List of Rhodes Scholars

This page provides a list of Notable Rhodes Scholarship recipients - in sort by Year by Surname. See also: Category:Rhodes scholars

Key to the columns in the main table:

Column label	Description of Column contents
Name	The name of the scholarship recipient, including link to their Wikipedia page. (As this is a list of Notable recipients, all are eligible for a Wikipedia page.)
University	The University where the eligible studies were performed. Note that under the terms of Rhodes' will, there are only 14 regions which nominate candidates - see Rhodes Scholarship#Allocations.
Oxford College	The Oxford College where the studies supported by the scholarship were performed.
Year	The year in which the scholarship was awarded.
Notability	A brief summary of the recipient's notability - detailed information appears on the recipient's Wikipedia page.

Name	University	Oxford College	Year	Notability
John Behan	Melbourne	Hertford	1904	Lawyer and academic (University and Trinity Colleges)
Norman Jolly	Adelaide	Balliol	1904	Forester who played First-class cricket for Worcestershire
John J. Tigert	Vanderbilt	Pembroke	1904	U.S. Commissioner of Education (1921–1928), President of University of Florida (1928–1947)
Roy Robinson	Adelaide	Magdalen	1905	The first Baron Robinson, regarded as the chief architect of state forestry in Great Britain
Warren Ault	Baker	Jesus	1907	Historian, who taught at Boston University from 1913 to 1957, becoming Huntington Professor of History
Clarence H. Haring	Harvard	New College	1907	American historian
Alain LeRoy Locke	Harvard	Hertford	1907	Philosopher, writer, educator and Harlem Renaissance patron
Neal Macrossan	Queensland	Magdalen	1907	Chief Justice of Queensland 1946–1955
Frank E. Holman	Utah	Exeter	1908	President of the [[American Bar Association] (1948)
Henry Fry	Adelaide	Balliol	1909	Physician and anthropologist
Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff	Germany	Trinity	1909	German diplomat, executed for conspiracy against Hitler in 1945
Marius Barbeau	Laval	Oriel	1910	Canadian ethnographer and folklorist
Elmer Davis	Franklin College	Queen's	1910	American newsman, Director of the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II
Ralph Hartley	Utah	St John's	1910	Inventor of the Hartley oscillator, Mathematician, and winner of the IRE Medal of Honor (1946)
Jan Hofmeyr	Cape Town	Balliol	1910	Academic, public administrator, and South African liberal politician
Earnest A. Hooten	Wisconsin	University	1910	American physical anthropologist
Edwin Hubble	Chicago	Queen's	1910	American astronomer
John Crowe Ransom	Vanderbilt	Christ Church	1910	Poet
Frank Aydelotte	Indiana	Brasenose	1911	President of Swarthmore College (1921–1940)
Cecil Madigan	Adelaide	Magdalen	1911	Explorer and geologist
Edmund Herring	Melbourne	New College	1912	Soldier, barrister, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Lieutenant governor of Victoria
Frido von Senger		St John's	1912	German General in WWII
Brand Blanshard	Michigan	Merton	1913	Philosopher
Henry Brose	Adelaide	Christ Church	1913	Physicist, academic, pathologist, biochemist
Charles R. Clason	Bates College	Christ Church	1914	U.S. Congressman (Massachusetts) (1937–1949)
Wilfrid Kent Hughes		Christ Church	1914	Australian soldier, Olympian and Olympic Games organiser, author, and federal and state government minister.
Norman Manley		Jesus	1914	Chief Minister of Jamaica 1955–1959, Premier of Jamaica 1959–1962
Wilder Penfield	Princeton	Merton	1914	Canadian neurosurgeon
Frederick Woolnough Paterson	Queensland	Merton	1918	The only Australian Communist politician ever to win an election
John Monk Saunders	Washington	Magdalen	1918	Screenwriter of Wings and The Dawn Patrol
Herbert Eugene Clefton	Minnesota	Magdalen	1919	Teacher in Minneapolis, then a professor at the University of Minnesota
Roland Michener	Alberta	Hertford	1919	Governor General of Canada (1967–1974), lawyer, politician
John Marshall Harlan II	Princeton	Balliol	1920	Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1955–1971)
Howard Florey	Adelaide	Magdalen	1921	Australian pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1945 (for penicillin)
Keith Hancock	Melbourne	Balliol	1921	Historian, academic, biographer
William Stevenson	Princeton	Balliol	1922	American Olympic gold medalist in 1924 (Paris), President of Oberlin College (1946–1961), U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines (1961–1965)
Leonard Huxley	Tasmania	New College	1923	Australian physicist
Hervey M. Cleckley	Georgia	University	1924	Psychiatrist, pioneer in the field of psychopathy, co-author of The Three Faces of Eve
John Niemeyer Findlay	Pretoria	Balliol	1924	Philosopher, Gifford lecturer. Meinong, Hegel, Husserl and Wittgenstein scholar
John Eccles	Melbourne	Magdalen	1925	Australian scientist (neurophysiologist), Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1963, for his work on the synapse
J. William Fulbright	Arkansas	Pembroke	1925	U.S. Senator for Arkansas (1945–1974), originator of the Fulbright Fellowship program
Robert J. Van de Graaff	Alabama	Queen's	1925	Physicist, Inventor, Academic (M.I.T. & Princeton), Inventor of the eponymous Van de Graaff generator
George Paton	Melbourne	Magdalen	1926	Vice Chancellor University of Melbourne (1951–1968)
Holbrook Mann MacNeille	Swarthmore	Balliol	1928	Mathematician, Academic, Scientific Director Office of Scientific Research and Development
Robert Penn Warren	Vanderbilt	New College	1928	American poet and critic
Cleanth Brooks	Vanderbilt & Tulane	Exeter	1929	American literary critic
George Stanley	Alberta	Keble	1929	Canadian historian, designer of Canadian flag, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
Charles Herbert Little	Toronto	Brasenose	1930	Director of Canadian Naval Intelligence during World War II
"Fritz" Schumacher	Bonn and Berlin	New College	1930	Economist, statistician, author, social theorist, public speaker
Carl Albert	Oklahoma	St Peter's	1931	Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives (1971-1977), U.S. Congressman (Oklahoma), 1947-1977
Bram Fischer	Bloemfontein	New College	1931	Anti-apartheid activist and lawyer
Ted Jolliffe	Toronto	Christ Church	1931	Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (1943–1945, 1948–1951)
Jack Lovelock	Otago	Exeter	1931	1500 metre Olympic Gold medallist in 1936 Berlin Olympics
Dean Rusk	Davidson	St John's	1931	U.S. Secretary of State, 1961-1969
Adam von Trott zu Solz	Germany	Balliol	1931	German diplomat and anti-Nazi patriot, executed in 1944
David Lewis	McGill	Lincoln	1932	Member of parliament and leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada (1971–1975)
W. L. Morton	Manitoba	St John's	1932	Canadian historian
Ivan A. Getting	M.I.T.	Merton	1933	American weapons scientist and co-inventor of GPS technology
Daniel Boorstin	Harvard	Balliol	1934	U.S. Librarian of Congress (1975–1987)
Max Gluckman	Transvaal	Exeter	1934	South African-British-Israeli social anthropologist
Wilbur Jackett	Saskatchewan	Queen's	1934	Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada (1971–1979)
George C. McGhee	SMU	Queen's	1934	U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (1952–1953) and to Germany (1963–1968)
John Templeton	Yale	Balliol	1934	Businessman and founder of Templeton College, Oxford
Arnold Smith	Ontario	Christ Church	1935	First Secretary-General of the Commonwealth
Walter H. Stockmayer	M.I.T.	Jesus	1935	American polymer chemist
Mervyn Austin	Melbourne	Christ Church	1936	Australian Headmaster (Newington) and Professor of Classics and Ancient History (UWA)
Gordon A. Craig	Princeton	Balliol	1936	American historian and OSS veteran
Dan Davin	Otago	Balliol	1936	New Zealand novelist and head of Oxford University Press
Philip Mayer Kaiser	Wisconsin	Balliol	1936	U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania (1961-1964), Hungary (1977-1980), and Austria (1980-1981), U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs (1949-1953), Special Assistant to Governor Averell Harriman (1955-1959)
John B. Oakes	Princeton	Queen's	1936	New York Times editor of the editorial page, 1961-1976
Richard Luyt	Cape Town	Trinity	1937	Soldier, statesman and principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town
Howard K. Smith	Tulane	Merton	1937	Broadcast journalist
W. Denham Sutcliffe		Hertford	1937	English scholar at Bates College, Kenyon, and Harvard.
Courtney Craig Smith	Iowa	Merton	1938	Educationalist, President of Swarthmore College
Byron White	Colorado	Hertford	1938	Football player, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1962-1993
Dominic Mintoff	Malta	Hertford	1939	Prime Minister of Malta, 1955-1957 & 1971-1984
Jack Davis	British Columbia	St. John's	1939	Canadian Minister of the Environment, 1968-1974 & B.C. Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources 1986–1991
Zelman Cowen	Melbourne	New College	1941	Australian jurist and academic, Governor General of Australia (1977–1982)
Paul J. Bohannan	Arizona	Queen's	1947	American social anthropologist
Alastair Gillespie	McGill	Queen's	1947	Canadian politician, cabinet minister
James McNaughton Hester	Princeton	Pembroke	1947	First Rector of the United Nations University, President of New York University
Nicholas Katzenbach	Princeton	Balliol	1947	U.S. Attorney General (1965-1966), U.S. Under-Secretary of State (1966-1969)
Bernard W. Rogers	U.S. Military Academy	University	1947	American general, Supreme Allied Commander, NATO
Stansfield Turner	U.S. Naval Academy	Exeter	1947	American admiral, Director of Central Intelligence (1977-1981)
Guy Davenport	Duke	Merton	1948	American writer and man of letters
Renfrey Potts	Adelaide	Queen's	1948	Applied mathematician, defined the Potts model
Eric Prabhakar	India	Christ Church	1948	Indian Olympic athlete
Robert Burchfield	Victoria (NZ)	Magdalen	1949	New Zealand lexicographer, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary
Peter Durack	Western Australia	Lincoln	1949	Australian politician, Commonwealth Attorney General, author
John Turner	British Columbia	Magdalen	1949	Liberal Party of Canada leader and Prime Minister of Canada, 1984
James H. Billington	Princeton	Balliol	1950	Academic, Historian, Librarian of U.S. Congress, 1987-
John Brademas	Harvard	Brasenose	1950	U.S. Congressman (Indiana) 1959-1981, President of New York University 1981-1992
Tanjore R. Anantharaman	India	Trinity	1951	Indian metallurgist
Thomas A. Bartlett	Oregon	University	1951	President of the American University in Cairo, 1963-1969, Interim President of AUC, 2002-2003; Chancellor of the University of Alabama System, 1981-1989; Chancellor of the State University of New York, 1994-1996
Richard N. Gardner	Harvard and Yale	Balliol	1951	U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1977-1981) and to Spain (1993-1997), Academic
Stuart Hall	Jamaica	Merton	1951	British cultural theorist
A. Walton Litz	Princeton	Merton	1951	Professor of English Literature at Princeton (1956-1993), literary historian and critic, author, editor
James Gobbo	Melbourne	Magdalen	1952	Victorian Supreme Court Judge and Governor of Victoria
John Searle	Wisconsin	Christ Church	1952	American philosopher
Guido Calabresi	Yale	Magdalen	1953	American legal academic, Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, Professor and Dean at Yale Law School
Ronald Dworkin	Harvard	Magdalen	1953	American legal philosopher, Academic
Edward de Bono	Malta	Christ Church	1953	Maltese writer; psychologist; author
Julian Ogilvie Thompson	Diocesan College	Worcester	1953	South African Businessman, former chairman of De Beers and Anglo American
Bob Hawke	Western Australia	University	1953	World record for the fastest consumption a yard glass of beer, President ACTU 1969-1979, Prime Minister of Australia 1983-1991
Laurie Ackermann	Cape Province	Worcester	1954	Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Leonard Hoffmann	Cape Town	Queen's	1954	UK Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Norman Cantor	Manitoba and Princeton	Oriel	1954	Canadian historian of the Middle Ages
Richard Lugar	Denison	Pembroke	1954	U.S. Senator for Indiana, 1977-
Paul Sarbanes	Princeton	Balliol	1954	U.S. Senator for Maryland, 1977-2007
Robert Paxton	Washington & Lee	Merton	1954	Historian, academic
Ranjit Roy Chaudhury	India	Magdalen	1955	Medical scientist
John H. Morrison	New Mexico	University	1955	Senior partner, Kirkland & Ellis, and President of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars
Reynolds Price	Duke	Merton	1955	Poet and novelist
Johan Steyn	Cape Province	University	1955	UK Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Ian Wilson	Adelaide	Magdalen	1955	Solicitor, company director, former Australian politician, Minister for Home Affairs and Environment, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs
Neal Blewett	Tasmania	Jesus	1956	Australian academic, professor of politics, politician, cabinet minister, UK High Commissioner, etc.
Virendra Dayal	India	University	1956	Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
Elliott H. Levitas	Emory	University	1956	U.S. Congressman (Georgia), 1975-1985
Neil Leon Rudenstine	Princeton	New College	1956	Educator, President of Harvard University, 1991-2001
Arthur Kroeger	Alberta	Pembroke	1956	Canadian civil servant and diplomat, Chancellor of Carleton University, 1993-2002
Ranjit Bhatia	India	Jesus	1957	Indian Olympic athlete
Erich S. Gruen	Columbia	Merton	1957	Austrian-American classical scholar
Rex Nettleford	Jamaica	Oriel	1957	Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, author, dance director
Robert I. Rotberg	Princeton	University	1957	American political scientist
Aaron Sloman	Cape Town	Balliol	1957	Philosopher, AI researcher, Cognitive Scientist.
Michael Fried	Princeton	Merton	1958	American art historian and critic
Kris Kristofferson	Pomona	Merton	1958	American actor and musician
Joseph Nye, Jr.	Princeton	Exeter	1958	American political scientist, Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (1993-1994), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1994-1995), Dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
Jonathan Kozol	Harvard	Magdalen	1958	American writer and social activist
Manmohan Malhoutra	Delhi	Balliol	1958	Assistant Secretary-General of the Commonwealth
Desmond Morton	Royal Military College of Canada	Keble	1959	Historian and author
Peter M. Dawkins	U.S. Military Academy	Brasenose	1959	1958 Heisman Trophy Winner, Brigadier General, US Army (Ret. 1983), Chairman and CEO of Diversified Distribution Services, Travelers Group
Benjamin Bernard Dunlap		Wadham	1959	President of Wofford College, Professor of humanities
William Dennis Shaul	Notre Dame	Exeter	1960	Legal Counsel for House Banking Committee
Richard F. Celeste	Yale	Exeter	1960	Governor of Ohio (1983-1991), Director of the Peace Corps, U.S. Ambassador to India, President of Colorado College
Girish Karnad	Karnatak	Lincoln and Magdalen	1960	Indian Kannada-language playwright, film actor and director, screenwriter
Lester C. Thurow	Williams	Balliol	1960	American economist and author, professor of economics at MIT
Paul B. Van Buren	South Dakota	University	1960	A principal attorney for Pacific Telesis Group during the breakup of the Bell System, former chairman of The University of South Dakota Foundation
David Souter	Harvard	Magdalen	1961	Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1990-
Rex Adams	Duke	Merton	1962	Chairman of the Board of PBS, Dean of the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
David B. Frohnmayer	Harvard	Wadham	1962	President of the University of Oregon, 1994-; Attorney General of Oregon, 1980-1991
Bryan Gould	New Zealand	Balliol	1962	British politician, Labour MP for Dagenham
Paul Bamberg	Harvard	Balliol	1963	Senior Lecturer of Mathematics and Physics at Harvard University, Co-founded Dragon Systems and headed the research department that created Dragon NaturallySpeaking
David Boren	Yale	Balliol	1963	Governor of Oklahoma, 1975-1979); U.S. Senator for Oklahoma, 1979-1994; President of the University of Oklahoma
Walter B. Slocombe	Princeton	Balliol	1963	U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, 1994-2001, Senior Advisor for National Defense for the CPA, Baghdad, 2003
John Edgar Wideman	Pennsylvania	New College	1963	American writer, two-time recipient of PEN/Faulkner award
David R. Woods	Rhodes University	University	1963	Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University
R. James Woolsey	Stanford	St John's	1963	Director of Central Intelligence, 1993-1995
Montek Singh Ahluwalia	St. Stephen's	Magdalen	1964	Indian economist, first independent evaluator of IMF, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India
Robin Boadway	Royal Military College of Canada	Exeter	1964	Canadian economist and author
Dyson Heydon	Sydney	University	1964	High Court Judge of Australia
Larry Pressler	South Dakota	St Edmund	1964	American politician, U.S. Senator for South Dakota, 1979-1997
Wasim Sajjad	Pakistan	Wadham	1964	Pakistani politician and lawyer, Interim President of Pakistan, Chairman of the Senate
J. Gustave Speth	Yale	Balliol	1964	Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, 1993-1999, Dean of School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale
Bill Bradley	Princeton	Worcester	1965	American politician, NBA star, U.S. Senator for New Jersey, 1979-1997, and Democratic presidential candidate, 2000
Aftab Seth	India	Christ Church	1965	Indian Ambassador to Japan
Daryl Williams	Western Australia	Wadham	1965	Australian politician, Liberal Member of the House of Representatives, 1993-2004, Attorney-General of Australia 1996-2003
Gilles Berthiaume		Keble	1966	Program Manager, Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Wesley Clark	U.S. Military Academy	Magdalen	1966	United States Army general, Supreme Allied Commander, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1997-2000; Democratic presidential candidate, 2004
A. Michael Spence	Princeton	Magdalen	1966	Canadian economist, Nobel Prize in Economics for 2001
Thomas Frerking	Harvard	Trinity	1966	Abbot, Abbey of St. Mary and St. Louis
David E. Kendall	Wabash	Worcester	1966	American lawyer, President Clinton's personal lawyer
Terrence Malick	Harvard	Magdalen	1966	American film director of The Thin Red Line, Badlands, and The New World
Thomas H. Allen	Bowdoin	Wadham	1967	American politician, U.S. Congressman (Maine), 1997-
John Doyle	Adelaide	Magdalen	1967	Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, 1995-
David C. Hardesty, Jr.	West Virginia	Queen's	1967	President of West Virginia University
J. Michael Kirchberg, Jr.	California	Brasenose	1967	USNA, American educator
Deepak Nayyar	India	Balliol	1967	Vice Chancellor of Delhi University
Stephen A. Oxman	New Jersey	New College	1967	U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs, 1993-1994, President of the Board of Trustees of Princeton University, 2006 - present.
Peter Cameron	Queensland	Balliol	1968	Mathematician, academic
Peter Conrad	Tasmania	New College	1968	Academic (English literature)
Robert McCallum, Jr.	Yale	Christ Church	1968	American lawyer, U.S. Associate Attorney General, 2003-
Rex Murphy	Memorial University	St Edmund	1968	Canadian commentator
Robert Reich	Dartmouth	University	1968	American commentator and author, U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1993-1997
Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr.	Harvard	Exeter	1968	Publisher and CEO of The Washington Post
Bill Clinton	Georgetown	University	1968	American politician, 42nd President of the United States, 1993-2001, Governor of Arkansas, 1979-1981 & 1983-1993
William A. Fletcher	Harvard	Merton	1968	Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Strobe Talbott	Yale	Magdalen	1968	American diplomat and journalist, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (1994-2001), President of the Brookings Institution
Chris Laidlaw	Otago	Merton	1969	New Zealand All Black, diplomat, MP, author, Human Rights Commissioner and Race Relations Conciliator
Ira Magaziner	Brown	Balliol	1969	White House Senior Aide, 1993-1999, originator of ICANN
Bob Rae	Toronto	Balliol	1969	Canadian politician, former Premier of Ontario
Danny Williams	Memorial University	Keble	1969	Lawyer and businessman, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
Dennis C. Blair	U.S. Naval Academy	University	1970	Retired 4-star Admiral, President of the Institute for Defense Analyses and former Commander in Chief of U.S. Pacific Command
James Fallows	Harvard	Queen's	1970	American writer (The Atlantic Monthly)
Kenneth Hayne	Melbourne	Exeter	1970	Australian barrister, solicitor and judge: Supreme Court of Victoria (1992-95); Court of Appeals division of the Supreme Court of Victoria (1995-97); Puisne Justice of the High Court of Australia (1997-)
Geoffrey Robertson	Sydney	University	1970	Barrister and international human rights activist
Richard H. Trainor	Brown and Princeton	Merton	1970	Principal of King's College London
Franklin Raines	Harvard	Magdalen	1971	Chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae, 1999-2004; Director of the Office of Management and Budget, 1996-1998
Kurt Schmoke	Yale	Balliol	1971	Mayor of Baltimore, 1987-1999; Dean of Howard University School of Law
James R. Atlas	Illinois	New College	1971	American writer (The New Yorker)
Geoff Gallop	Western Australia	St John's	1972	Academic, Premier of Western Australia, 2001-2006
Michael Kinsley	Harvard	Magdalen	1972	American journalist (Los Angeles Times), founder of Slate magazine, editor of The New Republic
Tom Birmingham	Harvard	Exeter	1972	President of the Massachusetts Senate, Candidate for Democratic nomination for Governor of Massachusetts, 2002
Kim Beazley	Western Australia	Balliol	1973	Australian politician, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Opposition
Richard N. Haass	Oberlin	Wadham & St. Anthony's	1973	President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Director of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State, 2001-2003
E. J. Dionne	Harvard	Balliol	1973	American journalist and Washington Post columnist
Paul Blustein	Wisconsin	Merton	1973	American author and journalist (The Washington Post)
Alex Sceberras Trigona	Malta	Oriel	1973	Foreign Minister of Malta 1981-1987
Rod Eddington	Western Australia	Lincoln	1974	Former CEO of British Airways, Director of News Corporation
Charles Thomas McMillen	Maryland	University	1974	U.S. Olympian, NBA basketball player, U.S. Congressman (Maryland), 1987-1993
Walter Isaacson	Harvard	Pembroke	1974	Author, President of the Aspen Institute, Managing Editor of Time magazine (1995-2001), Chairman and CEO of CNN
Elliot F. Gerson	Connecticut	Magdalen	1974	American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, Vice President of the Aspen Institute, Deputy Attorney General of Connecticut
Edwin Cameron	Stellenbosch University	Keble	1975	Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, African National Congress lawyer and AIDS activist
Mike Fitzpatrick	Western Australia	St. John's	1975	Australian businessman, sporting administrator and former Australian rules footballer
Larry Sabato	Virginia and Princeton	Queen's	1975	American political scientist
Russ Feingold	Wisconsin	Magdalen	1975	U.S. Senator for Wisconsin, 1993-
Michael L'Estrange	Sydney		1975	Australian diplomat and senior public servant
Michael Sandel	Brandeis	Balliol	1975	American political philosopher and professor at Harvard University
Mel Reynolds	Illinois	Lincoln	1975	U.S. Congressman (Illinois), 1993-1995
Randall Kennedy	Princeton	Balliol	1977	Harvard Law School Professor
Jack Phillips	McGill	Balliol	1978	American Political Advisor and Inventor
Malcolm Turnbull	Sydney	Brasenose	1978	Australian lawyer, banker and politician. Former Minister for Environment and Water Resources. Leader of the Liberal party.
David Naylor	Toronto	Hertford	1979	Canadian medical researcher, President of the University of Toronto
Nancy-Ann Min DeParle	Tennessee	Balliol	1979	Administrator of the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration, 1997-2000
Stephen Gumley	Tasmania	St. Catherine's	1979	Chief Executive Officer of the Defence Materiel Organisation (Australia)
Robert Maloney	Harvard	Magdalen	1979	Ophthalmologist, LASIK specialist, Extreme Makeover ophthalmologist
Clark Ervin	Harvard	St Catherine's	1980	Former Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Elsdon Storey	Melbourne	Magdalen & Wolfson	1980	Australian neurologist
Tony Abbott	Sydney	Queen's	1981	Australian politician, Former Minister of health and aging
Nicholas D. Kristof	Harvard	Magdalen	1981	New York Times reporter and columnist, 2-time Pulitzer Prize winner
Heather Wilson	USAF Academy	Jesus	1982	U.S. Congresswoman (New Mexico), 1998-
Christopher Eisgruber	Oregon	University	1983	Provost of Princeton University
Bill Halter	Stanford	St John's	1983	Arkansas Lt. Governor.
Elizabeth Kiss	Davidson	Balliol	1983	President of Agnes Scott College.
David Vitter	Harvard	Magdalen	1983	U.S. Senator (Louisiana), 2005-
Richard Flanagan	Tasmania	Worcester	1984	Australian author, winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize
Brian Greene	Harvard	Magdalen	1984	American physicist and string theorist
Christopher Hedrick	Stanford	Magdalen	1984	President and CEO of Intrepid Learning Solutions
Robert Malley	Connecticut	Magdalen	1984	Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs, National Security Council, 1997-2001
George Stephanopoulos	Columbia	Balliol	1984	Moderator of ABC's This Week and communications director for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign
Roosevelt Thompson	Yale	St John's	1984	Community activist, Little Rock, Arkansas
Peter Rathjen	Adelaide	New College	1985	Australian stem cell scientist, Deputy Vice-Chancellor(Research), University of Melbourne 2006-
Ronald Tenpas	Michigan State	Balliol	1985	Associate Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, 2005-
Naomi Wolf	Yale	New College	1985	American author and feminist social critic
Susan E. Rice	Stanford	New College	1986	U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, 1997-2001
Graham Steele	Manitoba	St Edmund	1986	Member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, 2001 - Present
Joseph M. Torsella	Pennsylvania	New College	1986	President and CEO of the National Constitution Center 2006-
David Chalmers	Adelaide	Lincoln	1987	Australian philosopher of mind
Jim Collins	Holy Cross	Balliol	1987	MacArthur "genius" bioengineer and inventor
Atul Gawande	Stanford	Balliol	1987	Surgeon and New Yorker medical writer
Sagarika Ghose-Sardesai	St. Stephen's College, Delhi	Magdalen and St. Antony's	1987	Indian journalist
David Kirk	Otago	Worcester	1987	Captain of the New Zealand All Blacks who won the inaugural Rugby (Union) World Cup in 1987; CEO of Fairfax Media, 2005–present
Jacob Weisberg	Yale	New College	1987	Journalist and editor of Slate magazine
Bryan Horrigan	Queensland	University	1986	Australian researcher, consultant, commentator and professional speaker on specialised legal, business, and governmental topics
Brad Carson	Baylor	Trinity	1989	U.S. Congressman (Oklahoma), 2001-2005
Arthur Mutambara	Zimbabwe	Merton	1991	Zimbabwean politician who became President of one faction of the Movement for Democratic Change in 2006
Cory Booker	Stanford	Queen's	1992	Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
Noah Feldman	Harvard	Christ Church	1992	American author, Harvard University law professor, constitutional adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, 2003-2005
Nikolas Gvosdev	Florida	St Antony's	1992	Editor of The National Interest
Simon Hollingsworth		Exeter	1992	Australian Olympic (1992, 1996) and Commonwealth Games (1990, 1994) athlete (400m hurdles)
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal	Brown	New College	1992	Governor of (Louisiana) 2008-, U.S. Congressman (Louisiana), 2005-2007, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, 2001-2004, President of the University of Louisiana System, 1999-2001
Sanjeev Sanyal	Delhi	St John's	1992	Asian economist, banker and conservationist
Peter Beinart	Yale	University	1993	Editor of The New Republic
Eric Garcetti	Columbia	Queen's	1993	President of the Los Angeles City Council
Randal Pinkett	Rutgers	Keble	1994	President and CEO of BCT Partners, and winner of The Apprentice 4
Rachel Maddow	Stanford	Lincoln	1995	Host of The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC and Air America Radio
Alexander Straub	Darmstadt and Cornell	St John's	1996	London-based German Entrepreneur and Financier
Annette Salmeen	California	St John's	1997	1996 American Olympic gold medalist in swimming
Rachel Simmons	Vassar	Lincoln	1998	American author of Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls (Harcourt, 2002)
Ben Cannon	Washington U	Corpus Christi	1999	Oregon State Representative
Marc Kielburger	Harvard	University	1999	Canadian humanitarian and activist, Free The Children
Fasi Zaka	Peshawar	Somerville	2001	Pakistani Political Columnist, Satirical TV Show Host, Radio Talkshow Host and Award Winning Advertiser
Jonathan Bonnitcha	Sydney	Magdalen	2006	Australian windsurfer and sailor