The college was first founded, as Gonville Hall, by Edmund Gonville, Rector of Terrington in 1348. It was founded a second time as Gonville & Caius College in 1557 by the physician John Caius. John Caius was master of the college from 1559 and until shortly before his death in 1573. He provided the college with significant funds and greatly extended the buildings.

The college first admitted women as fellows and students in 1979. The college now has nearly 100 fellows, over 700 students and about 200 staff.

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John Venn - Inventor of the Venn diagram
Charles Sherrington - Nobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes (pronounced no-BELL or no-bell are awarded annually to people who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society. It is generally regarded as the supreme comme winning neurophysiologist
Sir James ChadwickSir James Chadwick ( October 20, 1891 July 24, 1974) was an English physicist and Nobel laureate. Chadwick was born in Cheshire, England and educated at Manchester University and Cambridge University. In 1914 Chadwick went to study under Hans Geiger at th - Nobel Prize winning physicist, discoverer of the neutronNeutron Classification Subatomic particle Fermion Hadron Baryon Nucleon Neutron Properties Mass: 940 MeV/ c 2 Electric Charge: 0 C Spin: 1/2 In physics, the neutron is a subatomic particle with no net electric charge and a mass of 940 MeV/ c 2 ( kg; very
E. A. Wilson - Explorer who died with ScottCaptain Sir Robert Falcon Scott ( June 6, 1868 March 29, 1912) was a British Naval officer and Antarctic explorer. Having narrowly failed to become the first man to reach the South Pole, beaten by Roald Amundsen and his party, Scott died on the Ross Ice S in the Antarctic.
Harold Abrahams - Olympic athlete fictionalised in the film Chariots of Fire
Sir Nevill Mott - Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist
Henry Fancourt - Naval Aviator
Kenneth Clarke - Chancellor of the Exchequer
J. H. Prynne - modern British poet
Inagaki Manjiro - (1861-1908) - Japan's first Minister Resident in Siam in 1897, Pan-Asianist, leading light of the Japanese Club at Cambridge
Nabeshima Naomitsu - (1872-1943) - 12th daimyo of the Saga clan, Kyushu and keen rugby player at the College
Mouri Goro - (1871-1925) of the Choshu clan
John Lehman - American Secretary of the Navy and member of the September 11th Commission.

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Gonville and Caius College, CambridgeGonville and Caius College, Cambridge generally known as "Caius" (though pronounced "Keys") is a constituent college of Cambridge University. Most of the stone used to build the college came from Ramsey Abbey near Ramsey, Cambridgeshire. The college was f

Gonville BromheadGonville Bromhead was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Details He was 33 years old, and a Lieutenant in the 2n

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