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Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge
- John Hall (physician)John Hall was born in 1575 and died on the 25th of November 1635. He spent most of those six decades working as a physician in a small English market town.
- Charles Villiers StanfordCharles Villiers Stanford was born in Dublin on the 30th of September 1852, into a family where music was not a hobby but a way of life.
- ErasmusDesiderius Erasmus woke before dawn, ink already on his fingers, and on a busy day he wrote or answered as many as forty letters in his own hand.
- Thomas DiggesThomas Digges described the outermost universe as "the palace of felicity garnished with perpetual shining glorious lights innumerable, far excelling our sun…
- Alexander AlesAlexander Ales was born in Edinburgh on the 23rd of April 1500, and he spent the first decades of his life as a dedicated enemy of everything he would later…
- Demis HassabisDemis Hassabis was born Dimitrios Hassapis on the 27th of July 1976, and his very surname carries a story. The original name, Hassapis, means “butcher” in…
- Jeremy Black (historian)Jeremy Black was born on the 30th of October 1955. He would go on to publish more history books than most scholars manage to read in a lifetime.
- Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of OxfordEdward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was born on the 12th of April 1550 at Hedingham Castle in Essex, heir to the second-oldest earldom in England.
- Tom ShippeyTom Shippey was 14 years old when a borrowed copy of The Hobbit changed the course of his life. That chance encounter with Tolkien's work set him on a path…
- Abba EbanAbba Eban stood before the United Nations General Assembly in 1967 and delivered a defence of Israel so finely constructed that Henry Kissinger later said he…