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Alumni of King's College, Cambridge

  • Ian MacDonaldIan MacCormick entered the world on the 3rd of October 1948 in London. He attended Dulwich College before moving to King's College, Cambridge.
  • Salman RushdieSir Ahmed Salman Rushdie entered the world on the 19th of June 1947 in Bombay. This city was then part of British India and is now known as Mumbai within…
  • Rana MitterRana Shantashil Rajyeswar Mitter arrived in the world on the 11th of August 1969. He was born in Cambridge while his parents worked as academics near…
  • Henry Stephens SaltHenry Shakespear Stephens Salt was born on the 20th of September 1851 in Naini Tal, British India, and by the time he died at Brighton Municipal Hospital on…
  • Alan TuringAlan Turing once chained his tea mug to a radiator pipe at Bletchley Park so it could not be stolen. In the first week of every June he cycled to the office…
  • Oliver Hart (economist)Oliver Simon D'Arcy Hart entered the world on the 9th of October 1948. He was born in Britain to parents who both worked in medicine.
  • George SteevensGeorge Steevens entered the world at Poplar on the 10th of May 1736. His father served as a captain and later became a director of the East India Company.
  • Geoffrey HintonGeoffrey Everest Hinton was born on the 6th of December 1947 in Wimbledon, England. He attended Clifton College in Bristol before matriculating at King's…
  • Richard MarquandRichard Alfred Marquand entered the world on the 22nd of September 1937 in Llanishen, Cardiff. His father Hilary Marquand served as Minister of Health under…
  • Eric HobsbawmEric Hobsbawm entered the world on the 9th of June 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt. His father Leopold Percy Hobsbaum was a Jewish merchant from London's East End…
  • John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes entered the world on the 5th of June 1883 in Cambridge, England. His father John Neville Keynes worked as an economist and lecturer at…
  • Peter TrudgillPeter Trudgill arrived in the world on the 7th of November 1943. He grew up in Thorpe St Andrew, a district just outside Norwich, England.