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Prime Minister of Finland from March 1943 to August 1944. One of the seven politicians sentenced to five and a half years in prison as responsible for the Continuation War, on the demand of the Soviet Union. He was paroled in 1948. He was a prominent academic, pro-rector (administrative head) of the University of Helsinki 1932 to 1943, rector 1956 to 1962, and the government's Chancellor of the University from 1962 until his death.

Professor Susan Alcock is an American archaeologist specialising in survey archaeology and the archaeology of memory in the provinces of the Roman Empire.

She was educated at Yale University (1979-1983) and then studied Classics at Clare College (first class BA in 1985; MA 1989; PhD 1989).
She was Special Counsel for Institutional Outreach and Engagement and Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics at the University of Michigan and became the Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan - Flint in July 2018.
She is now the inaugural holder of the Barnett Family Professorship of Classical Archaeology at the University of Oklahoma-Norman where she teaches courses in the Department of Classics & Letters.

She was made an Honorary Fellow of Clare College in 2012.

Dr David Hartley is a chartered engineer in computing and information technology, who has combined many years as a senior manager in the
university environment with a wide range of consulting and advisory positions for government, education, research and industry. He worked in the Computer Laboratory on the early pioneering computers making contributions in programming languages, operating systems and other services. He was Director of the University Computing Service from 1970 to 1994, and was responsible for the University’s broadband facility linking all Colleges and Departments throughout Cambridge.

From 1994 to 1997 he was Chief Executive of the company developing the JANET national network, and from 1997 to 2002 was Executive Director of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. He was then Steward of Clare College for three years, and worked with Toby Wilkinson to reform alumni relations into the force that it is today. He was President of the British Computer Society in millennium year 1999-2000.

Among external roles, he has advised many bodies including government departments. In the 1980’s he was a member of the Computer Board for Universities and Research Councils, and the Prime Minister’s Information Technology Advisory Panel, also spending a sabbatical year at the Department of Industry.

MA, Mathematics, 1959
Diploma in Numerical Analysis and Automatic Computing, 1959
PhD, Computer Science, 1963
FBCS, CEng, CITP
Medal of Merits, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland, 1984

Donald Hearn served as Bursar of Clare from 2001 until 2013.

Prior to his appointment as Bursar, Donald was Finance Director at the Royal Horticultural Society for fifteen years. Following his retirement from Clare he continues to be actively involved with a number of charities, University Committees and pension schemes.

Admitted to Clare College in 1950
1964 - made a Fellow

Among his many interests, Dr Knewstubb was an expert on the Clare College silver who organised exhibitions of the College treasures, and he was an enthusiastic singer.

Son of J.P. Hooper (Electrical Engineer) of London

Admitted to Clare on 14 July 1905

Born in Frankfurt am Main, Lipstein earned his Abitur from Goethe-Gymnasium in 1927. He enrolled at the University of Grenoble, and later finished his studies at the University of Berlin. He was of Jewish descent and emigrated to England in 1934. He earned his doctorate at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1936.
During the war he spent some time in an internment camp as an enemy alien. His parents perished in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

After the war he became a Fellow of Clare College and served as Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Cambridge from 1973 to 1976.

He was a renowned specialist in Roman law and conflict of laws within private international law and public international law and pioneer in comparative law.

Probably the 2nd son of John Sanderson of Little Addington, Northamptonshire, and perhaps grandson of Laurence Saunderson (admitted to Clare College 1560)

Matriculated as a pensioner from Clare College April 1622
B.A. 1625/6

Ordained deacon (Peterborough) 5 September 1627
Ordained priest 21 December 1628
Vicar of Little Addington, Northamptonshire, 1627-46 sequestered

Probably brother of John Sanderson (admitted to Clare College in 1616)

For more information see: Howcutt, Francis Cecily Sanderson of Little Abbington and Moulton

https://archive.org/details/cecily-sanderson-little-addington-moulton-v01/mode/2up

Probably the son and heir of John Sanderson of Little Addington, Northamptonshire

Matriculated as a pensioner at Clare College April 1616

B.A. 1619/20

Admitted at Gray's Inn, 1 November 1619

Probably the brother of Laurence Sanderson (admitted to Clare College in 1622)

For more information see: Howcutt, Francis Cecily Sanderson of Little Abbington and Moulton

https://archive.org/details/cecily-sanderson-little-addington-moulton-v01/mode/2up