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De Sampayo 1855-1927, entered Clare in 1878

Prof. Philip Ford, director of Medieval and Modern Languages at Clare

Sir Harry Godwin 1901-1985. Admitted to Clare 1919, Fellow 1925, Professor of Botany 1960-1968

Brigadier Tony Heywood (1919-2006), Clare 1938. Distinguished military career; awarded an MC during Emergency in Malaya.

Microbiologist, Clare 1961; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 for for his discovery of cyclin and its role in the cell cycle. Filming at Clare College in September 2009 for "Beautiful minds"

Admitted to Clare, 1685

Michael Majerus 1954-2009, Geneticist, Fellow at Clare 1991-2009,

Born in Lavenham, Suffolk, in 1575. He matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge in 1589 before migrating to Trinity and then gaining his BA in 1593-4.

He was later a Fellow of Clare 1598-1620.
He was also a Taxor, 1604 and was incorporated at Oxford in 1605.
He vacated his Fellowship when he succeeded to some property but he died soon after in 1622.
He is remembered as the author of the famous Cambridge play, which so delighted James I called Ignoramus. It was written in Latin in 1614-1615 by Ruggle and was modelled on an Italian Comedy by Giovanni Battista della Porta to caricature the pedantry of the legal profession. It was played before King James on 8 March 1615 on the occasion of his visit to the University and he then made a special journey to Cambridge on 13 May to see the play again.

Afterwards Ruggle was tutor at Babraham, Cambridgeshire, to the two sons of Toby Palavicino. The latter was Executor to Ruggle and paid his bequest of £100 to the College on 3 March 1624-5. Ruggle bequeathed his valuable collection of French, Spanish and Italian books to the College. [Details from Harrison index and Book of Clare, pp. 76, 143-4].

Admitted sizar at Clare, 20 August 1635.
Matriculated 1636.
B.A. 1639-40; M.A. 1643; D.D. 1661 (Lit. Reg.).
Fellow, 1642-4 (ejected); restored, 1660. He was one of 4 Fellows restored at the Restoration.

On 27 August 1661 he was required to go with Sir Richard Fanshaw to Portugal in connection with King Charles II's marriage to Catherine of Braganza.

Incorporated at Oxford, 1664.
Fellow of Eton College, 1661-70.
Canon of Windsor, 1662-70.
Vicar of New Windsor, 1662.

Died 23 June 1670. Buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor M.I.

He was a man of great generosity and was devoted to his College. He gave half of the profits of his Fellowship for the last year to the building fund and in his will left £700 to the same fund..