Turing Award winner Mario Vargas Llosa (Churchill), Nobel Prize winner Sir Hugh Walpole (Emmanuel) Eudora Welty (Peterhouse), Pulitzer Prize winner Patrick White (King's), Nobel Prize winner T. H. White (Queens') James H. Wilkinson (St. John's), Turing Award winner Raymond Williams (Trinity) James Wood (Jesus) Jin Yong (St John's) Non-fiction writers A–Z Nigel Cumberland (Queens') Poets A–M William Alabaster (Trinity) Sri Aurobindo (King's) Harivanshrai Bachchan (St Catharine's) John Bale (Jesus) Maurice Baring (Trinity) A. C. Benson (King's/Magdalene) John Berryman (Clare) Joseph Brodsky (Clare Hall), Nobel Prize winner Rupert Brooke (King's) John Byrom (Trinity) Lord Byron (Trinity) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Jesus) F. M. Cornford (Trinity) John Cornford (Trinity) Abraham Cowley (Trinity) George Crabbe (Trinity) Cecil Day-Lewis (unknown), Poet Laureate John Donne (unknown) Charles Montagu Doughty (Caius) John Dryden (Trinity), Poet Laureate Richard Eberhart (St John's) D. J. Enright (Downing) Laurence Eusden (Trinity), Poet Laureate Michael Field (Newnham) Edward FitzGerald (Trinity) Giles Fletcher (Trinity) George Gascoigne (Trinity) Alice Goodman (Trinity) Sir Edmund Gosse (Trinity) Thomas Gray (Peterhouse/Pembroke) Thom Gunn (Trinity) Arthur Hallam (Trinity) Peter Hausted (Queens') Hamish Henderson (Downing) George Herbert (Trinity) Robert Herrick (St John's) Geoffrey Hill (Emmanuel) Philip Hobsbaum (Downing) David Holbrook (Downing) John Holloway (Queens') A. E. Housman (Trinity) Ted Hughes (Pembroke), Poet Laureate Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Trinity) Lawrence Joseph (Magdalene) Arthur Henry King (unknown) John Lehmann (Trinity) Malcolm Lowry (St Catharine's) Christopher Marlowe (Corpus Christi) Andrew Marvell (Trinity) Thomas May (Sidney Sussex) John Milton (Christ's) Wendy Mulford (unknown) Frederic William Henry Myers (Trinity) N–Z Victor Benjamin Neuburg (Trinity) Sylvia Plath (Newnham), Pulitzer Prize winner J. H. Prynne (Caius) Kathleen Raine (Girton) Thomas Randolph (Trinity) Tom Raworth (King's) Peter Redgrove (Queens') Siegfried Sassoon (Clare) Thomas Shadwell (Caius), Poet Laureate John Skelton (unknown), Poet Laureate Christopher Smart (Pembroke) Edmund Spenser (Pembroke), Poet Laureate Sir John Suckling (Trinity) Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Trinity), Poet Laureate Derick Thomson (unknown) William Wentworth (Peterhouse) William Whitehead (Clare), Poet Laureate John Wilkinson (Jesus) William Wordsworth (St John's), Poet Laureate Xu Zhimo (King's) Literary scholars M. H. Abrams (Magdalene) Peter Ackroyd (Clare) Noel Annan (King's) Jonathan Bate (St. Catharine's/Trinity Hall) Mary Beard (Newnham) Clive Bell (Trinity) Stanley Bennett (Emmanuel) Joan Bennett (Girton) Richard Bentley (St John's/Trinity) Harold Bloom (Pembroke) Alain de Botton (Caius) Henry Bradshaw (King's) Edward G. Browne (Pembroke) Nick Clarke (Fitzwilliam) A. B. Cook (Queens'/Trinity) F. M. Cornford (Trinity) Jonathan Culler (Selwyn) Donald Davie (St Catharine's/Caius) Simon Digby (Trinity) Patrick Dixon (King's) Denis Donoghue (King's) Gerald