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Matriculated at Clare, 1965.

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.

Born in Bramford in Suffolk, the son of John Acton.

Admitted as a Fellow-Commoner at Clare on 30 January 1700/01.
MP for Orford, Suffolk, 1722, 1729.
High Sheriff for Suffolk, 1739.
Died in 1744 leaving £100 towards building the College Chapel.

Peter Ackroyd is a biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.

Was made an Honorary Fellow of Clare College in 2006.

Read economics and law at Clare College and was later made an Honorary Fellow.

Dennison was made Music Director of Clare in 1971.

11 acres of land on the west of Queen's Road was alloted to the College under the Enclosure Act for St Giles Parish in 1806, but to be subject to a public bridleway (Burrell's walk).

Land at Lolworth and Childerley was acquired in 1562 and sold in 1947