List of University of Oxford people in academic disciplines

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This is a list of people from the University of Oxford in academic disciplines. Many were students at one (or more) of the colleges of the university, and others held fellowships at a college.

This list forms part of a series of lists of people associated with the University of Oxford; for other lists, please see the main article List of University of Oxford people.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by with reliable sources.

Law[]

  • Kenneth Beaumont Chairman International Civil Aviation Organisation 1946–57 (President Legal Committee 1954–57)
  • Allan Leal (Rhodes Scholarship) former Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School

Theology and the study of religions[]

  • Marilyn McCord Adams (Christ Church)
  • Henry Airay (St Edmund Hall and The Queen's)
  • James Alison (Blackfriars) priest, Order of Preachers 1981-95
  • Karen Armstrong (St Anne's)
  • John Barton (Oriel) Oriel and Laing Professor, Canon Theologian Winchester Cathl, member of Gen Synod
  • Gareth Bennett (New College)
  • John Bowker (Worcester) Prof of RS Lancaster 1974-84, Trinity Coll Cambridge 1984-93, Gresham Prof of Divinity 1992-97
  • George Granville Bradley (University) Hdmaster of Marlborough Coll 1858-70, Dean of Westminster 1881-1902
  • Reginald John Campbell (Christ Church) sometime minister of the City Temple
  • Edward Cardwell (Brasenose)
  • John Chapman (Christ Church) Abbot of Downside 1929-33
  • William Robinson Clark (Hertford)
  • William Cole (Corpus Christi)
  • Kenneth Cracknell
  • Herbert Danby (Keble and Christ Church)
  • Douglas Davies
  • Christopher Dawson (Trinity)
  • John Day (Lady Margaret Hall)
  • Gregory Dix (Merton and Keble)
  • C. H. Dodd
  • David L. Edwards (Magdalen and All Souls) Dean of Norwich 1978-83, Provost of Southwark 1983-94
  • Robert Ellis (Regent's Park)
  • Mark Elvins (Greyfriars)
  • Austin Farrer (Balliol, St Edmund Hall, Trinity, and Keble)
  • John Fell (Christ Church)
  • Paul S. Fiddes (St Peter's and Regent's Park)
  • Richard Fiddes
  • Richard Finn (Corpus Christi)
  • John Foxe (Brasenose and Magdalen)
  • Richard Hurrell Froude (Oriel)
  • Timothy Gorringe (St Edmund Hall and St John's) St Luke's Professor of Theological Studies University of Exeter 1998-
  • Rose Graham (Somerville)
  • Renn Dickson Hampden (Oriel, St Mary Hall, and Christ Church) bishop of Hereford 1847-68
  • Daphne Hampson
  • Tom Harpur
  • James Hervey (Lincoln)
  • George Hickes (St John's, Lincoln, Magdalen College, Magdalen Hall) dean of Worcester 1683-88, bp of Thetford 1694
  • Carole Hillenbrand (Somerville)
  • Leonard Hodgson (Hertford, St Edmund Hall, Magdalen, Christ Church) Regius Professor of Divinity 1944-1958
  • Humphrey Hody (Wadham)
  • Henry Scott Holland (Christ Church)
  • S. H. Hooke (Jesus)
  • Richard Hooker (Corpus Christi)
  • Lawrence Humphrey (Magdalen)
  • William Ince (Lincoln, Exeter, Christ Church)
  • E. O. James (Exeter)
  • David Jasper (St Stephen's House)
  • Jerome of Prague
  • Jeffrey John (Hertford, St Stephen's, Brasenose, Magdalen) Dean of St Albans 2003-
  • John Keble (Corpus Christi, Oriel)
  • Fergus Kerr (Blackfriars)
  • Andrew Linzey (Blackfriars)
  • John Lowe (Christ Church)
  • Diarmaid MacCulloch (St Cross)
  • John Macquarrie (Christ Church)
  • Herbert McCabe (Blackfriars)
  • Alister McGrath (Merton, Wycliffe Hall, and Harris Manchester)
  • Adam Marsh (Greyfriars)
  • Geoffrey of Monmouth
  • Max Müller (Christ Church and All Souls)
  • Oliver O'Donovan (Christ Church and Wycliffe Hall)
  • J. I. Packer (Corpus Christi and Wycliffe Hall)
  • Peter Payne (St Edmund Hall)
  • Robert Payne Smith (Christ Church) Dean of Canterbury 1871-95
  • Arthur Peacocke (Exeter, St Peter's and Christ Church)
  • Edward Pusey (Christ Church)
  • Timothy Radcliffe (Blackfriars)
  • William Salesbury
  • Jane Shaw (Regent's Park and New College)
  • Richard Smyth (Merton, Christ Church, and St Alban Hall)
  • Janet Soskice (Somerville)
  • Vincent Strudwick (Kellogg)
  • Iain Torrance (Oriel) Moderator Gen Assembly Church of Scotland 2003-4, Pres Princeton Theological Seminary 2004-
  • John Trevisa (The Queen's)
  • William Tyndale (Hertford)
  • Richard Ullerston (The Queen's)
  • Peter Martyr Vermigli (Regius Professor of Divinity)
  • Henry Wace (Brasenose)
  • William Wall (The Queen's)
  • Henry Wansbrough (St Benet's) Pontifical Biblical Commission 1996-, Prior of Norwich 2004-
  • Keith Ward (Linacre and Christ Church)
  • William George Ward (Christ Church and Lincoln)
  • H. Wheeler Robinson (Mansfield and Regent's Park)
  • Vernon White (Oriel and Wycliffe Hall)
  • Maurice Wiles (Christ Church)
  • William of Alnwick
  • William of Ware
  • John Williams (Jesus) [1]
  • John Wyclif (Balliol)
  • Robert Charles Zaehner (Christ Church)

Historians[]

  • Harold Acton (Christ Church)
  • Anne Applebaum (St Antony's)
  • Timothy Garton Ash (Exeter and St Antony's)
  • Richard J. C. Atkinson (Magdalen)
  • Geoffrey Barraclough (All Souls)
  • Max Beloff, Baron Beloff (Corpus Christi, Nuffield, All Souls, and St Antony's)
  • Mary Bennett (Somerville and St Hilda's)
  • Robert Blake, Baron Blake (Christ Church)
  • Brian Bond (Worcester)
  • Daniel J. Boorstin (Balliol)
  • Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (Nuffield and Worcester)
  • Archie Brown (St Antony's)
  • Alan Bullock, Lord Bullock of Leafield (New College and St Catherine's)
  • Colin Bundy (Merton, St Antony's, Kellogg, and Green)
  • Montagu Burrows (All Souls)
  • Muriel St. Clare Byrne (Somerville)
  • Richard Carew (Christ Church)
  • Humphrey Carpenter (Keble)
  • Sir Raymond Carr (Christ Church, New College, All Souls and St Antony's)
  • Allan Chapman (Wadham)
  • George Clark (Balliol, All Souls, and Oriel)
  • Alwyn Collinson
  • Robert Conquest (Magdalen)
  • Gordon A. Craig (Balliol)
  • Mandell Creighton (Merton)
  • Vincent Cronin (Trinity)
  • Robert Darnton
  • Catherine Glyn Davies (Somerville)
  • Sir Rees Davies (All Souls)
  • H. W. C. Davis (Balliol, All Souls, New Coll, Oriel) Ed DNB 1919-28, Prof History Manchester 1921-25, Oxford 1925-28
  • R. H. C. Davis (Balliol and Merton) Prof of Medieval History Birmingham University 1970-84
  • William Deakin (Christ Church)
  • Christopher de Hamel Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, his book Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts won the Duff Cooper Prize for 2016 and the Wolfson History Prize for 2017
  • Michael Duffy
  • John Elliott (Oriel)
  • Robert Ensor (Balliol and Corpus Christi)
  • Richard J. Evans (Jesus and St Antony's) Regius Professor of Modern History and Chairman of the Faculty of History in the University of Cambridge
  • Robert Evans (Oriel)
  • Cyril Falls (All Souls)
  • Keith Feiling (Balliol, Christ Church, and All Souls)
  • Niall Ferguson (Magdalen)
  • Charles Harding Firth (Balliol, Pembroke, and All Souls)
  • Herbert Fisher (New College) Member of Parliament 1916-26
  • Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Somerville)
  • Eric Foner (Oriel)
  • Amanda Foreman (Lady Margaret Hall)
  • Lady Antonia Fraser (Lady Margaret Hall)
  • Sir Lawrence Freedman (Nuffield)
  • Edward Augustus Freeman (Trinity)
  • James Anthony Froude (Oriel and Exeter)
  • Thomas Gaisford (Christ Church)
  • Henry de Beltgens Gibbins (Wadham)
  • N. H. Gibbs (Magdalen, Merton, and All Souls)
  • Robert Gildea
  • Lawrence Goldman (St Peter's) Editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004-
  • Rose Graham (Somerville)
  • Bernard Green (St Benet's)
  • Alice Greenwood (Somerville)
  • John Habakkuk (All Souls and Jesus) [2]
  • Irfan Habib (New College)
  • Keith Hancock (Balliol and All Souls)
  • Clarence H. Haring (New)
  • John Hattendorf (Pembroke and St Antony’s)
  • Agnes Headlam-Morley (Somerville)
  • Peter Heather (New College and Worcester)
  • Peter Heylin (St John's)
  • Christopher Hibbert (Oriel)
  • Christopher Hill (Balliol)
  • Carole Hillenbrand (Somerville)
  • George Holmes (All Souls)
  • Albert Hourani (Magdalen and St Antony's)
  • Michael Howard (Christ Church, Oriel, and All Souls)
  • Clay S. Jenkinson (University)
  • Henry Kamen
  • Roderick Kedward (St Antony's)
  • Elspeth Kennedy (Somerville and St Hilda's)
  • Paul Kennedy (St Antony's)
  • Walid Khalidi
  • Christoph M. Kimmich
  • Alan Kreider (Regent's Park)
  • John La Nauze
  • John Landers (Hertford and All Souls)
  • Paul Langford (Hertford and Lincoln)
  • Frances Lannon (Lady Margaret Hall)
  • Peter L'Estrange (Campion Hall)
  • Barbara Levick (St Hugh's and St Hilda's)
  • M. D. R. Leys (Somerville)
  • Suzannah Lipscomb (Lincoln and Balliol)
  • Colin Lucas (Lincoln)
  • Roderick MacFarquhar (Keble) Member of Parliament 1974-79
  • Piers Mackesy (Oriel, Christ Church, and Pembroke)
  • Margaret MacMillan (St. Antony's)
  • Julia de Lacy Mann (Somerville)
  • Margaret Mann Phillips (Somerville)
  • Robert K. Massie
  • John Masterman (Worcester and Christ Church)
  • Henry Mayr-Harting (Merton, St Peter's, and Christ Church)
  • Mark Mazower
  • Josef W. Meri (Wolfson)
  • Henry Hart Milman (Brasenose) Dean of St Paul's 1849-68
  • Leslie Mitchell (University)
  • Mary Caroline Moorman (Somerville)
  • W. L. Morton
  • Avner Offer (Nuffield and All Souls)
  • Charles Oman (New College and All Souls)
  • Robert O'Neill (All Souls)
  • Ilan Pappe (St Antony's)
  • H. R. S. Pocock (Pembroke)
  • Frederick York Powell (Christ Church and Oriel)
  • Maurice Powicke (Balliol)
  • Gerald Reitlinger (Christ Church)
  • Jane Robinson (Somerville)
  • N.A.M. Rodger (University)
  • Emma Georgina Rothschild (Somerville)
  • A. L. Rowse (Christ Church, Oriel, and All Souls)
  • Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell (Merton)
  • James R. Russell
  • Dominic Sandbrook (Balliol)
  • Frank Schulman
  • Paul Slack (Exeter and Linacre)
  • Frederick Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead (Christ Church)
  • Goldwin Smith (Magdalen and University)
  • R. W. Southern (All Souls)
  • Hew Strachan (All Souls)
  • William Stubbs (Christ Church, Trinity, and Oriel) bishop of Chester 1884-89, bishop of Oxford 1889-1901
  • Ernest Swinton (All Souls)
  • Oliver Taplin (Magdalen)
  • R. H. Tawney (Balliol) president of the Workers Educational Association 1928–44
  • A. J. P. Taylor (Oriel)
  • Keith Thomas (Balliol, All Souls, St John's, and Corpus Christi)
  • Martin Thomas
  • Elizabeth Topham Kennan
  • Arnold J. Toynbee (Balliol)
  • Rick Trainor (Merton)
  • Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (Christ Church)
  • Ann Trindade (Lady Margaret Hall)
  • Kenneth Turpin (Oriel)
  • J. M. Wallace-Hadrill (All Souls)
  • Veronica Wedgwood (Lady Margaret Hall)
  • Geoffrey Wheatcroft (New College)[3]
  • Christopher Wickham (All Souls)
  • Spenser Wilkinson (All Souls)
  • Kate Williams (Somerville)
  • A. N. Wilson (New College and St Stephen's House)
  • Mary Woodall (Somerville)
  • Lucy Worsley (New College)

Classicists, Byzantinists and archaeologists[]

  • J. L. Ackrill (St. John's)
  • Michael Angold
  • Polymnia Athanassiadi (Somerville)
  • Charles Badham (Wadham)
  • Richard Bentley (Wadham)
  • John Boardman (Lincoln)
  • William Borlase (Exeter)
  • Glen Bowersock (Balliol) Professor of Classics and History Harvard University 1969-80, Professor of Ancient History Institute for Advanced Study 1980-2006
  • Angus Bowie (Queen's)
  • Maurice Bowra (New College and Wadham)
  • Peter Brown (New College and All Soul's)
  • P. A. Brunt (Oriel and Brasenose)
  • William Camden (Magdalen, Christ Church, and the former Broadgates Hall)
  • Averil Cameron (Somerville)
  • Henry Chadwick (Christ Church)
  • Dorothy Charlesworth (Somerville)
  • Gillian Clark (Somerville)
  • Alison E. Cooley (St. John's)
  • Barbara Craig (Somerville)
  • G. E. M. de Ste Croix (New College)
  • A. M. Dale (Somerville)
  • James Davidson
  • Kenneth Dover (Balliol)
  • Robinson Ellis (Balliol and Trinity)
  • Elaine Fantham (Somerville)
  • Jill Harries (Somerville)
  • W. H. C. Frend (Keble)
  • Helen Hughes-Brock (Somerville)
  • Sarah C. Humphreys (Somerville)
  • Edward Gibbon (Magdalen) Member of Parliament 1774-83
  • Jasper Griffin (Balliol)
  • Miriam T. Griffin (Somerville)
  • Francis J. Haverfield
  • Philip Hardie (Corpus Christi)
  • Stephen Harrison (Balliol)
  • Simon Hornblower (Oriel) Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History University College London
  • Joan M. Hussey (St Hugh's)
  • Benjamin Jowett (Balliol)
  • Kathleen Kenyon (Somerville)
  • Donna Carol Kurtz (Somerville)
  • Francis Leddy (Exeter)
  • Irene Lemos (Somerville)
  • David Malcolm Lewis (Christ Church)
  • Henry Liddell (Christ Church)
  • Martin Litchfield West (St John's, University, and All Souls)
  • William Walter Merry (Balliol)
  • Fergus Millar (Brasenose)
  • Teresa Morgan (Oriel)
  • Gilbert Murray (Christ Church)
  • John Julius Norwich (John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich)
  • Dimitri Obolensky (formerly Prince Dmitriy Dmitrievich Obolensky) (Christ Church)
  • William Mitchell Ramsay (St John's, Exeter, and Lincoln)
  • Joyce Reynolds (Somerville)
  • P.J. Rhodes (Wadham)
  • Nicholas Richardson (Magdalen, Pembroke, Trinity, Merton, and Greyfriars)
  • Christina Riggs (Somerville)
  • Katherine Routledge (Somerville)
  • Erich Segal (Wolfson)
  • William Young Sellar (Balliol and Oriel)
  • R. R. R. Smith (Lincoln)
  • John Sparrow (New College and All Souls)
  • William Archibald Spooner (New College)
  • Simon Swain (Pembroke, Wolfson)
  • Ronald Syme (Oriel, Trinity, Brasenose, and Wolfson)
  • Margerie Venables Taylor (Somerville)
  • Emily Vermeule (St Agnes)
  • J.B. Ward-Perkins (New College)
  • Ute Wartenberg
  • Katharine Woolley (Somerville)
  • Maria Wyke (Somerville)

Modern languages[]

Philosophers[]

  • Theodor Adorno (Merton)
  • Virgil Aldrich
  • Archibald Alison (Balliol)
  • Nayef Al-Rodhan (St Antony's)
  • Pamela Sue Anderson (Mansfield and Regent's Park)
  • G. E. M. Anscombe (St Hugh's)
  • Robin Attfield (Christ Church and Regent's Park)
  • J. L. Austin (Balliol)
  • Anita Avramides (Somerville and St Hilda's)
  • Alfred Ayer (Christ Church)
  • Roger Bacon (Greyriars)
  • Gordon Baker (The Queen's, St John's)
  • Jeremy Bentham (The Queen's)
  • Isaiah Berlin (Corpus Christi and All Souls)
  • Roy Bhaskar (Balliol)
  • Brand Blanshard
  • Elisabeth Blochmann (Lady Margaret Hall)
  • Susanne Bobzien (Somerville, Balliol, The Queen's, and All Souls)
  • Thomas Browne (Pembroke)
  • John Campbell (Christ Church)
  • Quassim Cassam (Keble)
  • David Chalmers (Lincoln)
  • Gerald Cohen (All Souls)
  • R. G. Collingwood (Magdalen)
  • Alice Crary (Regent's Park)
  • Gregory Currie (St John's)
  • Brian Davies (Blackfriars)
  • Edward de Bono (Christ Church)
  • Daniel Dennett (Hertford)
  • John Theophilus Desaguliers (Christ Church and Hart Hall)
  • Michael Dummett (Christ Church and All Souls)
  • Dorothy Edgington (St Hilda's)
  • Gareth Evans (University)
  • Antony Flew (St John's)
  • Luciano Floridi (St Cross)
  • Philippa Foot (Somerville)
  • Peter Geach (Balliol)
  • Celia Green (Somerville)
  • Paul Grice (Corpus Christi)
  • Robert Grosseteste (Greyfriars) Bishop of Lincoln 1235-53
  • Þorsteinn Gylfason (Magdalen)
  • Susan Haack
  • Peter Hacker (The Queen's, St Antony's, Balliol, and St John's)
  • Stuart Hampshire (Balliol)
  • R. M. Hare (Balliol and Corpus Christi)
  • Thomas Hobbes (Hertford)
  • C. E. M. Joad (Balliol)
  • Anthony Kenny (St Benet's, Balliol, St John's)
  • Brian Klug (St Benet's)
  • Martha Kneale (Somerville)
  • Leszek Kołakowski (All Souls)
  • Stephen Law (Trinity and The Queen's)
  • David Lewis
  • Genevieve Lloyd (Somerville)
  • John Locke (Christ Church)
  • John Lucas (Balliol, Merton)
  • Henry Longueville Mansel (St John's and Magdalen) Dean of St Paul's 1868-71
  • Colin McGinn (Jesus)
  • Mary Midgely (Somerville)
  • Michele Moody-Adams (Somerville)
  • Max More (Max T. O'Connor) (St Anne's)
  • Thomas Nagel (Corpus Christi)
  • Kathleen Nott (Somerville)
  • Sari Nusseibeh (Christ Church) President of Al-Quds University
  • Hilda D. Oakeley (Somerville)
  • Michael Oakeshott (Nuffield)
  • William of Ockham (Merton)
  • Onora O'Neill (Somerville)
  • Derek Parfit (Balliol and All Souls)
  • Christopher Peacocke (Exeter, The Queen's, All Souls, New College, and Magdalen)
  • David Pearce (Brasenose)
  • Alexander Piatigorsky
  • Jonathan Rée
  • Daniel N. Robinson
  • W. D. Ross (Balliol and Oriel)
  • Alan Ryan (Balliol and New College)
  • Gilbert Ryle (Christ Church)
  • Julian Savulescu (St Cross)
  • John Duns Scotus
  • John Rogers Searle (Christ Church)
  • Peter Singer (University)
  • Aaron Sloman (Balliol and St Antony's)
  • Galen Strawson
  • Peter Strawson (St John's, University, and Magdalen)
  • Ralph Strode (Merton)
  • Charles Taylor (Balliol and All Souls)
  • Geoffrey Warnock (Hertford)
  • Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock (Lady Margaret Hall and St Hugh's)
  • Ronald Lampman Watts (Oriel) Principal of Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) 1974–84
  • Kathy Wilkes (St Hilda's)
  • Bernard Williams (Balliol and All Souls)
  • Kwasi Wiredu (University)

Economists[]

  • William Ashley (Balliol and Lincoln)
  • Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh (Balliol)
  • Marian Bell (Hertford)
  • David Bensusan-Butt (Nuffield)
  • William Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge (Balliol)
  • Shahid Javed Burki (Christ Church)
  • Frances Cairncross (St Anne's and Exeter)
  • Anusha Chari (Balliol)
  • G. D. H. Cole (Balliol and University)
  • Howard Davies (Merton) Director LSE, formerly Chmn FSA, Dep Gov Bank of England, DG CBI, Controller Audit Commn
  • Andrew Dilnot (St John's)
  • Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (Balliol)
  • Amelia Fletcher
  • Andrew Graham (Balliol)
  • Roy Harrod (Christ Church)
  • John Hicks (Balliol)
  • Ursula Kathleen Hicks (Somerville)
  • John A. Hobson (Lincoln)
  • Harry Hodson (Balliol and All Souls)
  • Caroline Hoxby (Magdalen)
  • Mary Kaldor (Somerville)
  • Lawrence Klein (Lincoln)
  • Paul Krugman
  • James Meade (Oriel)
  • John Williams Mellor
  • James Mirrlees (Nuffield)
  • Abul Maal Abdul Muhith
  • Gunnar Myrdal (Balliol)
  • Stephen Nickell (Nuffield) Professor Economics LSE 1998-2006, Member Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee 2000-06
  • Paul Ormerod (St Catherine's)
  • Utsa Patnaik (Somerville)
  • James Robertson (Balliol)
  • Walt Whitman Rostow (Balliol)
  • Ernst Schumacher
  • Amartya Sen (Nuffield and All Souls)
  • Faiza Shaheen (St John's)
  • Adam Smith (Balliol) known as The Father of Economics or The Father of Capitalism
  • Alasdair Smith
  • Robert Solow (Balliol)
  • Michael Spence (Magdalen)
  • Frances Stewart (Somerville)
  • Joseph E. Stiglitz (All Souls and St Catherine's)
  • Fabian Tassano (New College)
  • Lester Thurow (Balliol)
  • Barbara Ward (Somerville)
  • Richard Werner
  • Alison Wolf (Somerville)
  • Stefano Zamagni

Geography[]

  • Denis Cosgrove (St Catherine's)
  • Andrew Goudie (Hertford and St Cross)
  • Emily Georgiana Kemp (Somerville)
  • Janelle Knox-Hayes (Green Templeton)
  • Diana Liverman (Linacre)
  • Halford John Mackinder (Christ Church) Director LSE 1903–08, Member of Parliament 1910–22
  • Nick Middleton (St Anne's)
  • Ann Varley

Anthropology and ethnography[]

  • Madawi Al-Rasheed (Nuffield)
  • Edwin Ardener (St. John's)
  • Marius Barbeau (Oriel)
  • Brenda Beck (Somerville)
  • Beatrice Blackwood (Somerville)
  • Maria Czaplicka (Somerville)
  • John Davis (University and All Souls)
  • Alex de Waal (Nuffield)
  • E. E. Evans-Pritchard (Exeter and All Souls)
  • Ernest Gellner (Balliol)
  • Max Gluckman (Exeter)
  • Stuart Hall (Merton)
  • Earnest Hooton
  • E. O. James (Exeter)
  • Hugh Kawharu (Exeter)
  • Robert Ranulph Marett (Exeter)
  • James Cowles Prichard (St John's and Trinity)
  • Vernon Reynolds (Magdalen)
  • Katherine Routledge (Somerville)
  • Walter Baldwin Spencer (Exeter and Lincoln)
  • Colin Turnbull (Magdalen)
  • Mai Yamani (Somerville)

Sociology[]

  • Reem Bassiouney (Somerville)
  • John Goldthorpe (Nuffield)
  • M. N. Srinivas (All Souls)
  • Steven Lukes (Balliol, Nuffield, and Worcester)
  • Gordon Marshall (Nuffield) V-C University of Reading, formerly Chief Exec Economic & Social Research Council
  • Ted Nelson (Wadham)
  • Ann Oakley (Somerville)
  • Sheila Rowbotham (St Hilda's)
  • Bryan Wilson (All Souls)

Politics, political philosophy, and international relations[]

  • Nayef Al-Rodhan (St Antony's)
  • Alyson Bailes (Somerville)
  • Mark Bevir
  • Christopher Brewin (St John's and Christ Church)
  • James Burnham (Balliol)
  • Alex Callinicos (Balliol)
  • Jennifer Cassidy
  • Gerald Cohen (All Souls)
  • James Corry Principal of Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) 1961-68
  • Deborah Coyne (Wadham) international relations and law, contributed to Meech Lake Accords
  • David Dilks (Hertford, St Antony's, and All Souls) Vice Chancellor of the University of Hull 1991–99
  • Samuel Finer (Trinity and Balliol)
  • Rosemary Foot (St. Antony's)Professor of International Relations, and John Swire Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Univ
  • Bruce Gilley
  • Matt Golder Professor at Pennsylvania State University
  • Sir Lawrence Freedman
  • Nikolas Gvosdev (St Antony's)
  • Fred Halliday (The Queen's)
  • Ted Hodgetts Principal Victoria College Toronto 1967–69, President Victoria University 1970–72
  • Raghavan N. Iyer (Magdalen, Nuffield, and St Antony's)
  • Robert Lieber (St Antony's) Professor, Department of Government and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
  • Baisali Mohanty (Wolfson)
  • Moses Morgan President of Memorial University of Newfoundland 1973–81
  • Thomas Nossiter (Exeter and Nuffield) Professor of Government LSE 1989–94
  • Joseph Nye (Exeter)
  • Masako Owada (Balliol)
  • Rafał Pankowski (born 1976), Polish sociologist and political scientist
  • Robert D. Putnam (Balliol)
  • Michael Sandel (Balliol) Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University
  • Emma Sky (Somerville)
  • Anne-Marie Slaughter (Worcester) Dean Woodrow Wilson Sch of Public & International Affairs Princeton Univ
  • Jeremy Waldron (All Souls)
  • Helen Wallace, Baroness Wallace of Saltaire
  • Graham Wallas (Corpus Christi)
  • Shirley Williams (Somerville)
  • Naomi Wolf (New College)

Asian studies[]

  • Carmen Blacker (Somerville)
  • Ian Buruma (St Antony's)
  • David Hawkes (All Souls)
  • James Legge (Corpus Christi)
  • Jessica Rawson (Merton)
  • William Edward Soothill
  • Richard Carnac Temple
  • Richard Olaf Winstedt (New College)

Mathematicians and statisticians[]

  • John Macleod Ball
  • Simon Bredon (Balliol and Merton)
  • Lewis Carroll (Christ Church)
  • Mary Cartwright (St Hugh's)
  • Kathryn Chaloner (Somerville)
  • Anne Cobbe (Somerville)
  • Alison Etheridge
  • Leslie Fox (Christ Church and Balliol)
  • W.S. Gosset (New College)
  • Brian Greene
  • Edmund Gunter (Christ Church)
  • G.H. Hardy (Savilian Chair of Geometry)
  • Stephen Hawking (University)
  • Peter Hilton (The Queen's) Professor Univ of Birmingham, Cornell Univ, Case Western Reserve Univ, Binghamton Univ, and Univ of Central Florida
  • Nigel Hitchin (Jesus, Wolfson, and New College)
  • Ioan James (The Queen's and New College)
  • Frances Kirwan (Magdalen and Balliol)
  • Ruth Lawrence (St Hugh's)
  • John Lennox
  • Holbrook Mann MacNeille (Balliol)
  • Claus Moser, Baron Moser (Nuffield and Wadham)
  • Kathleen Ollerenshaw (Somerville)
  • Roger Penrose
  • Marcus du Sautoy (All Souls and Wadham)
  • Caroline Series (Somerville)
  • Bernard Silverman (University and St Peter's)
  • Henry John Stephen Smith (Balliol)
  • G. Spencer-Brown (Christ Church)
  • Martin J. Taylor (Pembroke) Professor Pure Mathematics UMIST 1986-2004, Manchester 2004-, Pres London Mathematical Soc 1998-2000, Vice-Pres Royal Soc 2004-
  • Richard Taylor (New College)
  • Mary Wynne Warner (Somerville)
  • J.H.C. Whitehead (Balliol and Magdalen)
  • Andrew Wiles (Merton)

Scientists[]

Naturalists, botanists, and zoologists[]

  • Joseph Banks (Christ Church)
  • Jonathan Borwein (Jesus) [4]
  • Sydney Brenner (Exeter)
  • Anne Brewis (Somerville)
  • Francis Trevelyan Buckland
  • William Buckland (Christ Church)
  • Neil Chalmers (Magdalen and Wadham)
  • Ian Chubb
  • Richard Dawkins (Balliol)
  • John Bretland Farmer (Magdalen)
  • E. B. Ford (Wadham)
  • Jeremy Greenwood (St Catherine's)
  • J. B. S. Haldane (New College)
  • W. D. Hamilton (New College)
  • Alister Hardy (Exeter, Merton, and Manchester)
  • Ian Hepburn
  • John Kidd (Christ Church)
  • Linda King
  • John Krebs (Pembroke and Jesus) [5][6]
  • Ray Lankester (Christ Church)
  • Amory Lovins (Magdalen and Merton)
  • Anne McLaren (Lady Margaret Hall)
  • Gavin Maxwell (Hertford)
  • Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (Merton)
  • Peter Medawar (Magdalen)
  • Desmond Morris (Magdalen)
  • Robert Plot (Magdalen Hall)
  • Edward Bagnall Poulton (Jesus)
  • David Quammen (Merton)
  • Matthew Ridley (Magdalen)
  • Charles Sherrington (Magdalen)
  • Richard Southwood (Merton)
  • Nikolaas Tinbergen (Merton)
  • Sunil Kumar Verma (Green)
  • Kathy Willis (Merton)

Medicine[]

  • Donald Acheson (Brasenose and University) Chief Medical Officer 1983–1991
  • Henry Wentworth Acland (Christ Church and All Souls)
  • Josephine Barnes (Lady Margaret Hall)
  • George Wells Beadle (Balliol)
  • Claude Bertrand
  • Baruch Samuel Blumberg (Balliol)
  • Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain
  • Robert Burton (Brasenose)
  • Sheila Cassidy (Somerville)
  • Ernst Chain (University)
  • Augusto Claudio Cuello Professor and Charles E. Frosst/Merck Chair in Pharmacology & Therapeutics, McGill University
  • Richard Doll (Christ Church)
  • John Carew Eccles (Magdalen)
  • J. R. Evans President, University of Toronto, 1972–78, Director Population, Health, & Nutrition, World Bank, 1979–83
  • William Feindel (Merton)
  • Howard Florey (Lincoln, The Queen's, and Magdalen)
  • John Freind (Christ Church)
  • Archibald Garrod (Christ Church)
  • Atul Gawande (Balliol)
  • Ragnar Granit
  • Roy Meadow (Worcester)
  • Richard Morton (Magdalen Hall)
  • David Naylor (Hertford) President, University of Toronto, 2005–
  • Paul Nurse (Linacre)
  • Severo Ochoa
  • William Osler (Christ Church)
  • Wilder Penfield
  • Thomas Phaer sometime Member of Parliament for Cardigan
  • Rodney Porter (Trinity)
  • John Radcliffe (University)
  • Oliver Sacks (The Queen's)
  • Cicely Saunders (St Anne's)
  • Charles Singer (Magdalen)
  • Oliver Smithies (Balliol)
  • Elsdon Storey
  • Thomas Stuttaford (Brasenose) The Times medical expert, Member of Parliament, 1970–74
  • Robert Twycross
  • John Robert Vane (St Catherine's)
  • Arthur Vidrine
  • Diana Walford (Mansfield)
  • Thomas Willis (Christ Church)
  • Srinivas Gada (Hon Senior Lecturer)

Psychologists, psychiatrists, and physiologists of the brain[]

  • Simon Baron-Cohen (New College)
  • Stephen J. Bergman (Samuel Shem) (Balliol)
  • G. E. Berrios (Corpus Christi)
  • Wilfred Bion (The Queen's)
  • Nick Bouras
  • Chris Brand (The Queen's and Nuffield)
  • Donald Broadbent (Wolfson)
  • Fiona Caldicott (St Hilda's and Somerville)
  • Gordon Claridge (Magdalen)
  • Hervey M. Cleckley
  • Adrian Furnham (Pembroke)
  • Jeffrey Alan Gray (Magdalen)
  • Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield (St Hilda's and Lincoln)
  • Miles Hewstone (New College)
  • Charles McCreery (New College and Magdalen)
  • Edward Thomas Monro (Oriel)
  • Henry Monro (Oriel)
  • James Monro (Balliol)
  • John Monro (St John's and University)
  • Thomas Monro (Oriel)
  • Shirley Pearce (St Anne's)
  • Adrian Raine
  • Edmund Rolls (Corpus Christi)
  • Stuart Sutherland (Magdalen)
  • Lawrence Weiskrantz (Magdalen)
  • Simon Wessely (University)

Chemists[]

  • Mary Archer, Baroness Archer of Weston-super-Mare (St Anne's)
  • Peter Atkins (Lincoln)
  • Anne Beloff-Chain
  • Robert Boyle (University)
  • Humphry Bowen (Magdalen)
  • E. J. Bowen (Balliol)
  • David Clary (St John's and Magdalen)
  • John Cornforth (St Catherine's)
  • Charles Daubeny (Magdalen)
  • Roger Gaudry Rector, Université de Montréal, 1965–75
  • Véronique Gouverneur
  • Nicole Grobert
  • Dalziel Hammick (Magdalen)
  • Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (Balliol)
  • Dorothy Hodgkin (Somerville)
  • Frederick L. Hovde
  • Abdus Suttar Khan (St. Catherine's)
  • Jeremy Knowles (Balliol and Wadham)
  • Jack Linnett (The Queen's)
  • Michael Mingos (Keble and St Edmund Hall)
  • Robert Mulliken (St John's)
  • Linus Pauling (Balliol)
  • Rex Richards (Lincoln, Exeter, and Merton)
  • Robert Robinson (Magdalen)
  • Francis Simon (Christ Church)
  • James Smithson (Pembroke)
  • Frederick Soddy (Merton)
  • Alexander Todd (Oriel)
  • John E. Walker (St Catherine's)
  • Michael Stanley Whittingham
  • Ahmed Zewail (St Catherine's)
  • Michael Barber (chemist) (The Queen's)

Physicists and astronomers[]

Astronomers Royal[]

  • Edmund Halley (The Queen's) 1720–42
  • James Bradley (Balliol) 1742–62
  • Nathaniel Bliss (Pembroke) 1762-64
  • Martin Ryle (Christ Church) 1972–82

Other physicists and astronomers[]

  • John D. Barrow
  • Roger Cashmore (Balliol, University, Christ Church, Merton, and Brasenose)
  • Albert Einstein (Christ Church)
  • Brian Greene
  • Stephen Hawking (University)
  • Robert Hooke (Christ Church)
  • Edwin Hubble (The Queen's)
  • Leonard Huxley
  • Willis Lamb
  • Anthony Leggett
  • Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (Christ Church)
  • John Maddox (Christ Church)
  • Brian G. Marsden (New College)
  • Roger Penrose
  • Stephen Quake (PhD 1994)
  • Norman Ramsey (Balliol)
  • Erwin Schrödinger (Magdalen)
  • Dennis Sciama
  • John Hasbrouck van Vleck (Balliol)
  • Klaus von Klitzing
  • John Clive Ward
  • Denys Wilkinson (Christ Church)
  • Richard Wilson (Christ Church)
  • Stephen Wolfram (St John's)

Computers, electronics, and robotics[]

Engineering and agriculture[]

Geology[]

Meteorology[]

References[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "Williams, John (Ab Ithel; 1811–1862), cleric and antiquary". DWB. Retrieved 2007-07-22.
  2. ^ Thomas, Sir Keith (2003). "Memorial Service for Sir Hrothgar John Habakkuk". Jesus College Record. Jesus College, Oxford: 31–39.
  3. ^ Howard, Anthony (7 December 1989). "Murder in the Cathedral". London Review of Books. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
  4. ^ "Borwein's CV at the Dalhousie University website". Archived from the original on 2009-07-17. Retrieved 2007-07-23.
  5. ^ Clarke, Peter (2004). "Editorial". Jesus College Record. Jesus College, Oxford: 4.
  6. ^ "Lord Krebs". Jesus College, Oxford. 16 May 2007. Archived from the original on 5 July 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-14.
  7. ^ Clarke, Peter (2002). "Fellows' News". Jesus College Record. Jesus College, Oxford: 18.
  8. ^ "Professor Roger Ainsworth". St Catherine's College, Oxford. Archived from the original on September 26, 2006. Retrieved 2007-07-15.
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