University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom.

See also

Assorted alumni

See also List of University of Cambridge people (extensive list) and

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Alumni of the University of Cambridge (college lists)

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• Douglas Adams (St John's)
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Trinity)
• Charles Babbage (Trinity, Peterhouse)
• Sir Francis Bacon (Trinity)
• Lord Byron (Trinity)
• John Cleese (Downing)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Jesus)
• Oliver Cromwell (Sidney Sussex)
• Charles Darwin (Christ's)
• Paul Dirac (St John's)
• Nick Drake (Fitzwilliam)
• Desiderius Erasmus (Queens')
• E.M. Forster (King's)
• Stephen Fry (Queens')
• Jane Goodall (Newnham)
• Germaine Greer (Newnham)
• John Harvard (Emmanuel)
• William Harvey (Gonville & Caius)
• Stephen Hawking (Trinity Hall, Gonville & Caius)
• Ted Hughes (Pembroke)
• Lord Kelvin (Peterhouse)
• John Maynard Keynes (King's)
• Lawrence Lessig (Trinity)
• C. S. Lewis (Magdalene)
• Alfred Marshall (St John's)
• James Clerk Maxwell (Peterhouse, Trinity)
• Ian McKellen (St Catharine's)
• A. A. Milne (Trinity)
• John Milton (Christ's)
• Vladimir Nabakov (Trinity)
• Isaac Newton (Trinity)
• Sylvia Plath (Newnham)
• Salman Rushdie (King's)
• Bertrand Russell (Trinity)
• Ernest Rutherford (Trinity)
• Siegfried Sassoon (Clare)
• Simon Schama (Christ's)
• Amartya Sen (Trinity)
• Martin Sorrell (Christ's)
• John Sperling (King's)
• J.J. Thomson (Trinity)
• Emma Thompson (Newnham)
• Alan Turing (King's)
• John Venn (Gonville & Caius)
• William Wilberforce (St John's)
• Ludwig Wittgenstein (Trinity)
• William Wordsworth (St John's)
• Thomas Young (Emmanuel)

History and traditions

• Cambridge University Professorships, Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors
• List of Oxbridge sister colleges
• Oxbridge scarf colours
• Academic dress of the University of Cambridge

Societies and leisure activities

• See complete list on the University website
• The Boat Race against Oxford University
• Cambridge Apostles
• The Cambridge Union Society
• Cambridge University Association Football League
• CUR1350, the student radio station
• May Balls
• Punting
• Varsity and TCS, the student newspapers

Organisations and institutions associated with the university

• Auto-ID Labs
• Cambridge Assessment (formally known as the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate)
• Cambridge Network - Cambridge University industry networking
• Cambridge Union
• Cambridge University Library
• Cambridge University Press
• Cambridge University Students' Union (CUSU)
• Coimbra Group
• Fitzwilliam Museum
• Granta literary magazine
• Kettle's Yard art gallery
• League of European Research Universities
• Phoenix
• Russell Group
• Sidgwick Site
• West Cambridge
• Westminster Quarters