List of University of Oxford people

The following persons attended the University of Oxford, though did not necessarily complete a degree course there.

This list of old members, or alumni as they are often referred to today, has been divided into categories, but it should be noted that these categories are somewhat arbitrary. Many of the university's alumni have been polymaths (for instance William Ewart Gladstone was a prominent classicist as well as Prime Minister; some theologians could equally well be considered as philosophers), in these cases an attempt has been made to put them in the category for which they were most famous.

Oxford alumni include at least 10 kings of six different nations, 50 presidents and prime ministers of 18 different nations (including 25 British prime ministers), seven saints, one pope, 18 cardinals, 86 archbishops, three Fields medallists and 47 Nobel prize-winners (including winners of all categories).

Political leaders/Royalty

Kings

King Abdullah II of Jordan
Edward VII of the United Kingdom (Christ Church)
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (Magdalen)
Harald V of Norway (Balliol)
Olav V of Norway
Ahmad Shah of Malaysia (Worcester)
Tuanku Abdul Halim of Malaysia (Wadham)
Tuanku Jaafar of Malaysia (Balliol)
Vajiravhud of Thailand
William II of the Netherlands

Presidents and Prime Ministers (International)

Grantley Adams Premier of Barbados, 1954-58; Prime Minister of the West Indies, 1958-62
Edward Afuko Addo, President of Ghana (St. Peter's)
Solomon Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike Prime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka) 1956-59
Benazir Bhutto (Lady Margaret Hall) Prime Minister of Pakistan
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (Christ Church) President of Pakistan 1971-1973, Prime Minister 1973-1977
Bill Clinton (University) President of the USA 1993-2001
Malcolm Fraser Prime Minister of Australia 1975-1983
Indira Gandhi Prime Minister of India (Somerville)
Penaia Ganilau (Wadham) President of Fiji 1987-1993
John Gorton Prime Minister of Australia 1968-1971
Bob Hawke (University) Prime Minister of Australia 1983-1991
Seretse Khama (Balliol) First President of Botswana
Liaquat Ali Khan Prime Minister of Pakistan
John Kufuor President of Ghana 2001-
Farooq Leghari President of Pakistan 1993-1997
Norman Manley Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1972-1980 & 1989-1992
Kamisese Mara (Wadham) Prime Minister of Fiji 1967-1987, 1987-1992, President of Fiji 1993-2000
Dom Mintoff (Hertford) Prime Minister of Malta 1955-1958, 1971-1984
Festus Mogae President of Botswana 1998-
Viktor Orbán (Pembroke) Prime Minister of Hungary 1998-2002
Lester Bowles Pearson Prime Minister of Canada 1963-1968
Raymond Robinson President of Trinidad and Tobago, 1997-2003
Wasim Sajjad President of Pakistan
Manmohan Singh (Nuffield) Prime Minister of India 2004-
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy Prime Minister of Pakistan 1956-57
John Napier Turner Prime Minister of Canada 1984
Richard von Weizsäcker (Balliol) President of the Federal Republic of Germany 1984-94
Eric Williams (St. Catherine's) Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago 1956-1981

British Prime Ministers

Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington 1742-1743 (Trinity)
Henry Pelham 1743-1746 (Hertford)
George Grenville 1763-1765 (Christ Church)
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham 1766-1768 (Trinity)
Frederick North, Lord North 1770-1782 (Trinity)
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne 1782-1783 (Christ Church)
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland 1783, 1807-1809 (Christ Church)
Henry Addington 1801-1804 (Brasenose)
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville 1806-1807 (Christ Church)
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool 1812-1827 (Christ Church)
George Canning 1827 (Christ Church)
Sir Robert Peel, Bt 1834-1835, 1841-1846 (Christ Church)
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby 1852, 1858-1859, 1866-1868 (Christ Church)
William Gladstone 1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1886, 1892-1894 (Christ Church)
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 1885-1886, 1886-1892, 1895-1902 (Christ Church)
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery 1894-1895 (Christ Church)
Herbert Asquith 1908-1916 (Balliol)
Clement Attlee 1945-1951 (University)
Anthony Eden 1955-1957 (Christ Church)
Harold Macmillan 1957-1963 (Balliol)
Alec Douglas-Home 1963-1964 (Christ Church)
Harold Wilson 1964-1970, 1974-1976 (Jesus)
Edward Heath 1970-1974 (Balliol)
Margaret Thatcher 1979-1990 (Somerville)
Tony Blair 1997- (St John's)

Other Prominent Political Figures

Andrew Adonis (Jesus)
Carl Albert (St. Peter's)
Michael Ancram (Christ Church)
Aung San Suu Kyi (St. Hugh's)
Kim Beazley
Peter Benenson (Balliol)
Tony Benn (New)
Bill Bradley
Gyles Brandreth
David Cameron (Brasenose)
Barbara Castle (St. Hugh's)
Lord Robert Cecil (University)
Wesley Clark (Magdalen)
Emily Davison (St. Hugh's)
Alan Duncan (St. John's)
William Henry Drayton (Balliol)
Michael Foot (Wadham)
Charles James Fox (Hertford)
Geoffrey Gallop (St. John's)
Frene Ginwala Speaker of the South African National Assembly, 1994-
Michael Heseltine (Pembroke)
Roy Jenkins (Balliol)
Boris Johnson (Balliol)
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (Hertford)
Ruth Kelly (Queen's)
Imran Khan (Keble)
Richard Lugar (Pembroke)
Peter Mandelson (St. Catherine's)
Suvata Vasant Manohar Chief Justice, Supreme Court of India
Theresa May (St. Hugh's)
George Osborne (Magdalen)
Chris Patten (Balliol)
Eleanor Rathbone (Somerville)
John Redwood (Magdalen)
Dean Rusk (St. John's)
Edward Rutledge
Paul Sarbanes (Balliol)
Pixley Seme
Peter Singer (University)
John Spratt
Byron White (Hertford)
Shirley Williams (Somerville)

Other Prominent Royalty

Masako Owada (Balliol)
Naruhito (Merton)

Religious Figures

Saints

The following saints are recognised by the Catholic, but not the Anglican faith:

Pope

Pietro di Candia (schismatic Pope Alexander V during the Western Schism)

Cardinals, Archbishops, Chief Rabbis, Theologians, etc.

George Abbot (University)
William Cardinal Allen (Oriel)
Stuart Blanch (St. Catherine's)
Thomas Bradwardine (Balliol)
William Robinson Clark (Hertford)
Basil Cardinal Hume (St. Benet's Hall)
Jerome of Prague
Jeffrey John (Hertford)
Benjamin Jowett (Balliol)
John Keble (Christ Church)
William Laud (St. John's)
John Henry Newman (Trinity)
Edward Pusey (Christ Church)
Fazlur Rahman
Jonathan Sacks
William Tyndale (Hertford)
John Wesley (Christ Church)
Thomas Wolsey (Magdalen)
Rowan Williams (Christ Church/Wadham)
John Wyclif (Balliol)

Scientists and Mathematicians

Joseph Addison (Queen's/Magdalen)
Josephine Barnes
Tim Berners Lee (Queen's)
Baruch S. Blumberg (Balliol)
Robert Boyle
Simon Bredon
Sydney Brenner (Exeter)
Robert Burton (Brasenose)
Mary Cartwright (St Hugh's)
John Cornforth (St. Catherine's)
Richard Dawkins (Balliol)
John Carew Eccles (Magdalen)
Howard Florey (Magdalen)
JBS Haldane (New)
Edmund Halley (Queen's)
William Harvey
Stephen Hawking (University)
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (Balliol)
Dorothy Hodgkin (Somerville)
Robert Hooke (Christ Church)
Edwin Hubble (Queen's)
Anthony James Leggett
Gavin Maxwell (Hertford)
Peter Medawar (Magdalen)
Matt Ridley
Martin Ryle (Christ Church)
James Smithson (Pembroke)
Frederick Soddy (Merton)
Alexander Todd (Oriel)
Jethro Tull
John R. Vane (St. Catherine's)
Andrew Wiles (Merton)
Stephen Wolfram (St. John's)

The Arts

Novelists, Poets and Playwrights

Richard Adams (author) (Worcester)
Diran Adebayo
Monica Ali (Wadham)
Tariq Ali
Kingsley Amis (St. John's)
Martin Amis (Exeter)
Matthew Arnold (Balliol)
W. H. Auden (Christ Church/Exeter)
Alan Bennett (Exeter)
Max Beerbohm (Merton)
John Betjeman (Magdalen)
William Boyd (Jesus)
Robert Bridges (Corpus)
Vera Brittain (Somerville)
John Buchan (Balliol)
Lewis Carroll (Christ Church)
Amit Chaudhuri
Arthur Hugh Clough (Balliol)
Wendy Cope (St. Hilda's)
Samuel Daniel (Hertford)
Robertson Davies (Balliol)
John Donne (Hertford)
T. S. Eliot (Merton)
John Meade Falkner (Hertford)
Helen Fielding (St. Anne's)
Margaret Forster (Somerville)
John Galsworthy (New)
Amitav Ghosh (Balliol)
William Golding (Brasenose)
Robert Graves (St. John's)
Graham Greene (Balliol)
Mark Haddon (Merton)
Joseph Heller (St Catherine's)
Zoe Heller (St. Anne's)
Geoffrey Hill (Keble)
Alan Hollinghurst (Magdalen)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (Balliol)
A. E. Housman (St. John's)
Aldous Huxley (Balliol)
Samuel Johnson (Pembroke)
Terry Jones (St. Edmund Hall)
Hari Kunzru
Philip Larkin (St. John's)
John Le Carre (Lincoln)
Cecil Day Lewis (Wadham)
C. S. Lewis (University/Magdalen)
Toby Litt (Worcester)
Richard Lovelace
Louis MacNeice
John Marston (Brasenose)
Val McDermid (St. Hilda's)
Ved Mehta (Balliol)
Dom Moraes
Jan Morris (St. Edmund)
William Morris (Exeter)
Andrew Motion (University)
Iris Murdoch (Somerville/St. Anne's)
V. S. Naipaul (University)
Walter Pater (Queen's)
Tom Paulin (Lincoln)
Philip Pullman (Exeter)
Barbara Pym (St. Hilda's)
Thomas de Quincey (Brasenose)
Dorothy L. Sayers (Somerville)
Dr. Seuss (Lincoln)
Vikram Seth (Corpus Christi)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (University)
Philip Sidney (Christ Church)
Robert Southey (Balliol)
Charles Algernon Swinburne (Balliol)
Jonathan Swift (Hertford)
Edward Thomas (Lincoln)
J. R. R. Tolkien (Exeter)
Thomas Traherne (Brasnose)
Joanna Trollope
John Wain (St. John's)
Robert Penn Warren
Evelyn Waugh (Hertford)
Angus Wilson (Merton)
Jeanette Winterson (St. Catherine's)
Oscar Wilde (Magdalen)
William Wycherley (Queen's)

Actors, Comedians and TV Stars

Directors and Film-Makers

Musicians, Composers and Conductors

Fictional

Fox Mulder (The X-Files) (Psychology)

Philosophers

Theodor Adorno (Merton)
G. E. M. Anscombe (St. Hugh's)
J. L. Austin (Balliol)
Alfred Ayer (Christ Church)
Roger Bacon
Jeremy Bentham (Queen's)
Isaiah Berlin (Corpus Christi/All Souls)
Edward de Bono
David Chalmers
Daniel Dennett
Michael Dummett (Christ Church/All Souls)
Ronald Dworkin (Magdalen)
Dorothy Edgington (St. Hilda's)
Gareth Evans (philosopher) (University)
Peter Geach (Balliol)
Stuart Hampshire (Balliol)
R. M. Hare (Balliol)
H. L. A. Hart (New)
Thomas Hobbes (Hertford)
John Locke (Christ Church)
John Lucas (philosopher) (Balliol)
Colin McGinn
Thomas Nagel
William of Ockham (Merton)
Derek Parfit (Balliol/All Souls)
John Duns Scotus
Galen Strawson
P. F. Strawson
Bernard Williams (Balliol/All Souls)

Economists

Marian Bell (Hertford)
William Beveridge (Balliol)
Andrew Dilnot (St. John's)
John Hicks (Balliol)
James Meade (Oriel)
Walt Whitman Rostow
Ernst Schumacher
Adam Smith (Balliol)
Michael Spence (Magdalen)

Journalists

Peter Beinart (University)
Fiona Bruce (Hertford)
Robin Day (St. Edmund Hall)
David Dimbleby (Christ Church)
Bill Emmott (Magdalen)
Paul Foot (University)
Ian Hislop (Magdalen)
Richard Ingrams (University)
Natasha Kaplinsky (Hertford)
Martha Kearney (St. Anne's)
Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Rageh Omaar
Melanie Phillips (St. Anne's)
Peter Preston (St. John's)
William Rees-Mogg (Balliol)
Hugo Young (Balliol)

Sportsmen

Roger Bannister
Stephanie Cook (Lincoln)
C B Fry (Wadham)
David Hemery (St. Catherine's)
Matthew Pinsent (St Catherine's)

Historians

Timothy Garton Ash (Exeter/St. Antony's)
Niall Ferguson (Magdalen)
Edward Gibbon (Magdalen)
Barbara Levick (St. Hugh's/St. Hilda's)
W.L. Morton
A. L. Rowse (Oriel/All Souls)
A. J. P. Taylor (Oriel)
Arnold J. Toynbee (Balliol)
Hugh Trevor-Roper (Christ Church)

Media Moguls

Rupert Murdoch (Worcester)
Howard Stringer (Merton)

Architects

Christopher Wren (Wadham)
John Ruskin (Christ Church)

Explorers and Adventurers

Gertrude Bell (Lady Margaret Hall)
Richard Burton (orientalist) (Trinity)
T. E. Lawrence ('Lawrence of Arabia') (Jesus/All Souls)
Walter Raleigh (Oriel)
Cecil Rhodes (Oriel)

Others

Jana Bennett
Christopher Bland Chairman of British Telecom
Beau Brummell
Richard Curtis
Oz Clarke (Pembroke)
Alfred Douglas (Magdalen)
Rod Eddington
William Fulbright
J. Paul Getty (St. Catherine's)
Edward Burne-Jones (Exeter)
Eglantyne Jebb (Save the Children Fund)
Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)
Colin Lucas (Lincoln)
Max More (St. Anne's)
Max Nicholson (Hertford)
Joseph Nye
James Ogilthorpe (Corpus)
William Penn (Christ Church)
John Radcliffe
Jancis Robinson wine critic (St. Anne's)
William de Silva (University)
Mark Thompson (Merton)
Chad Varah
Naomi Wolf (New)

External Links

Famous Oxford Alumni (http://blanchflower.org/alumni/oxfalumn.html)
Short Alumni List Published by Oxford (http://www.ox.ac.uk/aboutoxford/famous.shtml)

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