University of Cambridge

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University coat of arms

The University of Cambridge, located in the City of Cambridge, is the second-oldest university in the United Kingdom, having been founded in 1209. It is made up of a number of self-governing colleges and other institutions, and has a worldwide reputation, particularly in the fields of mathematics and science.

LGBT history

The Apostles, or The Society, is an exclusive club for students at Cambridge.

Notable alumni and academics

Christ's College

• Rowan Williams

Clare College

• Peter Ackroyd
• John Hervey
• Matthew Parris
• Siegfried Sassoon
• Patrick Trevor-Roper

Corpus Christi College

• Terence Etherton
• Christopher Isherwood
• Christopher Marlowe
• Michael Steed

Fitzwilliam College

• David Starkey

Girton College

• Sandi Toksvig

Gonville and Caius College

• Simon Milton
• Titus Oates
• Simon Russell Beale

Jesus College

• Michael Arditti

King's College

See King's College, Cambridge

Magdalene College

• Antony Grey
• George Ives
• Rowan Williams (Master)

New Hall

(now Murray Edwards College)

• Sue Perkins
• Tilda Swinton

Newnham College

• Clare Balding
• Miriam Margolyes

Pembroke College

• Humphry Berkeley
• Clive Betts
• A E Dyson

Peterhouse

• Guy Black, Baron Black of Brentwood
• Michael Portillo

Queens College

• Stephen Fry
• T H White

Selwyn College

• Wes Streeting
• Stephen Wall
• Sophie Wilson

St Catharine's College

• Ian McKellen

St John's College

• John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley
• Derek Jacobi

Trinity College

• Francis Bacon (philosopher)
• Anthony Blunt
• Guy Burgess
• John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
• Viscount Esher
• James Elroy Flecker
• Lord Ronald Gower
• Jim Herrick
• Peter Mitchell
• Isaac Newton
• Tamsin Omond
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Justin Welby
• John Wilkins (Master)

Trinity Hall

• Edward Carpenter
• Nicholas Hytner
• David Isaac
• Adam Mars-Jones