Christ’s commitment to free-thinking and high-achieving across many disciplines and interests has generated a range of graduates who have made major and varied contributions to the intellectual, social, artistic and sporting life of the world. Click below to find out more about some of these remarkable Christ’s people. (This list is a work-in-progress and should by no means be considered exhaustive. )

 
Politics & Government

Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509) - Foundress and Mother of the Tudor dynasty
Jan Smuts (1870-1950) - Founding influence on League of Nations (UN) and Chancellor of the University
Earl Mountbatten of
Burma (1900-1979) - Supreme Commander South East Asia and Viceroy of India
Charles (CP) Snow (1905-1980) Novelist and civil servant

Law

Baron Patrick Devlin (1905 - 1992) Lawyer, Judge, Jurist, Law Lord and life peer
Lord Irvine of Lairg (1940 -) Former Lord Chancellor
Lord Moore-Bick (1946-) Lord Justice of Appeal
Sir Patrick Coghlin (1945-) Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland

History

John Leland (c.1506-1552) - Father of English history
Professor Sir John Plumb (1911 - 2001) Historian
Professor J. P. Kenyon (1927 - 1996) Historian
Simon Schama (1945- ) Historian and broadcaster
Professor Roy Porter (1946-2002) Historian
Linda Colley (1949-) Historian
David Cannadine (1950-) Historian and broadcaster

The Arts

John Milton (1608-1674) Poet
Auguste Bréal (1869-1941) Painter
Anthony Caro (1924- ) Sculptor
Colin Dexter (1930- ) Writer of the Inspector Morse series of books
Jeffrey Tate (1943- ) Conductor
Dee Ferris - Artist
Annilese Miskimmon (1974- ) Opera director
Nicholas Serota (1946- ) Director of the Tate Gallery
Charles Saumarez Smith (1954-) Historian
Phillip King (1934-) Sculptor
James Hilton (1900-1954) Novelist
Adetomiwa Edun (1984 -) Actor

Media & Television

Richard Whiteley (1943-2005) Television presenter 
Duncan Kenworthy (1949-) Director and producer
Jasmine Birtles (1962-) TV Presenter, commentator, journalist
Andy Parsons (1967-) Comedian
Miles Millar (1967-) Screenwriter, producer
Sacha Baron Cohen (1971- ) Satirist and actor
Gautam Malkani (1976- ) Journalist and prize-winning novelist
Sathnam Sanghera (1976- ) Journalist and novelist
Natalie Haynes (1974- ) Comedian
James Reynolds (1974 - ) BBC Correspondent Iran
John Oliver (1977-) Comedian

Science

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Alfred Cort Haddon (1855-1940) - Father of modern anthropology
Francis (Tibby)
Marshall (1878-1949) - Father of reproduction  
Anne McLaren (1927-2007) - Scientist and quiet revolutionary
Yusuf Hamied (1936- ) Chemist and industrialist
Lord Todd (1907-1997) Nobel Laureate, chemist and 32nd Master of Christ's
Jagadis Chandra Bose (1858-1937) - Pioneer of electro- magnetic waves
Martin Evans (1941- ) Nobel Laureate
Conrad Hal Waddington (1905-1975) - Developmental biologist and geneticist
John Clark (1951-2004) - Pioneer of the genetic modification of livestock
Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) - Father of the Atomic Bomb and radical activist

Business and Economics

Martin Sorrell (1945- ) Business leader

James Meade (1907-1995) - British economist and Nobel Prize winner

Theology & Religion

William Paley (1743-1805) - Creationist author of 'Natural Theology' which contains a very early presentation of the watchmaker analogy
Rowan Williams (1950- ) 104th Archbishop of Canterbury

Sports

Tony Lewis (1938-) Former England Cricket Captain
Ian Anthony Balding (1938-) Racehorse trainer
Ian Robertson (1945-) Rugby commentator
Steve Palmer (1968-) Footballer
Kieran West (1977-) Olympic Gold medallist

Gilbert Jessop (1896-1955)