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List of University of Cambridge people

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The following persons attended the University of Cambridge but did not necessarily complete a degree course there.

The list of alumni has been divided into categories, but it should be noted that these categories are somewhat arbitrary, and that many of the university's alumni have been polymaths, in these cases an attempt has been made to put them in the category for which they were most famous.

Politics/Royalty

Kings and Queens

Princes

Lord Protector

Presidents and Prime Ministers (international)

Prime Ministers (Great Britain)

Signatories of the American Declaration of Independence

Soviet spies

Other political figures

Clergy and religious leaders

Novelists, playwrights, memoirists and critics

Poets

Actors, directors, comedians and musicians

Scientists, technologists and mathematicians

See also List of all Nobel Prize winners from Cambridge University

Philosophers

Artists and Architects

Educationalists

Economists

Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders

Historians

Journalists and TV personalities

Sportsmen and women