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CAMBRIDGE
Most Famous People Born in Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 517
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1947
- Most distinctive
- Geographer 15.4×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Cambridge during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Cambridge Is Known For
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Football is Cambridge's biggest profession — 9% of all notables (49).
Cambridge over-indexes on geographer — 15.4× the global rate.
Cambridge under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Cambridge's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Science
- Writing
- Film & TV
- Music
- Politics & Law
- Other
John Maynard Keynes
1883 - 1946
Richard Attenborough
1923 - 2014
Syd Barrett
1946 - 2006
Douglas Adams
1952 - 2001
Olivia Newton-John
Born 1948
David Gilmour
Born 1946
Charli XCX
Born 1992
Ben Barnes (actor)
Born 1981
Andrew Wiles
Born 1953
Matt Bellamy
Born 1978
Rupert Friend
Born 1981
George Paget Thomson
1892 - 1975
Simon McBurney
Born 1957
Jeremy Northam
Born 1961
Frank P. Ramsey
1903 - 1930
Nigel Davenport
1928 - 2013
Rebecca Mader
Born 1977
Jenny Saville
Born 1970
Steven Mackintosh
Born 1967
Simon Wells
Born 1961
Simon Donaldson
Born 1957
Richard Garriott
Born 1961
Jack Hobbs
1882 - 1963
Tom Robinson
Born 1950
Ronald Searle
1920 - 2011
Charles Galton Darwin
1887 - 1962
Ralph Brown
Born 1957
G. Evelyn Hutchinson
1903 - 1991
F. R. Leavis
1895 - 1978
Michael Ramsey
1904 - 1988
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
1897 - 1978
J. J. C. Smart
1920 - 2012
G. D. H. Cole
1889 - 1959
William T. Stearn
1911 - 2001
Richard Taylor (mathematician)
Born 1962
Sergey Kapitsa
1928 - 2012
Isobel Elsom
1893 - 1981
Douglas Hartree
1897 - 1958
G. A. Henty
1832 - 1902
Judith Weir
Born 1954
Dick Higgins
1938 - 1998
Rajani Palme Dutt
1896 - 1974
Ninian Smart
1927 - 2001
Chris Geere
Born 1981
Christopher Cockerell
1910 - 1999
David Leland
Born 1947
Jacquetta Hawkes
1910 - 1996
Jeremy Taylor
1613 - 1667
Christopher Tye
Born 1505
Tim Renwick
Born 1949
Tristram Hunt
Born 1974
John Cheke
1514 - 1557
Brian G. Marsden
1937 - 2010
Michael Pennington
Born 1943
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
Born 1986
Nick Herbert
Born 1963
Richard Cumberland (dramatist)
1732 - 1811
H. F. Baker
1866 - 1956
Amy Williams
Born 1982
John Cornford
1915 - 1936
Matthew Chapman (author)
Born 1950
Damaris Cudworth Masham
1659 - 1708
G. L. S. Shackle
1903 - 1992
Gwen Raverat
1885 - 1957
Bob Klose
Born 1945
Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford
1627 - 1703
Stephen Law
Born 1960
Norman Wilkinson (artist)
1878 - 1971
James Runcie
Born 1959
Tim Brent
Born 1984
Edward Henry Palmer
1840 - 1882
John Ziman
1925 - 2005
Jonathan Mestel
Born 1957
Geoffrey Keynes
1887 - 1982
Alan Wace
1879 - 1957
Mary Kaldor
Born 1946
Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger
1897 - 1988
Roger Tomlinson
1933 - 2014
Alex Goode
Born 1988
Patrick Hadley
1899 - 1973
Andrey Kapitsa
1931 - 2011
Nick Stone (author)
Born 1966
John Raven
1914 - 1980
Luke Chadwick
Born 1980
Andrew Strominger
Born 1955
Ian Kelly (actor)
Born 1966
Norman Rosenthal
Born 1944
Edward McMillan-Scott
Born 1949
Alex Revell
Born 1983
Daniel Goodfellow
Born 1996
Astro Teller
Born 1970
Martin Kenzie
1956 - 2012
Rufus Norris
Born 1965
John Kirtland Wright
1891 - 1969
Teddy Bishop
Born 1996
Mark Lancaster
Born 1970
William Whitehead (poet)
1715 - 1785
Randal Keynes
Born 1948
Gavin Baddeley
Born 1966
Johannes Roberts
Born 1976
Israel Lyons
1739 - 1775
Tom Blomqvist
Born 1993
George H. Bryan
1864 - 1928
Nick Arnold (writer)
Born 1964
Robert Huff
Born 1979
Lady Amelia Windsor
Born 1995
Alexander Whitaker
1585 - 1616
Logistics (musician)
Born 1981
Callum Ilott
Born 1998
George Freeman (politician)
Born 1967
Anne Stevenson
1933 - 2020
Martin Robertson
1911 - 2004
Rosamund Lupton
Born 1964
Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke
1757 - 1834
Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley
1915 - 2017
William Bosworth Castle
1897 - 1990
John Clarke (physicist)
Born 1942
Nicholas Moore
1918 - 1986
Archibald Forbes
1838 - 1900
H. M. Brock
1875 - 1960
Dallas Brooks
1896 - 1966
Rosie Day
Born 1994
Jenny Valentine
Born 1970
Liam O'Neil (footballer)
Born 1993
Julian Huppert
Born 1978
Iestyn Davies
Born 1979
Rowan Robertson
Born 1971
Mick Quinn
Born 1969
Edward Bennett (director)
Born 1950
Edmund Nelson (priest)
1722 - 1802
Clive Stafford Smith
Born 1959
Raymond Postgate
1896 - 1971
Chris Maitland
Born 1964
Richard Grove
1955 - 2020
Fredegond Shove
1889 - 1949
Henry Folland
1889 - 1954
Andrew N. Schofield
Born 1930
Ben Wilson (artist)
Born 1963
Steven Spurrier (wine merchant)
Born 1944
Sarah Haffner
1940 - 2018
Harry Hall (painter)
1816 - 1882
Steven Cowley
Born 1951
Thomas Mace
1613 - 1709
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold MP)
Born 1953
Mary Rees
Born 1953
Francesca Happé
Born 1967
John Hilton the younger
1599 - 1657
Louise Wilson
1962 - 2014
Malcolm Dixon
1899 - 1985
Rebecca Stott
Born 1964
E. M. W. Tillyard
1889 - 1962
Patrick O'Flynn
Born 1965
William Ernest Johnson
1858 - 1931
Michael Swann
1920 - 1990
Maya Forbes
Born 1968
Will Clarke (triathlete)
Born 1985
Lucy Joan Slater
1922 - 2008
Iain Dale
Born 1962
John Taylor (bishop of Winchester)
1914 - 2001
Simon Keynes
Born 1952
John Macnaghten Whittaker
1905 - 1984
Fraser Armstrong (professor)
Born 1951
Craigie Horsfield
Born 1949
Graham Stuart Thomas
1909 - 2003
Barry Pain
1864 - 1928
Ellis Gibbons
1573 - 1603
Lucy Skaer
Born 1975
Siobhan Williams
Born 1991
Harcourt Butler
1869 - 1938
Simon Scott (drummer)
Born 1971
Adam Dant
Born 1967
Helen Castor
Born 1968
Harry Oster
1923 - 2001
Polly Hill (economist)
1914 - 2005
Arthur Marshall (engineer)
1903 - 2007
Carlton Morris
Born 1995
Steve Parrish
Born 1953
Kate Buffery
Born 1957
Thomas Thirlby
1500 - 1570
Catherine Banner
Born 1989
Rachel Ashwell
Born 1959
Peter Townsend (golfer)
Born 1946
Neil Kensington Adam
1891 - 1973
Lara Carroll
Born 1986
Hilda Phoebe Hudson
1881 - 1965
Georgie Gent
Born 1988
Walter William Skeat (anthropologist)
1866 - 1953
Jonnie Peacock
Born 1993
Byron Lawrence
Born 1996
Henry Woods (geologist)
1868 - 1952
Sydney J. Hickson
1859 - 1940
George Robert Crotch
1842 - 1874
Tom Hayward
1871 - 1939
Walter Frere
1863 - 1938
Marissa King
Born 1991
Ann Sutherland Harris
Born 1937
Dan Murray (English footballer)
Born 1982
John Hurst (archaeologist)
1927 - 2003
Blakey Vermeule
Born 1966
Dominic Lash
Born 1980
Cyril James Stubblefield
1901 - 1999
Phyllis Gardner
1890 - 1939
Jane Fawcett
1921 - 2016
Christopher Purves
Born 1960
David S. H. Rosenthal
Born 1948
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Born 1974
John Storey (rower)
Born 1987
Marina-Carlota Windsor
Born 1992
Gerard McBurney
Born 1954
Jennifer Croxton
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Robin Perutz
Born 1949
Rosalind Ellicott
1857 - 1924
Adrian Clarke (footballer)
Born 1974
Shahida Rahman
Born 1971
Edward Vaughan Bevan
1907 - 1988
Bas Pease
1922 - 2004
Christina Baker Kline
Born 1964
Max Stafford-Clark
Born 1941
Richard Youngs
Born 1966
George Henslow
1835 - 1925
Lucinda Raikes
Born 1975
Charles Cousins
Born 1988
Adam Brown (swimmer)
Born 1989
Stephen Bigelow
Born 1971
Fred Roe
1864 - 1947
Colin Leakey
1933 - 2018
Colin James (bishop)
1926 - 2009
Elizabeth B. Bryant
1875 - 1953
Francis Lickerish
Born 1954
David Bates (English artist)
1840 - 1921
Christopher N. L. Brooke
1927 - 2015
Geraint Rees
Born 1967
Gregory Clark (author)
Born 1936
John Peake
Born 1924
James Duport
1606 - 1679
Sarah Raven
Born 1963
Gertrude Bacon
1874 - 1949
Shane Acton
1947 - 2002
Ian Twinn
Born 1950
Mark Crozer
-
Ben Thapa
Born 1982
Leo Myers
1881 - 1944
Monty Oxymoron
Born 1937
Alexander Wolfe (musician)
Born 1981
Afshin Rattansi
Born 1968
Peter Oliver, Baron Oliver of Aylmerton
1921 - 2007
Margaret Heitland
1860 - 1938
Sally Thomas
Born 1939
Phyllis Barclay-Smith
1902 - 1980
Tuppy Owens
Born 1944
Eddy Shah
Born 1944
Agnes Jones
1832 - 1868
Michael Spillane (footballer)
Born 1989
Roger Newdigate
1719 - 1806
Antonio Murray
Born 1984
Anthony Browne (UK politics)
Born 1967
Valerie Mason-John
Born 1962
Nellie Sengupta
1886 - 1973
Francis Bell (actor)
1944 - 1994
Rowena Green Matthews
Born 1938
Darren Campbell (footballer)
Born 1986
Katherine Kingsley
Born 1981
Thomas North Whitehead
1891 - 1969
Adrian Dixon
Born 1948
Josh Coulson
Born 1989
Jeni Tennison
-
Rowly Dennis
Born 1980
Gordon J. Brand
1955 - 2020
Danny Kelly (footballer, born 1990)
Born 1990
Fiona Onasanya
Born 1983
Judith Trim
1943 - 2001
George Henry Law
1761 - 1845
Alan Mackworth
Born 1945
Peter Rathjen
Born 1964
Claire Gordon
1941 - 2015
Eric Sheppard
Born 1950
Felix Krämer
Born 1971
Kevin Wilkin
Born 1967
Michael Lee (speedway rider)
Born 1958
John Dainton
Born 1947
James John McLeod Innes
1830 - 1907
Anthony Stern
Born 1944
Richard Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian
1927 - 1995
Jean Bedford
Born 1910
Mark Bretscher
Born 1940
Ryan Auger
Born 1994
Alex Rhodes (footballer)
Born 1982
Bruce Logan (rower)
1886 - 1965
Tom Westley
Born 1989
Sonia Humphrey
1947 - 2011
Matthew Scurfield
Born 1948
Julian Bicknell
Born 1945
Ellice Hopkins
1836 - 1904
David Theobald
Born 1978
Ben Nunn
Born 1990
James Sargant Storer
1771 - 1853
Adam Cvijanovic
Born 1960
Tom Meechan
Born 1991
Aelfrida Tillyard
1883 - 1959
J. R. M. Butler
1889 - 1975