Robert Walmsley	Military	1-Feb-1941		Retired Royal Navy Admiral
Horace Walpole	Author	24-Sep-1717	2-Mar-1797	Wrote the first Gothic novel
Robert Walpole	Head of State	26-Aug-1676	18-Mar-1745	UK's first Prime Minister
Sir Francis Walsingham	Government	c. 1532	6-Apr-1590	Secretary to Elizabeth I
Ernest T. S. Walton	Physicist	6-Oct-1903	25-Jun-1995	Split the atom
Michael Walzer	Philosopher	3-Mar-1935		Just and Unjust Wars
Nathaniel Ward	Religion	c. 1578	Oct-1652	Wrote Massachusetts' Body of Liberties
Peter Watkins	Film Director	29-Oct-1935		Punishment Park
Douglas G. Watson	Business	c. 1945		CEO of Novartis USA, 1996-99
James Watson	Scientist	6-Apr-1928		Co-Discoverer of DNA
Robert Webb	Comic	29-Sep-1972		Peep Show
Eugen Weber	Historian	24-Apr-1925	17-May-2007	The Western Tradition
Rachel Weisz	Actor	7-Mar-1971		The Constant Gardener
W. C. Wentworth	Government	1790	20-Mar-1872	Australian patriot
William Whiston	Religion	9-Dec-1667	22-Aug-1752	Apostolical Constitutions
Patrick White	Novelist	28-May-1912	30-Sep-1990	Riders in the Chariot
T. H. White	Author	29-May-1906	17-Jan-1964	The Once and Future King
Alfred North Whitehead	Mathematician	15-Feb-1861	30-Dec-1947	Metaphysical mathematician
William Whitelaw	Politician	28-Jun-1918	1-Jul-1999	UK Deputy Prime Minister, 1979-88
Norbert Wiener	Mathematician	26-Nov-1894	18-Mar-1964	Cybernetics
William Wilberforce	Activist	24-Aug-1759	29-Jul-1833	Abolitionist activist and author
Andrew Wiles	Mathematician	11-Apr-1953		Proved Fermat's Last Theorem
Malcolm R. Wilkey	Judge	6-Dec-1918	15-Aug-2009	US Ambassador to Uruguay, 1985-90
Maurice Wilkins	Biologist	15-Dec-1916	5-Oct-2004	Took X-ray pictures of DNA
Olivia Williams	Actor	26-Jul-1968		The Sixth Sense
Raymond Williams	Critic	31-Aug-1921	26-Jan-1988	Culture and Society
Roger Williams	Religion	c. 1604	1684	Founder of Rhode Island Colony
Rowan Williams	Religion	14-Jun-1950		Archbishop of Canterbury
Barry W. Wilson	Business	c. 1945		Senior VP at Medtronic
C. T. R. Wilson	Physicist	14-Feb-1869	15-Nov-1959	Cloud chamber
Peter H. Wilson	Historian	1963		The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy
Tony Wilson	TV Personality	20-Feb-1950	10-Aug-2007	Founder of Factory Records
Sophie Winkleman	Actor	5-Aug-1980		The Trial of Tony Blair
Michael Winner	Film Director	30-Oct-1935	20-Jan-2013	Death Wish
John Winthrop	Politician	12-Jan-1588	26-Mar-1649	Governor of Massachusetts Colony
William Wollaston	Philosopher	26-Mar-1659	29-Oct-1724	The Religion of Nature Delineated
William Hyde Wollaston	Chemist	6-Aug-1766	22-Dec-1828	Discovered palladium, rhodium
Shaun Woodward	Politician	26-Oct-1958		British MP, St. Helens South
Leonard Woolf	Author	25-Nov-1880	14-Aug-1969	British memoirist, husband of Virginia
William Wordsworth	Poet	7-Apr-1770	23-Apr-1850	English romantic poet laureate
Douglas T. Wright	Educator	4-Oct-1927		President, University of Waterloo, 1981-93
E. A. Wrigley	Historian	17-Aug-1931		Continuity, Chance and Change
Sir Thomas Wyat	Poet	1503	6-Oct-1542	Introduced sonnet to England
Daniel Yergin	Author	6-Feb-1947		The Prize
Lee Kuan Yew	Head of State	16-Sep-1923	23-Mar-2015	Prime Minister of Singapore, 1959-90
Warren Zimmermann	Diplomat	16-Nov-1934	2-Feb-2004	US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1989-92