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This is a list of alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
- M. H. Abrams – literary theorist and critic
- J. R. Ackerley – writer and poet
- Simon Ambrose – winner of The Apprentice (Season 3)
- Richard Atkinson – Bishop of Bedford
- Giles Baring – cricketer
- Simon Barrington-Ward – Bishop of Coventry (1985–1997)
- Peter Beck – soldier and schoolmaster
- Henry Bellingham, Baron Bellingham – Member of Parliament for North West Norfolk; former junior minister at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- A. C. Benson – librettist of Land of Hope and Glory
- Michael Binyon – foreign correspondent for The Times; now Leader Writer
- Patrick Blackett – Nobel Prize-winning physicist
- Sir Nicholas Blake – Judge of the High Court of Justice
- Norman Blake – Middle English and Early Modern English language and literature scholar
- Sir John Boardman – archaeologist, Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology
- John Bromley – 17th-century Catholic convert and translator of The Catechism for the Curats, composed by the Decree of the Council of Trent, faithfully translated into English (London 1687)
- Charles Vyner Brooke – last White Rajah of Sarawak
- Sir Simon Bryan – Judge of the High Court of Justice
- Anthony Bull – transport engineer
- David Burghley – gold medalist of the 1928 Olympic Games in 400m hurdles
- Clemency Burton-Hill – broadcaster, novelist, journalist, and violinist
- Anthony Caesar – English priest and composer
- Sir David Calcutt – former Master and barrister
- Henry Chadwick KBE – former head of Christ Church, Oxford
- Sir John Chadwick – Lord Justice of Appeal
- H. K. Chainani – Chief Justice of Bombay High Court
- Greg Clark – Member of Parliament for Tunbridge Wells; former Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and former President of the Board of Trade
- Arthur Cohen – lawyer and Liberal politician; first Jewish graduate of Cambridge University
- Peter Cowie – film historian
- Stella Creasy – Member of Parliament for Walthamstow
- Joe Crowley – TV presenter and broadcast journalist
- Robyn Curnow – South African journalist and news anchor
- Kulada Charan Das Gupta – Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court
- Katie Derham – TV newsreader
- Simon Doggart – Cambridge cricketer and a co-abuser in the Church of England John Smyth abuse of young men scandal
- Monty Don – gardener
- William Donaldson – creator of Henry Root
- Henry Dunster – first president of Harvard University
- William Empson – literary critic and poet
- Julian Fellowes – actor and Academy Award-winning screenwriter
- Eric Fernihough – Brooklands and world motorcycle speed record holder
- Peter Fudakowski – Academy Award-winning film producer
- Bamber Gascoigne – TV presenter, University Challenge
- Robin Warwick Gibson – former Chief Curator of National Portrait Gallery, London; art historian & writer
- Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester – member of the British Royal Family
- Prince William of Gloucester – member of the British Royal Family
- Maurice Goldhaber – American physicist
- Siram Govindarajulu – founding vice-chancellor of Sri Venkateswara University
- David Grainger – British venture capitalist
- Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg – British politician and colonial administrator; older brother of Robert
- Sir Robert Grant – British lawyer, politician, and hymnist; younger brother of Charles
- Sir Christopher Greenwood QC – Judge of the International Court of Justice (2009-2018)
- Antony Grey – pioneer in gay rights activism
- Loyd Grossman – chef, musician, television presenter, sauce maker
- Karl W. Gruenberg – British mathematician
- Sir Norman Hartnell – couturier and dressmaker to the Queen
- Abdul Khalek Hassouna – Egyptian politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the Arab League
- Gavin Hastings OBE – international rugby sportsperson
- Julian Haviland – former Political Editor of ITN and The Times
- Nick Herbert – Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs; former Minister of State for Justice
- Adam Holloway – Member of Parliament for Gravesham
- Sir Antony Jay – co-screenwriter of Yes Minister
- Richard Johnson – first chaplain to Australia
- Igor Judge, Baron Judge – Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (2008–2013)
- Akhtar Hameed Khan – social scientist
- Charles Kingsley – author of The Water Babies and Regius Professor of Modern History
- R. F. Kuang – author; Hugo Award-winning Chinese American fantasy writer of Babel and The Poppy War; known also for Yellowface
- Charles La Trobe – first lieutenant-governor of Victoria, Australia
- Lewis H. Lapham – American writer; editor of Lapham's Quarterly; former editor of Harper's Magazine
- Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory – air vice marshal at the Battle of Britain
- Chris Lintott – astrophysicist
- Selwyn Lloyd – former Foreign Secretary; Chancellor of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Commons
- Mark Malloch Brown – former United Nations Deputy Secretary-General and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- George Mallory – mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s
- William Mann – music critic on The Times (1948–1982)
- John Manningham – sixteenth- and seventeenth-century diarist, lawyer; noted for recording details of an original performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
- Kingsley Martin – journalist
- Tristan McConnell – journalist
- John McPhee – Pulitzer Prize-winning writer
- Sir Samuel Morland – diplomat, spy, inventor, mathematician
- Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin – former president of the International Olympic Committee
- Roger Morris – electrical engineer
- Sir Andrew Morritt – Chancellor of the High Court of Justice
- Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II – current Kabaka of Buganda
- Sir Edward Frederick Mutesa II – former Kabaka of Buganda and President of Uganda
- Mike Newell – film director of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Adam Nicolson – historian and author, son of Nigel Nicolson and grandson of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
- Charles Kay Ogden – literary critic
- Sir Jonathan Parker – Lord Justice of Appeal
- Charles Stewart Parnell (did not graduate) – Irish nationalist
- Samuel Pepys – naval administrator, MP, and diarist
- Allen Dain Percival CBE – musician and composer; Principal of the Guildhall School of Music; executive chairman of Stainer & Bell
- Sir Simon Picken – Judge of the High Court of Justice
- Ardal Powell – maker and player of historical flutes
- Francis Pym – former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Michael Ramsey – Archbishop of Canterbury
- Julian Rathbone – English novelist and Booker Prize-shortlisted author
- Sir Michael Redgrave – actor
- Jon Ridgeon – former British Olympic athlete and current CEO of World Athletics (2018–present)
- I. A. Richards – literary critic
- Alan Rusbridger – editor of The Guardian
- Warren Sach – United Nations executive
- Sir Frederic Salusbury – editor of the Daily Herald
- Rina Sawayama – singer
- Nicholas Shakespeare – novelist
- Charles Shaughnessy, 5th Baron Shaughnessy – British actor
- John Simpson – journalist
- Nicholas Snowman – arts administrator and chairman of the jewellers Wartski
- Sir Christopher Staughton – Lord Justice of Appeal
- John Young Stratton – author, essayist, social reformer and campaigner against rural poverty
- Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder – Marshal of the Royal Air Force, World War II
- John Tedder, 2nd Baron Tedder – Professor of Chemistry; expert in free radical chemistry
- Nanavira Thera – Buddhist monk
- Charit Tingsabadh – Thai economist
- John Treasure – advertising executive
- Philip Vellacott – classical scholar
- Roger Vignoles – concert pianist and accompanist
- Rob Wainwright – international rugby player
- Geoffrey Webb – art historian
- Geoffrey Whitney – sixteenth-century poet and emblematist
- Wong Yan-lung – Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong
References
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- Maggie Humphreys and Robert Evans (1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. p. 54. ISBN 9781441137968.
- 'La Trobe enrolled at Magdalene College at Cambridge but it is doubtful whether he ever attended a lecture'. C J La Trobe Society, 'Early Life', The C J La Trobe Society , accessed 7 Jan. 2015
- Maggie Humphreys and Robert Evans (1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. p. 262. ISBN 9781441137968.
- Cummings, David, ed. (2000). International who's who in music and musicians' directory : (in the classical and light classical fields); 2000/2001 (17th ed.). Cambridge: Melrose Press. p. 604. ISBN 978-0948875533.