Clare College, Cambridge

Clare College is a college of the University of Cambridge, the second oldest surviving college after Peterhouse.

Famous alumni

• Peter Ackroyd, author
• Sir David Attenborough, naturalist
• Sabine Baring-Gould, Victorian novelist
• Sir John Boyd, now Master of Churchill College
• Charles, Lord Cornwallis, British general in the American Revolutionary War
• Nicholas Ferrer
• John Guy, leading Tudor historian and Fellow of the College.
• David Howarth, Lib Dem MP for Cambridge and Fellow of the College.
• Tim Hunt, biochemist
• Hugh Latimer, Chaplain to Henry VIII, Bishop of Worcester, martyr
• Peter Lilley, Conservative MP
• Andrew Manze, violinist
• Sir Roger Norrington, conductor
• Matthew Parris, Broadcaster, political analyst and former Conservative MP
• Geoffrey Robinson, Labour MP
• John Rutter, composer
• Dr Richard Taylor, Independent MP
• Cecil Sharp
• Siegfried Sassoon, war poet
• Richard Stilgoe, entertainer
• James D. Watson double helix discoverer and human genome advocate
• Richard Wainwright, Liberal MP
• Andrew Wiles, mathematician who proved Fermat's last theorem
• Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury 2003-present