University of Cambridge

Isaac Newton

philosopher·1643–1727

English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)

Charles Darwin

scientific collector·1809–1882

English naturalist and biologist (1809-1882)

Lord Byron

philhellene·1788–1824

English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)

Stephen Hawking

theoretical physicist·1942–2018

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

Bertrand Russell

autobiographer·1872–1970

British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)

John Maynard Keynes

non-fiction writer·1883–1946

British economist (1883–1946)

Peter Paul Rubens

printmaker·1577–1640

Flemish painter (1577–1640)

Ernest Rutherford

nuclear physicist·1871–1937

New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)

Ludwig Wittgenstein

architectural theoretician·1889–1951

Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)

James Clerk Maxwell

theoretical physicist·1831–1879

Scottish physicist (1831–1879)

Erasmus

essayist·1466–1536

Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian (1466-1536)

Vladimir Nabokov

autobiographer·1899–1977

Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)