| Member | Election Date | College | Notability | References |
| Noel Annan, Baron Annan | | King's | House of Lords; provost of King's College, Cambridge; British military intelligence officer; provost of University College London; and vice-chancellor of the University of London | |
| Ferenc Békássy | 27 January 1911 | King's | Poet | |
| Julian Bell | 17 November 1928 | King's | Poet | |
| Hugh Blackburn | | Trinity | Professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow | |
| George Holmes Blakesley | 28 February 1868 | King's | Author | |
| Joseph Blakesley | | Trinity | Canon of Canterbury Cathedral and Dean of Lincoln | |
| Anthony Blunt | | Trinity | Art historian and Soviet spy who was a member of the Cambridge Five | |
| R. B. Braithwaite | 26 February 1921 | King's | Philosopher and ethicist | |
| Rupert Brooke | 25 January 1908 | King's | Poet | |
| Oscar Browning | 11 December 1858 | King's | Educationalist and historian | |
| Charles Buller | | Trinity | Member of Parliament and Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces | |
| Guy Burgess | | Trinity | Radio producer, British intelligence and Foreign Office officer, and Soviet spy who was a member of the Cambridge Five | |
| John Cairncross | | Trinity | British intelligence officer and Soviet spy | |
| William Dougal Christie | | Trinity | British diplomat, politician, and man of letters | |
| William Cookesley | 8 November 1928 | Trinity | Classical scholar, cleric, and master of Eton College | |
| William Johnson Cory | 10 March 1844 | King's | Educator and poet | |
| Gerald Croasdell | | Pembroke | Trade unionist and general secretary of the International Federation of Actors | |
| Erasmus Alvey Darwin | | Christ's | Brother of Charles Darwin | |
| Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | 14 February 1885 | King's | Historian, political philosopher, and activist | |
| James Hamilton Doggart | | King's | Ophthalmologist, cricketer, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group | |
| Frederic Farrar | | Trinity | Dean of Canterbury, school teacher, and author | |
| E. M. Forster | 9 February 1901 | King's | Novelist, writer, and a member of Bloomsbury Group | |
| Roger Fry | 28 May 1887 | King's | Painter and critic | |
| Robin Gandy | | King's | Mathematician and logician | |
| Walford Davis Green | 6 March 1905 | King's | House of Commons of the United Kingdom | |
| Arthur Hallam | | Trinity | Poet | |
| Thomas Oliver Harding | 1872 | Trinity | Senior Wrangler at Cambridge University | |
| G. H. Hardy | | Trinity | Mathematician | |
| Francis Haskell | | King's | Art historian | |
| Ralph George Hawtrey | | Trinity | Economist and a member of Bloomsbury Group | |
| Douglas Heath | | Trinity | Barrister, judge, literary editor, classical scholar, and writer | |
| Arthur Helps | | Trinity | Writer and dean of the Privy Council | |
| Eric Hobsbawm | 193x | King's | Academic historian and Marxist historiographer | |
| Alan Hodgkin | 1935 | Trinity | Biophysicist and co-winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology | |
| F. J. A. Hort | | Trinity | Anglican theologian | |
| George Howard | 1864 | Trinity | Painter and the 9th Earl of Carlisle | |
| Henry Jackson | 1863 | Trinity | Vice-master of Trinity College and Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge | |
| Lal Jayawardena | | King's | Sri Lankan Ambassador to the European Economic Community, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands; economist; and first director of the World Institute for Development Economics Research | |
| Richard Claverhouse Jebb | 1859 | Trinity | Classical scholar and MP for Cambridge | |
| John Mitchell Kemble | | Trinity | Scholar and historian who made one of the first translations of Beowulf | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy | | St John's | Scholar and schoolmaster | |
| John Maynard Keynes | 28 February 1903 | King's | Economist | |
| Henry Lintott | 30 November 1929 | King's | British High Commissioner to Canada | |
| Richard Llewelyn-Davies, Baron Llewelyn-Davies | | Trinity | Architect | |
| D. W. Lucas | 7 November 1925 | King's | Classical scholar, a fellow of King's College, and cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park during World War II | |
| Gordon Luce | | Emmanuel | Orientalist and colonial scholar in Burma | |
| Vernon Lushington | | Trinity | Deputy Judge Advocate General and Second Secretary to the Admiralty | |
| Donald MacAlister | 1876 | St. John's | Chancellor of the University of Glasgow | |
| William Herrick Macaulay | 20 May 1876 | King's | Mathematician | |
| Desmond MacCarthy | | Trinity | Writer and the foremost literary and dramatic critic of his day | |
| John Gorham Maitland | | Trinity | Academic and civil servant | |
| Arthur Malkin | 1826 | Trinity | Cricketer, writer, and alpinist | |
| F. D. Maurice | | Trinity | Anglican socialist theologian | |
| James Clerk Maxwell | | Trinity | Physicist responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation | |
| Robert John Grote Mayor | 2 March 1888 | King's | Civil servant and educationist | |
| Norman McLean | 1888 | Christ's | Semitic and Biblical scholar | |
| J. M. E. McTaggart | | Trinity | Metaphysician and philosopher | |
| Jonathan Miller | | St John's | theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, and humourist | |
| Richard Monckton Milnes | | Trinity | Poet, patron of literature, and the 1st Baron Houghton | |
| James Mirrlees | | Trinity | British Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences | |
| Robert Monteith | | Trinity | Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Lanark, Scotland | |
| G. E. Moore | | Trinity | Philosopher and one of the founders of analytic philosophy | |
| Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet | | Trinity | Jurist | |
| Dennis Proctor | 22 October 1927 | King's | British civil servant; Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath | |
| Marlborough Pryor | | Trinity | Businessman | |
| Walter Raleigh | 28 October 1882 | King's | Scholar, poet, and author | |
| Frank Plumpton Ramsey | 22 October 1921 | King's | Philosopher and economist | |
| Thomas Robinson | | Trinity | Archdeacon of Madras; Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge; and Master of the Temple | |
| Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild | | Trinity | Banker, scientist, intelligence officer, and government advisor | |
| Bertrand Russell | | Trinity | Philosopher and logician; one of the founders of analytic philosophy | |
| Dadie Rylands | 25 February 1922 | King's | Literary scholar and theatre director | |
| Amartya Sen | | Trinity | Economist and philosopher | |
| John Tresidder Sheppard | 8 February 1902 | King's | Classical scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge | |
| Peter Shore | | King's | British Labour Party politician and Cabinet minister | |
| Gerald Shove | 30 January 1909 | King's | Economist | |
| Henry Sidgwick | | Trinity | Philosopher and economist; founder and first president of the Society for Psychical Research | |
| Quentin Skinner | | Christ's | A founder of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought; winner of the Wolfson History Prize and the Balzan Prize | |
| Arthur Smith | | Trinity | Archaeologist and curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum; director of the British School at Rome | |
| Henry Babington Smith | | Trinity | Senior British civil servant and a director of the Bank of England | |
| James Parker Smith | | Trinity | Barrister and politician who served as Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for Partick | |
| W. J. H. Sprott | | Clare | Psychologist and writer | |
| Edward Stanley | | Trinity | Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Colonial Secretary, and 15th Earl of Derby | |
| Vincent Henry Stanton | | | Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University | |
| James Kenneth Stephen | 17 May 1879 | King's | Poet and royal tutor | |
| Leslie Stephen | | King's | Writer and mountaineer; father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell | |
| John Sterling | | Trinity | Author | |
| Lytton Strachey | | Trinity | Writer, critic, and a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group | |
| Michael Straight | | Trinity | Magazine publisher, novelist, and Soviet spy | |
| Saxon Sydney-Turner | early 1900s | Trinity | British civil servant and a member of Bloomsbury Group | |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | | Trinity | Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom | |
| George Derwent Thomson | 10 November 1923 | King's | Classical scholar, Marxist philosopher, and scholar of the Irish language | |
| George Tomlinson | 1 April 1820 | St John's | first Bishop of Gibraltar | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench | | Trinity | Archbishop of Dublin, Primate of Ireland, and poet | |
| G. M. Trevelyan | | Trinity | Chancellor of Durham University; Master and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge | |
| R. C. Trevelyan | | Trinity | Poet and translator | |
| A. W. Verrall | 1877 | Trinity | Classics scholar | |
| Francis Warre-Cornish | | King's | Schoolmaster, scholar, and writer | |
| Ronald Watkins | 24 October 1925 | King's | Drama teacher and director | |
| Alister Watson | 29 January 1927 | King's | Mathematician and a key member of the Cambridge Five | |
| Nathaniel Wedd | 25 February 1888 | King's | Historian and academic | |
| Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet | | Trinity | Chief Officer of the London and North Eastern Railway and chairman of the Railway Executive Committee | |
| James Welldon | 6 February 1875 | King's | Clergyman and scholar | |
| Brooke Foss Westcott | | Trinity | Bishop of Durham, scholar, and theologian | |
| Alfred North Whitehead | | Trinity | Mathematician and philosopher | |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | | Trinity | Philosopher and logician | |
| Leonard Woolf | | Trinity | Author and publisher; husband of Virginia Woolf | |