1. Politics, military, and the civil service
    United Kingdom  Current Members of Parliament  Current Members of the House of Lords  Prime Ministers  International  Military and colonial administrators 

2. Justice

3. Science, mathematics, and technology
     Medicine   Nobel Prize winners  Royal Medal winners 

4. Arts and literature
    Poets  Musicians 

5. Religion
    Roman Catholic cardinals, saints and martyrs  Anglican archbishops 

6. Academics

7. Sports and entertainment

8. Miscellaneous

9. References

The following is a list of notable people educated at St John's College, Cambridge. When available, years of attendance are provided as indicated in the College Register or in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Over 1000 former members of St John's College appear in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.^[1]

Politics, military, and the civil service

United Kingdom

• John Aislabie, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1718–21
• Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I and advisor to Edward VI and Mary I
• Sir Bryan Cartledge, British Ambassador to the USSR, 1985–88
• Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, Secretary of State, 1642–43
• Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Lord High Treasurer, 1608–12, Secretary of State, 1590–12
• William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Lord High Treasurer, 1572–98, and chief advisor to Elizabeth I
• John Cheke, Secretary of State, 1553
• Thomas Clarkson, abolitionist and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire
• Sir Percy Cradock, British Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, 1978–83
• John Duncombe, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1672–76
• Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto, Lord Privy Seal, 1846–52, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835–1841
• Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1841–44
• Sir Percy James Grigg, Secretary of State for War, 1942–45
• Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal, 1672–84
• Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, Lord High Treasurer, 1614–18
• Sir Robin McLaren, British Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, 1991–94
• Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet, Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1855
• Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper, 1682–85
• Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, Speaker of the House of Commons, 1770–80
• Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1829–30, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1840–47
• Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1804-5
• Richard Ryder, Home Secretary, 1809–12
• Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, Lord High Treasurer, 1599–1608
• Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Privy Seal, 1842–46
• Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1812–22
• Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath, Secretary of State, 1768–70 & 1775–79 (South), 1768 & 1779 (North)
• James Vernon, Secretary of State 1697–1700 (North) and 1700–02 (South)
• Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, Secretary of State 1699–1700 (South)
• George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1853–58, 1865–66, 1868–70
• Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, leading advisor to Charles I, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1633–41
• William Wilberforce, Member of Parliament and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade
• Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, Lord High Treasurer, 1660–67
• Charles Philip Yorke, Home Secretary, 1803–04, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1810–12

Current Members of Parliament

• Richard Burgon
• Nigel Dodds, Deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party
• Ben Gummer
• Robert Jenrick

Current Members of the House of Lords

• John Browne
• Peter Hennessy
• David Hope
• Mervyn King
• Robert Mair (fellow)
• Colin Renfrew
• David Rowe-Beddoe
• Larry Whitty

Prime Ministers

• Sir Francis Bell, Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1925
• Alfred Domett, Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1862–63
• George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1852–55
• F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1827–28
• Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, 2004–2014
• Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1855–58 & 1859–65
• Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (briefly admitted), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1765–66 & 1782^[2]

International

• Sir James Allen, Finance Minister of New Zealand, 1912–15
• Fra' Matthew Festing, Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, 2008–
• Yoshirō Fujimura, Japanese Minister of Communications, 1924, Director of Mitsui & Co.
• Akhter Husain, Governor of West Pakistan, 1957–60
• Suematsu Kenchō, Japanese Minister of Home Affairs, 1900–01
• Nawab Mohammad Ismail Khan, President of the All-India Muslim League, 1930–47
• Sir Henry Lee Hau Shik, first Finance Minister of Malaysia, 1957–59

Military and colonial administrators

• William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, general and major supporter of Charles I in the English Civil War
• John Cradock, 1st Baron Howden, General, Governor of the Cape Colony, 1811–14
• Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, parliamentary general and commander-in-chief in the English Civil War
• Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, Governor of Cyprus, 1957–60, and Governor of Jamaica, 1951–57
• Sir Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux, Governor of Saint Helena, 1912–20, and Governor of Uganda, 1910–11
• Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael, Governor of Victoria, 1908–11
• Sir Denzil Ibbetson, Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, 1907–08
• Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, Governor-General of India, 1842–44
• Sir Roger Palin, Air Chief Marshal
• Sir James Peiris, first native Governor of Ceylon (acting), 1929
• Richard Penn, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, 1771–73
• Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland, Admiral, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1852
• Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, Admiral of the Fleet, Lord High Admiral, 1638–43
• Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland, Lieutenant-General during the American Revolutionary War
• Sir Andrew Ridgway, Lieutenant-General, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey, 2006–11
• Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn, Field Marshal
• Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford, Admiral of the Fleet, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1694–99, 1709–10, and 1714–17
• Sir Fraser Russell, Governor of Southern Rhodesia, 1934–35, 1942, and 1946
• Sir Thomas Snow, Lieutenant-General during WWI
• George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, Field Marshal, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1767–72

Justice

• Edmund Anderson, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1583–1605
• Stanley Berwin, one of the leading lawyers of the second half of the 20th century
• Robert Booth, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, 1679–80
• Sir Codrington Edmund Carrington, 1st Chief Justice of Ceylon, 1801–06
• Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman, Lord Chief Justice of England, 1832–50
• Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee (1899–1981), advocate in Bombay High Court, 1st Indian ambassador to Egypt, Vice-Chancellor of University of Jammu and Kashmir
• Edward Marshall Hall, Victorian era barrister known as "The Great Defender"
• Robert Heath, Lord Chief Justice of England, 1642–45
• Ahmad Mohamed Ibrahim, Attorney-General of Singapore, 1965–67
• William Martin, Chief Justice of New Zealand, 1841–57
• Maharaj Nagendra Singh, President of the International Court of Justice, 1985–88
• Wee Chong Jin, Chief Justice of Singapore, 1963–90
• Glanville Williams, Q.C. LL.D. F.B.A. described in 1997 by the New York Times as the greatest lawyer of the 20th century
• Humphrey Winch, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, 1608–11
• Walter Woon, Attorney-General of Singapore, 2008–10

Science, mathematics, and technology

• Chris Abel, Professor of Biological Chemistry at Cambridge
• John Couch Adams, mathematician and discoverer of Neptune
• Bernard Armitage, fellow of the College and psychiatrist
• George Barnard, statistician known for his work on the foundations of statistics
• Henry Briggs, mathematician
• Sir David Cox, prominent statistician
• Sir Samuel Curran, physicist, inventor of the scintillation counter and proportional counter, and founder of Strathclyde University
• John Dee, mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I
• Eric Denton, marine biologist
• Fearon Fallows, astronomer
• Thomas Fink, physicist and author
• Steve Furber, computer scientist
• William Gilbert, physician and natural philosopher, discoverer of the Earth's magnetic field and inventor of the word 'electricity'
• Johannes de Villiers Graaff, economist
• William Gregor, discoverer of titanium
• William D. Hamilton, evolutionary biologist who formalised the concept of kin selection
• David Harvey, Marxist geographer, social scientist
• William Heberden, British physician, gave the first clinical description (1768) of angina pectoris and demonstrated that chicken pox was different from smallpox
• John Herschel, prominent mathematician and astronomer who coined the word "photography"
• W. E. Hick, pioneer of cognitive science and discoverer of Hick's law
• Robert Hinde, Professor of Zoology, and former Master of St. John's
• Sir Fred Hoyle, pioneering but controversial cosmologist who first used the term 'Big Bang'
• James Jago, scientist and physician
• Sir Harold Jeffreys, applied mathematician and geophysicist
• Joseph Larmor, mathematician and physicist
• Louis Leakey, archaeologist and naturalist credited with the discovery of Homo habilis
• John Marrack, immunologist
• Alfred Marshall, economist
• Louis J. Mordell, mathematician
• Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine
• Rudolf Peierls, physicist
• Sir Roger Penrose, mathematical physicist and philosopher
• Cedric Price, architect
• Richard A. Proctor, astronomer
• Richard Samworth, statistician
• Vikram Sarabhai, father of the Indian space programme
• David Stoddart OBE, biogeographer
• James Joseph Sylvester, mathematician
• Brook Taylor, mathematician
• Sir Maurice Wilkes, one of the founding fathers of modern computer science, and inventor of the first stored program digital computer
• John Tuzo Wilson, geophysicist and geologist who achieved worldwide acclaim for his contributions to the theory of plate tectonics

Medicine

• Michael Haynes Bennett, FRCPATH, consultant histopathologist at Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood from 1964-1989. Born in Wigan in 1928, he studied medicine at St John's College Cambridge and Westminster Hospital (MB, BChir 1952). Chairman of the pathology panel of the British national lymphoma investigation from 1970 - 1989.

Nobel Prize winners

• Sir Edward Appleton, winner of the Nobel prize for Physics, for discovering the Appleton layer
• Sir John Cockcroft KCB, Nobel prize-winning physicist who first split the atom
• Allan Cormack, Nobel laureate in Medicine or Physiology for the invention of the CAT scan
• Paul Dirac, Nobel laureate in Physics and one of the founders of Quantum Mechanics
• Sir Nevill Francis Mott, awarded Nobel prize for Physics for work on the behaviour of electrons in magnetic solids
• Abdus Salam, Nobel laureate in Physics, for unifying the electromagnetic force and the weak force
• Frederick Sanger, molecular biologist and one of only four double Nobel Prize winners
• Maurice Wilkins, awarded Nobel prize for Medicine or Physiology with Watson and Crick for discovering the structure of DNA

Royal Medal winners

Three Royal Medals, known also as the Queen's Medals, are awarded annually by the Sovereign upon the recommendation of the Council of the Royal Society, "two for the most important contributions to the advancement of Natural Knowledge (one in the physical and one in the biological sciences) and the other for distinguished contributions in the applied sciences". The first Royal Medal was awarded in 1826 and previous recipients include thirty-eight Johnians.

Arts and literature

• Douglas Adams, author
• John Andrews, crime and antiques writer
• Sir Cecil Beaton, renowned photographer, Academy Award winner, and one of the Bright Young Things
• Patrick Brontë, father of the Brontë sisters
• Samuel Butler, author
• Sir Hugh Casson, president of the Royal Academy of Arts, 1974–84
• Louis Cha, Chinese novelist and newspaper editor
• Jennifer Egan, author, winner of 2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
• Colin Gardner, film and media studies theorist, professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara
• John Gardner, author
• Andrew Gilligan, controversial journalist
• Robert Greene, arguably the first professional English author of plays, poems and novels
• Thomas Nashe, pamphleteer, satirist and playwright
• Frederic Raphael, screenwriter, novelist and journalist
• Frederic Raphael, received Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, 1965
• Tom Rob Smith, award nominee author of Soviet-era novels; erstwhile writer for Channel 5's defunct soap opera Family Affairs
• Robert Stevenson, nominated for Academy Award for Best Director, 1964
• Paul Sussman, author, archaeologist and journalist
• Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, patron of William Shakespeare

Poets

• William Barnes, poet
• Edward Benlowes, poet
• Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet, poet
• Erasmus Darwin, poet and abolitionist
• Richard Eberhart, poet, winner of 1966 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, United States Poet Laureate, 1969-61
• John Hall, poet
• Robert Herrick, author of renowned poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
• William Mason, poet
• Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, courtier and poet, subject of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship
• William Wordsworth, major English Romantic poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, 1843–50
• T. E. Hulme, poet
• Thomas Wyatt, courtier and poet

Musicians

• William Sterndale Bennett, 19th-century composer
• Andrew Carwood, Director of Music St Paul's Cathedral (2007), tenor and conductor
• Christopher Gabbitas, singer
• Andrew Gant, chorister and composer
• Harry Gregson-Williams, film score composer and Golden Globe nominee
• Rupert Gregson-Williams, film score composer and recipient of the European Film composer award
• George Guest, Welsh choral conductor, college organist 1951–91
• Herbert Howells, English composer, college organist
• Geoffrey Paterson, conductor, college organist
• John Scott, LVO, English organist, organ scholar 1974–78, organist of St Paul's 1990–2004

Religion

• Thomas Gilbank Ackland, clergyman and domestic chaplain to the Duke of York
• Haslefoot Bridges, Puritan minister
• William Cassels, missionary and member of the Cambridge Seven
• D'Ewes Coke, clergyman and colliery master
• John Colenso, Bishop of Natal, 1853–83
• Edmund Hickeringill, churchman
• William Higton, clergyman and philanthropist
• William Jowett, missionary
• Thomas Cooper Makinson, missionary, seceded to the Church of Rome, 1809–1893
• Henry Martyn, missionary to India and Persia
• William Morgan, Bishop of Llandaff and Bishop of St Asaph; Welsh Bible translator
• Titus Oates, chaplain who fabricated the "Popish Plot"
• Edmund Prys, Welsh Bible translator and clergyman
• Herbert Reeve (1868–1956), clergyman and missionary
• Edward Stillingfleet, British theologian and scholar
• John Thomlinson, clergyman and diarist
• Richard Vaughan, Bishop of Bangor 1595–97, Bishop of Chester 1597–1604, Bishop of London 1604–07
• Brough Maltby, Archdeacon of Nottingham from 1878 to 1894

Roman Catholic cardinals, saints and martyrs

• Saint John Fisher (Fellow and Founder), martyr and cardinal
• Saint Richard Gwyn, martyr
• Saint Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, martyr
• Philip Howard, cardinal
• William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford, martyr

Anglican archbishops

• Richard Boyle, Archbishop of Tuam, 1638–45
• Peter Carnley, Primate of Australia 2000–05, Archbishop of Perth 1981–2005
• Lowther Clarke, Archbishop of Melbourne, 1905–20
• Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1974–1980
• John Cradock, Archbishop of Dublin, 1772–78
• Harrington Lees, Archbishop of Melbourne, 1921–29
• Richard Neile, Archbishop of York, 1631–40
• Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, 1577–88
• George Selwyn, Primate and 1st bishop of New Zealand, 1841–67
• Gerald Sharp, Archbishop of Brisbane, 1921–33
• William Stuart, Archbishop of Armagh, 1800–22
• Frank Whittaker, Bishop - in - Medak, 1947–1960
• John Williams, Archbishop of York, 1641–50, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, 1621–25

Academics

• Gregory Bateson, anthropologist
• Owen Chadwick, church historian, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 1969–71
• Kikuchi Dairoku, Japanese Minister of Education, 1901-3, President of Tokyo University, 1898-01, and Kyoto University, 1908–12
• David Denison, professor of linguistics
• Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell University, 1921–37
• Sir Vivian Fuchs, President of the Royal Geographical Society
• Charles Sydney Gibbes, English tutor of Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia
• Andrew D. Hamilton, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 2009–15, President of New York University, 2016–
• William Richard Hamilton, President of the Royal Geographical Society
• Peter Hennessy, English historian of government
• John Stevens Henslow English clergyman, botanist and geologist
• Sir Harry Hinsley, historian and World War II codebreaker
• Frank Horton, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London 1939–45
• Edward Latymer, founder of Latymer Upper School and The Latymer School
• Sir Donald MacAlister, physician and chancellor of the University of Glasgow
• Richard Cockburn Maclaurin, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1909–20
• Tshilidzi Marwala, engineer, businessman and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg
• Sir Peter Noble, Principal of King's College London 1952–1968
• E. J. Rapson, numismatist and professor of Sanskrit (1906–36) at the University of Cambridge
• Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston, 1st Baronet, President of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1918–20
• Max Rosenheim, President of the Royal College of Physicians, 1966–71
• Thomas Sutton, founder of Charterhouse School and one of 16th-century England's wealthiest individuals
• Stephen Sykes, theologian, former Dean of St John's and Bishop of Ely, and principal of St John's College, Durham
• Frank Thistlethwaite, Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia (1961–1980)
• Sir Thomas Watson, 1st Baronet, President of the Royal College of Physicians, 1862–66
• Sir James Wordie, President of the Royal Geographical Society

Sports and entertainment

• Rob Andrew, England rugby footballer
• Jamie Bamber, actor
• Chris Brasher, Olympic gold medallist runner, founder of the London Marathon
• Mike Brearley, cricketer, England Captain
• Sir John Clements, actor and theatrical producer
• Paul Dempsey, TV presenter
• Hugh Dennis, actor, comedian
• Sir Derek Jacobi, actor
• Logie Bruce Lockhart, Scotland rugby footballer
• Jonathan Miller, physician, theatre and opera director, television presenter
• Sid Waddell, darts commentator

Miscellaneous

• Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (honorary degree)
• John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley, CEO of BP, 1995–2007
• Damon Buffini, former head of private equity firm Permira
• Mark Coombs, billionaire and CEO of Ashmore Group^[8]
• Sir Harpal Kumar, CEO of Cancer Research UK
• Dame Louise Makin, CEO of BTG plc, 2004–present
• Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, 1998–2001
• Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, ninth richest man in the world upon his death in 2006
• Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (affiliated)

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• Ability of computers to function by interpreting body language
• Ability segregation
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• Abiliy
• Abillammaa
• Abillammaa, Eddy
• A Billion Girls
• A Billion Hits
• A Bill of Divorcement
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• A Bill of Divorcement (1940 film)
• A Bill of Divorcement (disambiguation)
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