This is a list of alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge. * M.H. Abrams, literary theorist and critic * J.R. Ackerley, writer and poet * Simon Ambrose, winner of The Apprentice (UK series three) * Richard Atkinson, Bishop of Bedford * Giles Baring, cricketer * Simon Barrington-Ward, Bishop of Coventry, 1985–1997 * Henry Bellingham, Baron Bellingham, Member of Parliament for North West Norfolk, former junior minister at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office * Peter Beck, soldier and schoolmaster * A. C. Benson, librettist of Land of Hope and Glory * Michael Binyon, foreign correspondent for The Times, now Leader Writer * Patrick Blackett, Nobel Prize winning physicist * Norman Blake, Middle English and Early Modern English language and literature scholar * Sir John Boardman, arch