- Syd Barrett
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, and artist. He is best remembered as a founding member of Pink Floyd. He was active as a rock musician for about ten years before going into seclusion, from which he never publicly emerged for 35 years, until his death in 2006. - David Gilmour
David Jon Gilmour CBE (born March 6, 1946 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) is an English guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a member of the band Pink Floyd. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has also worked as a record producer for a variety of famous artists. Gilmour has been very active in many charity organisations over the course of his career. In 2003, he was appointed CBE for this work. Gilmour was also voted No. - John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, CB (5 June 1883 - 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on many governments' fiscal policies. He advocated interventionist government policy, by which the government would use fiscal and monetary measures to mitigate the adverse effects of economic recessions, depressions and booms. - Steve Jones
Steve Jones is an English former professional footballer. Jones started his footballing career at non-league clubs Basildon United and then Billericay Town. He moved to West Ham United in November 1992 for £22,500, and made his first senior appearance for the East London club in a reserve fixture against Southampton on 17 November 1992. He made his first-team debut away to Cosenza in the Anglo-Italian Cup on 8 December 1992, … - Richard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE (born August 29 1923) is a English actor, director, producer, and entrepreneur. Attenborough has won an Academy Award, BAFTA and three Golden Globes. - F. R. Leavis
Frank Raymond Leavis CH (July 14, 1895 - April 14, 1978) was an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He taught and studied for nearly his entire life at Downing College, Cambridge. - Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John AO OBE (born 26 September 1948) is a Grammy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated English-born Australian pop singer, songwriter and actress of Welsh and German descent. Her highly acclaimed vocal musical and acting talents made her a globally recognized name. Olivia Newton-John is also a small business entrepreneur and an avid activist in ecological or environmental issues. - Jack Hobbs
Sir John Berry 'Jack' Hobbs (16 December 1882 - 21 December 1963) played cricket for Surrey and England. Renowned as a very modest and self-effacing man, he was popularly referred to as "The Master". He was the only English cricketer and the only opening batsman to be selected as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the (20th) Century. - Andrew Wright
Andrew Wright (born September 4, 1971) is a Canadian multimedia artist from Waterloo, Ontario. He is best known for his work with video and large-scale photography. - Simon McBurney
Simon Montagu McBurney (born August 25 1957) is an English actor and director. He is the founder of the UK-based theatre company Complicite, which performs throughout the world. McBurney most recently conceived and directed "A Disappearing Number" - "A new devised piece, taking as its inspiration the heartbreaking story of the collaboration between two of the 20th century's most remarkable pure mathematicians, Srinivasa Ramanujan, … - Frank P. Ramsey
Frank Plumpton Ramsey was a British mathematician who, in addition to mathematics, made significant contributions in philosophy and economics. - Bob Klose
Rado 'Bob' Klose (born 1944; sometimes referred to as Bob Close or Brian Close in various publications) is an English musician and photographer. He was one of the earliest members of the rock band Pink Floyd, playing lead guitar; however, he left the band before they recorded their first released single, "Arnold Layne". "The Abdabs" (also known as "The Screaming Abdabs"), with Roger Waters (lead guitar), Rick Wright (rhythm guitar), Nick Mason (drums), … - John Cheke
Sir John Cheke (16 June 1514-13 September 1557) was an English classical scholar and statesman, notable as the first Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University. The son of Peter Cheke, esquire-bedell of Cambridge University, he was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1529. While there he adopted the principles of the Reformation. His learning gained him an exhibition from the king, and in 1540, … - Thomas Hobson
Thomas Hobson, sometimes called "The Cambridge Carrier," is best known as the name behind the expression Hobson's choice. A carrier from Cambridge, England, Hobson delivered mail between London and Cambridge, operating a livery stable outside the gates of St Catharine's College. When they were not needed to deliver mail, Hobson's horses were rented to students and academic staff of the university. - Nigel Davenport
Nigel Davenport (born 23 May 1928) is an English actor. Born in Shelford, Cambridge, he grew up in an academic family. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Oxford, originally to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics but switching to English on the advice of his tutors. Davenport joined the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre in the 1960s. He began to appear in British film and television productions in supporting roles. - Michael Ramsey
Arthur Michael Ramsey, Baron Ramsey of Canterbury (14 Nov 1904 - 23 April 1988) was the one hundredth Archbishop of Canterbury. He was appointed on 31 May 1961, and was in office from June 1961 to 1974. Michael Ramsey was born in Cambridge, educated at Repton School (one of his tutors at Repton was his predecessor the 99th Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Francis Fisher) and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society. - Ronald Searle
Ronald William Fordham Searle (born March 3, 1920) is an English cartoonist. Searle trained at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, currently known as Anglia Ruskin University. He is the creator of, among other things, St Trinian's School and co-author (with Geoffrey Willans) of the Molesworth tetralogy. He was born in Cambridge, to parents Willie and Nellie (his father was a porter at Cambridge Railway Station), … - Matthew Bellamy
Matthew James Bellamy (born June 9, 1978 in Cambridge, England) is the lead singer, guitarist and pianist of rock group Muse, known for his falsetto voice and guitar playing ability - Charles Galton Darwin
Sir Charles Galton Darwin, KBE, MC, FRS (18 December 1887-13 December 1962) was the English physicist grandson of Charles Darwin, who served as director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the Second World War. - George Paget Thomson
Sir George Paget Thomson FRS (May 3, 1892 - September 10, 1975) was a Nobel-Prize-winning, English physicist who discovered the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. George Thomson was born in Cambridge, the son of Nobel Prize winning physicist J. J. Thomson and Rose Elisabeth Paget, the daughter of the Professor of Medicine at Cambridge. He went to The Perse School, Cambridge before going onto read mathematics and physics at Trinity College, Cambridge, … - Richard Cumberland
Richard Cumberland was an English dramatist and civil servant. He was born in the master's lodge of Trinity College, Cambridge, the great-grandson of the bishop of Peterborough; his father, Dr Denison Cumberland, became successively Bishop of Clonfert and of Kilmore. His mother was Joanna, youngest daughter of the great scholar Richard Bentley and the heroine of John Byrom's popular eclogue, "Cohn and Phoebe". - Douglas Hartree
Douglas Rayner Hartree PhD, FRS (March 27, 1897 – February 12, 1958) was an English mathematician and physicist most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to atomic physics. - G. A. Henty
George Alfred Henty (8 December, 1832 - 16 November , 1902), referred to as G. A. Henty, was a prolific English novelist, special correspondent, and Imperialist born in Trumpington, England. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. His works include "Out on the Pampas" (1871), "The Young Buglers" (1880), "With Clive in India" (1884) and "Wulf the Saxon" (1895). - William Whitehead
William Whitehead, was an English poet and playwright. He became Poet Laureate in 1757 after Thomas Gray declined the position. - Matthew Gill
Matthew Gill is a professional footballer with English Conference side Exeter City. Gill, a midfielder, began his career as a trainee with then league two side Peterborough United. On 25 April, 1998, during the 1997–98 season, Gill broke through into Peterborough's first team during a 3-1 loss to Torquay. In over seven years at Peterborough, Gill made 149 first team appearances, scoring 5 goals. - Nick Barraclough
Nick Barraclough (born 1951 in Cambridge) is a British disc jockey, who is best known for hosting shows related to Country and Western music. He can currently be heard on the Smooth Radio network, where he presents the station's Sunday evening "Smooth Country" programme, and was also the host of the long-running "Nick Barraclough's New Country" show for BBC Radio 2. - John Mickel
John Mickel (born January 28, 1971, in Cambridge, England), is a stock car racer. He has raced in ASCAR and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series with TorqueSpeed. Mickel, a second-generation driver, began racing at the age of ten in Mini Stocks and won his first championship two years later. He soon moved to Superstox where he was named both World and European champion. He joined the SCSA-Europe tour in its inaugural year in 2001, where he won the series' first championship. - Pete Atkin
Pete Atkin (born August 22 1945) is an British singer-songwriter and radio producer notable for his 1970s musical collaborations with Clive James and for producing the BBC Radio 4 series "This Sceptred Isle". - Christopher Cockerell
Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell (June 4, 1910 - June 1, 1999) was an English engineer, inventor of the hovercraft. Cockerell was born in Cambridge, England, where his father, Sir Sydney Cockerell, was curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, having previously been the secretary of William Morris. Christopher Cockerell was educated at Gresham's School, Holt. He then entered Cambridge University, England, as an undergraduate member of Peterhouse, … - Jenny Saville
Jenny Saville (born in Cambridge in 1970) is a contemporary English painter and one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). She is known for her monumental images of obese women, usually using herself as the model. - Edward Grim
Edward Grim was a clerk from Cambridge who was visiting Canterbury Cathedral on Tuesday 29 December 1170 when Thomas Becket was murdered. He subsequently researched and published a book, "Vita S. Thomae" (Life of Thomas Becket), published in about 1180, which is today known chiefly for a short section in which he gives an eyewitness account of the events in the Cathedral. He himself attempted to protect Becket, and sustained a serious arm wound in the attack. - Lee Roache
Lee Roache is a football striker playing for Cambridge City. He was signed from Barnet in the summer of 2006 being a product of their Youth Academy. He was given a professional contract in the summer of 2003. - Bill Cardoso
William J. (Bill) Cardoso (died February 26 2006) was an American journalist, best known as the coiner of the word gonzo. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and raised in Somerville, Massachusetts. He was the youngest of three brothers and had one daughter, Linda Cardoso. He studied journalism at Boston University and in 1967 he joined the "Boston Globe" and shortly thereafter became editor of the "Globe" Sunday magazine. - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (November 9, 1897 - June 7, 1978) was a British chemist. He was born in Cambridge and attended The Perse School. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967 along with Manfred Eigen and George Porter for their study of extremely fast chemical reactions. One of his accomplishments is the development of the Norrish reaction. - John Minton
Francis John Minton (25 December 1917-20 January 1957) was a British painter and illustrator of landscapes, portraits, and figures, as well as a theatrical designer. He was born in Cambridge. Minton was a boarder at Reading School from 1932 to 1935. He studied art at St John's Wood School of Art from 1935 to 1938, served in the war, but was demobbed in 1943, whereupon he worked full-time as a painter, illustrator, and teacher of art. - Patrick Hadley
Patrick Arthur Sheldon Hadley (5 March 1899-17 December 1973) was a British composer. - Robert Carpenter
Robert Pearson Carpenter (born 18 November, 1830 in Mill Road, Cambridge; died 14 July, 1901 in Cambridge) was a noted English cricketer and umpire. A right-handed batsman and occasional wicket-keeper, he played for Cambridgeshire during its brief period as a first-class county in the 1850s and 1860s, as well as for the United All-England Eleven. He umpired in two Tests between England and Australia in the 1880s. - Steve Flack
Steve Flack is an English footballer, most recently with Exeter City, where he spent 10 years, a long time by lower league standards. Born in Cambridge, he joined the club from Cardiff City in 1996 and was formerly a professional boxer before starting his playing career with Foxton and then Cambridge City. He then joined Cardiff in 1995 before linking up with the Grecians for £10,000 in 1996. During his time at St. James Park, he has been chased by numerous clubs, … - Mark Finch
Mark Finch (21 October 1961 -14 January 1995) was an English promoter of GLBT cinema. Having founded and expanded several international film festivals he created the first GLBT film market for distributors, sales agents, and independent film producers. - Barry Pain
Barry Eric Odell Pain was an English journalist, poet and writer. Born in Cambridge, and educated at the university, he became a prominent contributor to "The Granta". He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories. In 1889, "Cornhill Magazine"'s editor, James Payn, published his story "The Hundred Gates", and shortly afterwards Pain became a contributor to "Punch" and "The Speaker", …
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