List of people associated with the University of Oxford

Below is an overview of well-known personalities associated with the University of Oxford , sorted by professional group . The list does not claim to be complete.

politics

Monarchs

• Abdullah II. Bin al-Hussein (* 1962), King of Jordan (1999–)
• Andrew Bertie (1929-2008), Grand Master of the Order of Malta (1988-2008)
• Edward VII (1841-1910), King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , Emperor of India (1901-1910)
• Edward VIII (1894–1972), King of the United Kingdom and Emperor of India (1936)
• George Tupou V (1948–2012), King of Tonga (2006–2012)
• Harald V. (Norway) (* 1937), King of Norway (1991–)
• Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck (* 1980), King of Bhutan (2006–)
• Moshoeshoe II (1938–1996), King of Lesotho (1966–1990)
• Muhammad V (Kelantan) (* 1969), Sultan of Kelantan (2010–) and King of Malaysia (2016–2019)
• Naruhito (* 1960), Emperor of Japan (2019–)
• Olav V (Norway) (1903–1991), King of Norway (1957–1991)
• Wilhelm II (Netherlands) (1792–1849), King of the Netherlands , Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Duke of Limburg (1840–1849)

British Prime Minister

• Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1674–1743), Prime Minister (1742–1743)
• Henry Pelham (1694–1754), Prime Minister (1743–1746)
• George Grenville (1712-1770), Prime Minister (1763-1765)
• William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1778), Prime Minister (1766–1768)
• Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (1732–1792), Prime Minister (1770–1782)
• William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737–1805), Prime Minister (1782–1783)
• William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738–1809), Prime Minister (1783 and 1807–1809)
• Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757–1844), Prime Minister (1801–1804)
• William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759–1834), Prime Minister (1806–1807)
• Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770-1828), Prime Minister (1812-1827)
• George Canning (1770–1827), Prime Minister 1827
• Robert Peel (1788–1850), Prime Minister (1834–1835 and 1841–1846)
• Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799–1869), Prime Minister (1852, 1858–1859, and 1866–1868)
• William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898), Prime Minister (1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886, and 1892–1894)
• Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903), Prime Minister (1885–1886, 1886–1892 and 1895–1902)
• Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847–1929), Prime Minister (1894–1895)
• Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928), Prime Minister (1908-1916)
• Clement Attlee (1883-1967), Prime Minister (1945-1951)
• Anthony Eden (1897–1977), Prime Minister (1955–1957)
• Harold Macmillan (1894–1986), Prime Minister (1957–1963)
• Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995), Prime Minister (1963–1964)
• Harold Wilson (1916–1995), Prime Minister (1964–1970 and 1974–1976)
• Edward Heath (1916-2005), Prime Minister (1970-1974)
• Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), Prime Minister (1979–1990)
• Tony Blair (* 1953), Prime Minister (1997-2007)
• David Cameron (born 1966), Prime Minister (2010-2015)
• Theresa May (* 1956), Prime Minister (2016–2019)
• Boris Johnson (* 1964), Prime Minister (2019–)

Heads of State and Government

• Tony Abbott (* 1957), 28th Prime Minister of Australia (2013-2015)
• Grantley Herbert Adams (1898–1971), Prime Minister of Barbados (1954–1958) and the West Indian Federation (1958–1962)
• John Michael G. Adams (1931–1985), Prime Minister of Barbados (1976–1985)
• Edward Akufo-Addo (1906–1979), President of Ghana (1970–1972)
• Solomon Bandaranaike (1899–1959), Prime Minister of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka (1956–1959)
• Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007), Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990 and 1993–1996)
• Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (1928–1979), President of Pakistan (1971–1973) and Prime Minister (1973–1977)
• Kofi Abrefa Busia (1913–1978), Prime Minister of Ghana (1969–1972)
• Bill Clinton (born 1946), 42nd President of the United States of America (1993–2001)
• Malcolm Fraser (1930–2015), 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (1975–83)
• Indira Gandhi (1917–1984), Prime Minister of India (1966–1977 and 1980–1984)
• Penaia Ganilau (1918-1993), President of Fiji (1987-1993)
• John Gorton (1911–2002), 19th Prime Minister of Australia (1932–1935)
• Bob Hawke (1929-2019), 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (1983-1991)
• Guðni Th. Jóhannesson (* 1968), President of Iceland (2016–)
• Seretse Khama (1921–1980), 1st President of Botswana (1966–1980)
• Liaquat Ali Khan (1896–1951), first Prime Minister of Pakistan (1947–1951)
• Imran Khan (* 1952), Prime Minister of Pakistan (2018–)
• Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (* 1938), President of Peru (2016-2018)
• John Kufuor (* 1938), President of Ghana (2001–2009)
• Aung San Suu Kyi (* 1945), Prime Minister of Myanmar (2016–)
• Farooq Leghari (1940-2010), President of Pakistan (1993-1997)
• Norman Manley (1893–1969), 1st Prime Minister of Jamaica (1959–1962)
• Kamisese Mara (1920-2004), President of Fiji (1993-2000)
• Dominic Mintoff (1916–2012), 8th Prime Minister of Malta (1971–1984)
• Festus Mogae (* 1939), President of Botswana (1998–2008)
• Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (1933–2011), 1st President of Biafra (1967–1970)
• Viktor Orbán (* 1963), Prime Minister of Hungary (1998–2002 and 2010–)
• Lester Pearson (1897–1972), 14th Prime Minister of Canada (1963–1968)
• Kukrit Pramoj (1911–1995), Prime Minister of Thailand (1975–1976)
• Seni Pramoj (1905–1997), Prime Minister of Thailand (1945–1946, 1975 and 1976)
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975), 2nd President of India (1962–1967)
• José Ramos-Horta (* 1949), 4th President of East Timor (2008–2012)
• Arthur NR Robinson (1926–2014), 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago (1997–2003)
• Kevin Rudd (* 1957), 26th Prime Minister of Australia (2007-2010 and 2013)
• Risto Ryti (1889–1956), Prime Minister of Finland (1940–1944)
• Wasim Sajjad (* 1941), Acting President of Pakistan (1997–1998)
• Manmohan Singh (* 1932), Prime Minister of India (2004–2014)
• Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892–1963), 5th Prime Minister of Pakistan (1956–1957)
• Enele Sopoaga (* 1956), Prime Minister of Tuvalu (2013-2019)
• Malcolm Turnbull (* 1954), 29th Prime Minister of Australia (2015-2018)
• John Turner (born 1929), 17th Prime Minister of Canada 1984
• Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu (* 1968), Prime Minister of Romania 2012
• Alvaro Uribe (* 1952), 31st President of Colombia (2002-2010)
• Abhisit Vejjajiva (* 1964), Prime Minister of Thailand (2008-2011)
• Richard von Weizsäcker (1920–2015), 6th Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1984–1994)

Other well-known politicians

• Thomas More (1478–1535), humanist and Lord Chancellor of England (1529–1532)
• William Penn (1644–1718), founder of the Pennsylvania Colony
• Peter Torry (* 1948), British Ambassador to Berlin (2003-2007)
• Peter Ramsbotham, 3rd Viscount Soulbury (1919–2010), British Ambassador to Washington (1974–1977) and Governor of Bermuda (1977–1980)
• Norbert Lammert (* 1948), Chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and former President of the Bundestag (2005-2017)

Literati

• Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), English writer and poet
• Martin Amis (* 1949), English writer
• WH Auden (1907–1973), English writer
• Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), French-British writer
• John Betjeman (1906–1984), British poet and journalist
• Vera Brittain (1893-1970), British writer, feminist and pacifist
• AS Byatt (* 1936), British writer
• George Gordon Byron (1788–1824), British poet and representative of English Romanticism
• Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), British novelist, mathematician and author of Alice in Wonderland
• John Donne (1572–1631), English writer
• TS Eliot (1888–1965), poet, playwright and essayist, Nobel Prize winner
• Zlata Filipović (* 1980), Bosnian diary author and writer
• John Galsworthy (1867–1933), English novelist and playwright
• Robert Graves (1895–1985), British writer and poet
• Graham Greene (1904–1991), British novelist, playwright and screenwriter
• Seamus Heaney (1939–2013), Irish writer and Nobel Prize for Literature
• Joseph Heller (1923–1999), American writer
• Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011), British-American author, journalist and literary critic
• Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British writer and author of the dystopian novel Brave New World
• Harper Lee (1926–2016), American writer and Pulitzer Prize winner
• CS Lewis (1898–1963), Irish writer and literary scholar
• Philip Pullman (* 1946), English-speaking writer
• Salman Rushdie (* 1947), British-Indian novelist and essayist
• Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), English crime novelist and translator
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English writer
• Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), British writer
• JRR Tolkien (1892–1973) British writer and philologist, author of Lord of the Rings
• Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), British writer
• Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Irish poet, novelist, playwright and critic

Representatives of various academic disciplines

Natural scientist

• Stephen Hawking (1942–2018), British theoretical physicist
• Richard Dawkins (* 1941), British zoologist, biologist and author
• Tim Berners-Lee (* 1955), British computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web
• Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994), British biochemist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Alec John Jeffreys (born 1950), British geneticist
• Dave Goulson (* 1965), British biologist

Philosophers

• Johannes Duns Scotus (1266–1308), Scottish theologian and scholastic philosopher
• Wilhelm von Ockham (1288–1347), Franciscan, philosopher and scholastic
• Adam Smith (1723–1790), Scottish moral philosopher, enlightener and founder of classical economics
• John Locke (1632–1704), English philosopher and enlightenment thinker , defined the right of resistance
• John Langshaw Austin (1911–1960), English philosopher and linguist, founder of speech act theory
• Richard Robinson (1902-1996), English philosopher
• Richard Mervyn Hare (1919–2002), English moral philosopher
• John Searle (* 1932), American philosopher
• Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), British philosopher
• Paul Grice (1913–1988), English philosopher
• Alfred Jules Ayer (1910–1989), British philosopher and logician
• Daniel von Wachter (* 1970), German religious philosopher and director of the International Academy for Philosophy
• Derek Parfit (1942-2017), British philosopher
• Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), Anglo-Irish writer and philosopher

Theologians

• John Wyclif (1330–1384), English philosopher, theologian and church reformer
• Edmund Campion (1540–1581), monk in the Jesuit order and martyr of the Catholic Church
• Mirza Nasir Ahmad (1909–1982), Indian-Pakistani 3rd Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
• Cuthbert Mayne (approx. 1544–1577), English priest and martyr
• Jean de Menasce (1902–1973), French Dominican of Egyptian origin
• Hieronymus von Prag (1379-1416), Bohemian scholar and co-founder of the Hussite movement
• John Wesley (1703–1791), English revival preacher and one of the founders of Methodism
• John Henry Newman (1801–1890), British pastor and professor of theology in the Church of England , famous convert to the Roman Catholic Church and later cardinal
• John Thiessen (1906–1986), American-Dutch missionary and minister

historian

• Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975), British cultural theorist and philosopher of history
• Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), British historian
• Michael Paulwitz (* 1965), German historian, journalist and editor
• Thomas Weber (* 1974), German historian
• Timothy Garton Ash (born 1955), British historian
• George Nicholas Georgano (1932-2017), British author

Other personalities

• Kate Beckinsale (born 1973), British actress
• TE Lawrence (1888-1935), explorer and writer
• Rupert Murdoch (* 1931), American media entrepreneur
• Walter Raleigh (approx. 1523-1618), explorer
• Christopher Wren (1632–1723), British astronomer and architect
• Rowan Atkinson (born 1955), British comedian known as Mr. Bean
• Hans Bernd von Haeften (1905–1944), German lawyer and resistance fighter against National Socialism
• Adam von Trott zu Solz (1909–1944), German lawyer, diplomat and resistance fighter
• Rosamund Pike (* 1979), actress
• Konstantinos A. Doxiadis (1913–1975), architect, known as the urban planner for the Pakistani capital Islamabad and the city of Rawalpindi .
• Hugh Dancy (* 1975), British film actor and model
• Howard Marks (1975–2016), former drug dealer, author, cannabis activist, storyteller
• Emma Watson (born 1990), actress
• Ghil'ad Zuckermann (* 1971), linguist
• Hugh Grant (born 1960), actor
• Malala Yousafzai (* 1997), Pakistani blogger and child rights activist

Individual evidence

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