- Alexander Cambridge 1st Earl of Athlone
Major General Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS, born Prince Alexander of Teck (14 April 1874-16 January 1957), was a member of the British Royal Family, the younger brother of Queen Mary. He held the titles of a Prince of Teck in the Kingdom of Württemberg until 1917, when he relinquished his German titles and assumed the name Cambridge and was created Earl of Athlone. - Margaret Cambridge Marchioness of Cambridge
Margaret Evelyn Cambridge, Marchioness of Cambridge (8 April 1873-27 March 1929), was the sixth child and third daughter of the 1st Duke of Westminster and the wife of the 1st Marquess of Cambridge. She was known before her marriage as Lady Margaret Grosvenor, and after it she was also known as Princess Adolphus of Teck and later The Duchess of Teck. - Rupert Cambridge Viscount Trematon
Rupert Alexander George Cambridge, born Prince Rupert of Teck, (24 April 1907-15 April 1928) was a member of the British Royal Family, a great grandson of Queen Victoria. During World War I, the British Royal Family relinquished their Germanic titles, and Prince Rupert assumed the style Viscount Trematon in 1917. - Adolphus Cambridge 1st Marquess of Cambridge
Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, GCB, GCVO, CMG (Adolphus Charles Alexander Albert Edward George Philip Louis Ladislaus), born Prince Adolphus of Teck and later The Duke of Teck (13 August 1868 - 23 October 1927), was a member of the British Royal Family and a younger brother of Queen Mary, the consort of King George V. In 1900, he succeeded his father as Duke of Teck in the Kingdom of Württemberg. - George Cambridge 2nd Marquess of Cambridge
George Francis Hugh Cambridge, 2nd Marquess of Cambridge GCVO (11 October, 1895 - 16 April, 1981) born Prince George of Teck, and known as Earl of Eltham from 1917 to 1927, was a descendant of the British Royal Family. He was the elder son of the 1st Marquess of Cambridge, formerly the Duke of Teck, and his wife, the former Lady Margaret Evelyn Grosvenor. - Ada Cambridge
Ada Cambridge (November 21 1844 - July 19 1926), later known as Ada Cross, was an English born Australian writer. While she gained recognition as Australia's first woman poet of note, her longer term reputation rests on her novels. Overall she wrote more than twenty-five works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works. Many of her novels were serialised in Australian newspapers, and were never published in book form. - Stoo Cambridge
Stuart "Stoo" Cambridge (born 6 September, 1969 in Barking, Essex, UK) is a British computer game designer and artist, and former member of hit Britsoft developer Sensible Software. - Augusta Of Cambridge
Princess Augusta of Cambridge, was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of George III. She married into the Grand Ducal House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and became the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. - Delroy Cambridge
Delroy Cambridge is a Jamaican golfer. He was born on 12 November 1949 and turned professional in 1971. He has spent many years in the United States, where he worked as an assistant professional at Sunningdale Country Club in Scarsdale, New York and played in local and regional events in the New York region. He is more notable for his achievements in senior (over 50) golf. - Daniel Cambridge
Daniel Cambridge VC (1820 - 1882) born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland, was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 35 years old and a Bombardier in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, British Army when he carried out the actions during the Crimean War for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. - Dexter Cambridge
Dexter Ryan Cambridge (born January 29 1970 in Eleuthra, Bahamas) is a Bahamian professional basketball player. He had a brief career in the National Basketball Association in early 1993 when he played for the Dallas Mavericks. Cambridge attended American institutions Lon Morris Junior College (in Jacksonville, Florida) and the University of Texas. - Princess Mary Adelaide Of Cambridge
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina Elizabeth; 27 November 1833 - 27 October 1897) was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of George III. She later held the title of Duchess of Teck by marriage. Mary Adelaide is remembered as the mother of Queen Mary, the consort of George V. She was one of the first Royals to patronise a wide range of charities. - Lord Frederick Cambridge
Lord Frederick Cambridge (born Prince Frederick of Teck) (23 September 1907-30 May1940) was a descendant of the British Royal Family. He was the younger son of the Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, formerly the Duke of Teck, and a a nephew of Queen Queen Mary, the consort of King George V. - Godfrey Cambridge
Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge (February 26, 1933 - November 29, 1976) was an American comedian and actor, who was especially popular in the late 1960s and early 1970's as a regular guest on "The Merv Griffin Show" and other talk shows. He had originally received a scholarship to study medicine but opted for an acting career instead. Memorable film roles include "Watermelon Man", where he plays the lead character, … - Guglielmo Verdirame
Guglielmo Verdirame (born 1974 in Reggio di Calabria, Italy) is a university lecturer in law at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He is a leading expert on UN accountability issues and on refugee law. Before coming to Cambridge, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford between 2000-2003. He holds a Ph.D. in law from the London School of Economics, where he studied with Christine Chinkin, … - Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson (born April 15, 1959) is an Emmy-, BAFTA- and Academy Award-winning English actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She is also a patron of the Refugee Council. - 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. - Norman Podhoretz
Norman Podhoretz (b. Brooklyn, New York, January 16, 1930) is son of a Jewish immigrant from the Central European region of Galicia who was raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a low-income neighborhood in racial transition. Podhoretz's family was left-wing, with his elder sister joining a socialist youth movement. Podhoretz received bachelor's degrees from both Columbia University-where he studied under Lionel Trilling-and the Jewish Theological Seminary. - Gerald Davies
Thomas Gerald Reames Davies CBE (born 7 February, 1945 in Llansaint) is one of the acknowledged giants of Welsh rugby, playing for the side between 1966 and 1978. Davies studied at Loughborough University and the University of Cambridge and played club rugby for Cardiff RFC and London Welsh. He captained Cardiff for three seasons in the 1970s, … - Sarah Coakley
Sarah Coakley is an Anglican systematic theologian. Her training was at New Hall, Cambridge and Harvard Divinity School; her Ph.D. is from the University of Cambridge. She has taught in the United Kingdom at Lancaster University and the University of Oxford. Since 1993, she has taught at Harvard Divinity School, serving as the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr., Professor of Divinity since 1995. - Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes, and his popular works in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general. - Charles Henry Cooper
Charles Henry Cooper (March 201808-March 21 1866) was an English antiquarian. Born at Marlow, Buckinghamshire, he was descended from a family formerly of Bray in Berkshire. He was privately educated in Reading. In 1826 he settled in Cambridge, and in 1836 was elected coroner of the borough. Four years later he qualified as a solicitor, and in time acquired an extensive practice, … - Manmohan Singh
Dr. Manmohan Singh is the 17<sup>th</sup> and current Prime Minister of India. Dr. Singh is a member of the Indian National Congress party and became the first Sikh to become Prime Minister of India on May 22, 2004. He is arguably the most educated Indian Prime Minister in history. He is considered one of the most qualified and influential figures in India's recent history, … - Nicholas Kaldor
Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor (Budapest, 12 May 1908 - Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire, 30 September 1986) was one of the foremost Cambridge economists in the post-war period. He developed the famous "compensation" criteria called Kaldor-Hicks efficiency for welfare comparisons (1939). Furthermore, he derived the famous cobweb model. Kaldor was educated in Budapest, Berlin, and at the London School of Economics, where he subsequently became a lecturer. - William Brewster
Elder William Brewster (c. 1566-10 April 1644), was a Pilgrim colonist leader and preacher who came from Scrooby, in north Nottinghamshire and reached what became the Plymouth Colony in the "Mayflower" in 1620. He is generally considered to be the most famous of the pilgrims. He was accompanied by his wife, Mary Brewster, and his sons, Love Brewster and Wrestling Brewster. - 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), … - 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. - 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 - 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. - Shaun Woodward
Shaun Anthony Woodward MP (born 26 October 1958, Bristol) is a British politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Labour Member of Parliament for St Helens South. - 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, … - Frank P. Ramsey
Frank Plumpton Ramsey was a British mathematician who, in addition to mathematics, made significant contributions in philosophy and economics. - 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", … - 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. - 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 D. Barrow
John David Barrow FRS (born November 29, 1952, London) is an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician. He is currently Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Barrow is also a writer of popular science and an amateur playwright. Barrow obtained his first degree in Mathematics and physics from Van Mildert College at the University of Durham in 1974. - 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. - Lee Hsien Loong
Lee Hsien Loong (born February 10 1952) is the third and current Prime Minister of Singapore. He also serves as the Minister for Finance. Lee Hsien Loong is the eldest son of Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and is married to Ho Ching, who is the Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the government-owned Temasek Holdings. - 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. - 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, …
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