Famous Cambridge University students

Guess these former students of the University of Cambridge
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Last updated: January 8, 2018
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Naturalist who wrote On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Monty Python and Fawlty Towers star
John Cleese
Computer pioneer and chief decipherer of the Enigma code
Alan Turing
Shakespearean actor who played Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy
Sir Ian McKellen
Influential scientist credited with discovering gravity
Sir Isaac Newton
Poet who helped launch the Romantic Period. Works include Daffodils, Lyrical Ballads and The Prelude
William Wordsworth
Played Loki in the Thor (2011) and Avengers (2012) movies
Tom Hiddleston
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Long-time collaborator of Hugh Laurie and former QI host
Stephen Fry
"Father of the computer" who developed the concept of a programmable computer in the nineteenth century
Charles Babbage
British host of The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight
John Oliver
Veteran naturalist and presenter of Life on Earth and The Blue Planet
Sir David Attenborough
Became the first Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1721
Robert Walpole
Victorian Poet Laureate and author of The Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Manhattan Project scientist who remarked "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds"
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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