He was a Fellow and Bursar of King's College, and was an economist, philosopher, businessman, civil servant, and diplomat. He founded the Cambridge Arts Theatre on 3rd February 1936.

She was a social reformer and researcher in Cambridge. She became involved in the Charity Organisation Society, housed at 82 Regent Street, and later founded Save the Children. It was her observation that 'Every war, just or unjust, is a war against the child'.

Dame Leah Manning was a campaigner for children’s welfare and women’s rights. She trained as a teacher at Homerton College and started her career at the former New Street Ragged School, where the plaque is positioned.

A professor, churchman, botanist and geologist, and an innovator in universal education. He became a guiding light for his student Charles Darwin, and founded the Cambridge University Botanic Garden in 1831.

Established in 1869 as Britain’s first residential institution for the higher education of women. Principal founders Emily Davies and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. The college was relocated to its current site from Hitchin in 1873.

Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929) was a leading suffragist and co-founder of Newnham College, and a lifelong campaigner for women's education and equal citizenship.

Despite being blinded aged 25 in a shooting accident, he became a Liberal MP who campaigned for women's suffrage. He was later appointed Postmaster-General and introduced parcel post, postal orders, telegrams, and Post Office Savings. He lived in Brookside with his wife and daughter from 1874 to 1884. Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Location: 19 Brookside, Cambridge, CB2 1JE

He was 'a friend of artists', returning to England from Morocco to create Kettle's Yard, where he lived and displayed his art collection from 1957 to 1973.

She was a Quaker minister and campaigned for freedom and toleration in matters of religion and conscience. She gave a site to the Quakers for a Meeting House while still living there. Location: 12 Jesus Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8BA

A naturalist, geologist and biologist who is best-known for his theory of evolution.