Amanda Brookfield

Edward Herbert, Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1582?–1648), diplomat and philosopher (matriculated 1596)

John Wood (1728–81), architect of the Royal Crescent and New Assembly Rooms, Bath (matriculated 1747)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), poet (matriculated 1810)

C S Lewis (1898–1963), theologian and writer of the Narnia books (matriculated 1917)

Sir Stephen Spender (1909–95), poet (matriculated 1927)

A D Hope (1907-2000), poet (matriculated 1928)

Sir Philip Dowson (1924–2014), architect, and President of Royal Academy of Arts, 1993–9 (matriculated 1943)

Warren Mitchell (1926–2015), actor, best known for the role of Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part (matriculated1944 )

“The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ronald Eyre (1929–92), theatre and television director (matriculated 1949)

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad, (Sir Vidia), Naipaul (1932–2018), winner of Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 (matriculated 1950)

Andrew Motion

Patrick Dromgoole (1930–), theatre, film and television director (matriculated 1951)

Shivadhar Srinivasa [Shiva] Naipaul (1945–85), writer (matriculated 1964)

Sir Andrew Motion (1952–), Poet Laureate, 1999–2009 (matriculated 1971)

Sandy Nairne (1953–), Director of the National Portrait Gallery 2002–15 (matriculated 1971)

Amanda Brookfield (1960–), novelist (matriculated 1979)

Caroline Campbell (1973-), Director of the National Gallery in Ireland, 2022- (matriculated 1991)

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Helen Cooper

Sir William Jones (1746–94), orientalist and judge (matriculated 1764; Fellow 1766-83)

Francis Herbert Bradley (1846–1924), philosopher and holder of Order of Merit (matriculated 1865)

Robin Collingwood (1889–1943), philosopher and historian (matriculated 1908)

Sir Peter Strawson (1919–2006), philosopher (Fellow 1948-68)

Ernst Badian (1925–2011) ancient historian (matriculated 1948)

Herbert Hart (1907–92), legal philosopher (Fellow 1952-73)

Martin West (1937–2015),classicist (Fellow 1963-74)

“A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.” – Robin Collingwood

John Finnis (1940–), legal philosopher (matriculated 1962; Fellow 1966-2010)

Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013), legal philosopher (Fellow 1969-98)

Helen Cooper (1947–), Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English, University of Cambridge 2004–14 (Fellow 1978-2004 – Univ’s first woman Fellow)

Nicola Lacey (1958–), Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College 2010-13; Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy, LSE (matriculated 1979)

Katharine Ellis (1963–), 1684 Professor of Music, University of Cambridge 2016– (matriculated 1982)

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Nick Robinson

Richard Ingrams (1937–), Editor of Private Eyeand The Oldie (matriculated 1958)

Paul Foot (1937–2004), journalist and political campaigner (matriculated 1958)

Michael York (1942–), actor, whose films include Cabaret and Logan’s Run (matriculated 1961)

Sir Max Hastings (1945–), editor of the Daily Telegraph and the Evening Standard (matriculated 1964)

“No one loves a country as much as someone who has chosen to live in it.” – Paul Gambaccini

Charles Sturridge (1951–), director of 1981 TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited] (matriculated 1969)

Christina Lamb

Paul Gambaccini (1949–), broadcaster and author (matriculated 1970)

Armando Iannucci (1963–), creator of Alan Partridge and The Thick of It (matriculated 1982)

Nick Robinson (1963–), Political Editor of the BBC 2005–15; Presenter on the Today programme 2015– (matriculated 1983)

Christina Lamb (1966–), Foreign Correspondent for the Sunday Times, author, and winner of several awards for her journalism (matriculated 1983)

Emma Tucker (1966-), Editor of the Wall Street Journal, 2023- and  formerly Editor of the Sunday Times, 2020-23. (matriculated 1986)

Tom Hooper (1972–), director of The King’s Speech and winner of the Oscar for Best Director, 2011 (matriculated 1991)

Andy Zaltzman (1974-), Presenter of The News Quiz and cricket statistician (matriculated 1993

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Sir Alan Moses

William Scott, Baron Stowell (1745–1836), judge and politician (Fellow 1765-82)

John Scott, first Earl of Eldon (1751–1838), Lord Chancellor 1801–6 and 1807–28 (matriculated 1766; Fellow 1767-73)

Gordon Hewart (1870–1943), Lord Chief Justice of England 1922–40 (matriculated 1887)

“You must never assume you are going to get away by concealing the really difficult point; you must be prepared to face it and sometimes it’s best to face it by coming out with it straight away.” – Jonathan Mance

Kenneth Diplock (1907–85) judge (matriculated 1925)

Sir David Edward (1934–), Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, 1992–2004 (matriculated 1953)

Johan Steyn, Lord Steyn (1932–), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 1995–2005 (matriculated 1955)

Leonard Hoffmann, Lord Hoffmann (1934–), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1995–2009 (Fellow 1961-73)

Jonathan Mance, Lord Mance (1943–), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 2005–9, and Justice of the Supreme Court of the UK (matriculated 1961)

Sir Alan Moses (1945–), a Lord Justice of Appeal, 2005–14; Chairman, Independent Press Standards Organisation, 2014– (matriculated 1964)

Geoffrey Robertson (1946–), barrister, author and human rights campaigner. (matriculated 1970)

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Festus Mogae

Charles Jenkinson, first Earl of Liverpool (1729–1808), politician (matriculated 1746)

William Windham (1750–1810), politician (matriculated 1767)

Lord Robert Cecil (1864–1958), Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1937 (matriculated 1882)

Clement Attlee (1883–1967), Prime Minister of Great Britain 1945–51 (matriculated 1901)

Sir Edgar Whitehead (1905–71), Prime Minister of Rhodesia 1958–62 (matriculated 1923)

Kofi Busia (1913–78), Prime Minister of Ghana 1966–72 (matriculated 1939)

“Character is a journey, not a destination.” – Bill Clinton

Harold Wilson (1916–95), Prime Minister of Great Britain 1964–70 and 1974–6 (Fellow 1938-45)

Bob Hawke (1929–2019), Prime Minister of Australia, 1983–91 (matriculated 1953)

Festus Mogae (1939–), President of Botswana 1998–2008 (matriculated 1965)

Sir Jeremy Beecham (1944–), Leader of Newcastle upon Tyne City Council 1977–94, Chairman of Labour’s NEC 2005/6 (matriculated 1962)

Bill Clinton (1946–), President of the USA 1993–2001 (matriculated 1968)

Philip Hammond (1955–), UK Transport Secretary 2010–11; Defence Secretary 2011–14; Foreign Secretary 2014–16; Chancellor of the Exchequer 2016–19 (matriculated 1974)

Jonathan Powell (1956–), Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister, 1997–2007 (matriculated 1974)

Julia Drown (1962–), Univ’s first woman MP (matriculated 1981)

Stewart Wood, Lord Wood of Anfield (1968–), Special Adviser to the Prime Minister, 2007–10; Adviser to the Leader of the Opposition, 2010–15 (matriculated 1986)

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Robin Butler

John Maud, Lord Redcliffe-Maud (1906–82), civil servant and redrawer of British county boundaries (Fellow 1929-39; Master 1963-76)

Bernard Rogers (1921–2008), General, US Army; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, 1979–87 (matriculated 1947)

Robin Butler, Lord Butler of Brockwell (1938–), Cabinet Secretary 1988–98 (matriculated 1957; Master 1998-2008)

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George Abbot

Edmund Lacy (c.1370–1455), Bishop of Exeter (Fellow c. 1391-7; Master c. 1398-1401)

Blessed Richard Fetherston (d. 1540), Roman Catholic ecclesiastic and martyr (Fellow c. 1513-15)

William James (1542–1617), Bishop of Durham (Master 1572-84)

George Abbot, (1562–1633), Archbishop of Canterbury 1611–33 and one of the translators of the King James Bible (Master 1597-1610)

Obadiah Walker (1616–99), college head and author, and Catholic convert (matriculated 1633; Fellow 1635-48 & 1660-76; Master 1676-89)

“The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.” – Frederick Faber

Israel Tonge (1621–80), informer and Church of England clergyman (matriculated 1638; Fellow 1648-c. 1652)

John Potter (1673/4–1747), Archbishop of Canterbury 1737–47 (matriculated 1688)

Frederick Faber (1814–63), Church of England clergyman and Roman Catholic priest (elected Scholar at Univ 1834; Fellow 1837-44)

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815–81), Dean of Westminster 1864–81 (Fellow 1838-51)

Chauncy Maples (1852–95), Bishop of Likoma in Nyasaland (matriculated 1871)

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Patricia Greenhalgh

John Radcliffe, (1650–1714), physician and philanthropist (matriculated 1666)

Ernst Chain (1906-79), winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1945 (incorporated member of Univ 1943)

Rudolph Marcus (1923–), winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992 (Visiting Fellow 1975/6)

Sir David King (1939–), Chief Scientific Advisor to the Government, 2000–7, and Director, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, 2008–12 (Fellow 2008-12)

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018), Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge University, 1979–2009 (matriculated 1959)

Patricia Greenhalgh (1959–), Professor of Primary Health Care Sciences, University of Oxford, 2015– (matriculated 1980)

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William Beveridge

William Beveridge, Lord Beveridge (1879–1963), social reformer and economist (Fellow 1902-9; Master 1937-45)

G D H Cole (1889–1959), university teacher and political theorist (Fellow 1925-44)

Hugh Seton-Watson (1916–84), historian and political scientist (Fellow 1946-51)

“Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.” – William Beveridge

Thomas Wilson (1916–2001), former Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy, University of Glasgow (Fellow 1946-58)

Mancur Olson (1932–98), former Professor of Economics, University of Maryland (matriculated1954)

Sir Laurence Hunter (1934–), former Professor of Applied Economics, University of Glasgow (matriculated1956)

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Roz Savage

Christian Cole (1851/2-1885), first Black African graduate of Oxford (admitted member of Univ. 1877)

Prince Felix Yusupov (1887–1967), assassin of Grigori Rasputin (matriculated 1909)

Cyril Tolley (1895–1978), golfer (matriculated 1920)

Abdul Hafeez Kardar (1925-96), first captain of Pakistan’s cricket team (matriculated 1946)

Roz Savage (1967–), the first woman to row across all three oceans solo (matriculated 1986)

“If I ever stop challenging myself, then I am getting lazy and comfortable and I am no longer growing.” – Roz Savage

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Sir V S Naipaul

Lord Robert Cecil of Chelwood, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1937. (matriculated 1882)

Rudolph Marcus, winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992 “for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems”. (Visiting Fellow 1975/6)

“My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.” – V.S. Naipaul

Sir V S Naipaul, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 “for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories”. (matriculated 1950)

Ernst Chain (1906-79), winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1945, “for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases” (incorporated member of Univ 1943).

Citations from nobelprize.org

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Harold Wilson

John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester; appointed c.1461. (studied at Univ c. 1440-4)

Francis Rawdon, first Marquess of Hastings: appointed 1812. (matriculated 1771)

William, second Earl of Selborne: appointed 1909. (matriculated 1878)

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” – Harold Wilson

James, fourth Marquess of Salisbury: appointed 1917. (matriculated 1880)

HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: appointed 1947 (Honorary Fellow 1953)

Clement Attlee: appointed 1956. (matriculated 1901)

Harold Wilson: appointed 1976. (Fellow 1938-45)

Robin Butler, Lord Butler of Brockwell: appointed 2003. (matriculated 1957; Master 1998-2008)

Valerie, Baroness Amos: appointed 2022 (Master since 2020)

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Acer Nethercott

Colin Moynihan: silver medal (UK; coxed eights), Moscow 1980. (matriculated 1974)

Mark Evans and his twin brother Michael: gold medals (Canada; coxed eights), Los Angeles 1984. (both matriculated 1982)

Mark Precious: bronze medal (UK; hockey), Los Angeles 1984. (matriculated 1974)

“The first thing my gran said to me when I got in to Oxford was: ‘so am I going to see you in the Boat Race?'” – Acer Nethercott

Emily de Riel: silver medal (USA; modern pentathlon), Sydney 2000. (matriculated 1996)

Acer Nethercott: silver medal (UK; coxed eights), Beijing 2008.(matriculated 1996)

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Clement Attlee

Francis Herbert Bradley, appointed 1924. (matriculated 1865)

Clement Attlee, appointed 1951. (matriculated 1901)

Martin West, appointed 2014. (Fellow 1963-74)

I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself. – Clement Attlee

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