Curated category
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 RushdieSalman Rushdie was born on the 19th of June 1947 in Bombay, in British India, into a world on the verge of shattering and remaking itself.
- Rana MitterRana Mitter was born in Cambridge on the 11th of August 1969, into a household where scholarship was the family trade. His father, Partha Mitter, taught art…
- 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 Hart walked into a courtroom not to give testimony about a crime, but to explain what it means to truly own something.
- George SteevensGeorge Steevens walked from Hampstead to London every morning before seven o'clock. Every day, he made his rounds of the booksellers' shops, talked…
- Geoffrey HintonGeoffrey Hinton spent decades trying to convince the scientific world that the brain's approach to learning was the right model for machines.
- Richard MarquandRichard Marquand died on the 4th of September 1987, five days after a stroke felled him at his home in Penshurst. He was 49.
- Eric HobsbawmEric John Ernest Hobsbawm was born on the 9th of June 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt, and he died on the 1st of October 2012 in London, just shy of his 96th…
- John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge on the 5th of June 1883, the son of an economist father and a mother who would go on to become her town's second…
- Peter TrudgillPeter Trudgill was born on the 7th of November 1943 in Norwich, England, and grew up in the nearby area of Thorpe St Andrew.