List of fictional University of Oxford people

This is a list of fictional people associated with the University of Oxford. Some characters attended fictional colleges; others attended genuine colleges at the university.

List[]

• Sir Humphrey Appleby GCB (Baillie, perhaps Balliol College) Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister
• Stephen Barley The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• Lyra Belacqua (Jordan) His Dark Materials
• Edmund Bertram Mansfield Park
• Anthony Blanche Brideshead Revisited
• James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies
• Lord Brideshead Brideshead Revisited
• Tom Brown (St Ambrose's, probably based on Oriel) Tom Brown at Oxford
• Prince Bumpo Doctor Dolittle
• Chaucer's clerk of Oxenford Canterbury Tales
• Chacko The God of Small Things
• Frasier Crane Frasier
• Thomas Crown The Thomas Crown Affair
• Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
• Kivrin Engle Doomsday Book
• Gervase Fen (St Christopher's) by Edmund Crispin
• Edward Ferrars Sense and Sensibility
• Lord Sebastian Flyte (Christ Church) Brideshead Revisited
• Jay Gatsby The Great Gatsby
• Dick Diver (Rhodes Scholar) Tender is the Night
• Rupert Giles Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Verdant Green (Brazenface) The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
• Mr. Hale North and South (1854 novel)
• Captain Hook (Balliol) Peter Pan
• Basil Hallward The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Master Keaton and his wife (Somerville College)
• John Kemp Jill
• Vanessa Kensington Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
• Chatter Lal Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Helen Magnus Sanctuary (TV series)
• Mary, Marie, Margaret and Myfanwy (the fictional St Bride's College (Somerville)) by Philip Larkin
• Ranald McKechnie (the fictional Surrey College) A Staircase in Surrey
• Jenny Mellor (Merton College) An Education
• Colonel Sebastian Moran The Adventure of the Empty House
• Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse (St John's) Colin Dexter's Morse novels and TV adaptation
• Fox Mulder The X-Files
• Duncan Patullo (the fictional Surrey College) A Staircase in Surrey
• Paul The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• Paul Pennyfeather (the fictional Scone College) Decline and Fall
• Mary Russell by Laurie R. King
• Charles Ryder Brideshead Revisited
• (New College), Mamma Mia!
• George Smiley (Lincoln) by John le Carré
• Gwen Stacy (Somerville College) in The Amazing Spider-Man 2
• Prince Nasir al-Subaai and Prince Meshal al-Subaai Syriana
• Connie Tate The West Wing TV series
• Sir Leigh Teabing The Da Vinci Code
• Paul Temple, (detective) by Francis Durbridge
• Nigel Thornberry The Wild Thornberrys
• Henry Tilney Northanger Abbey
• Professor Timberlake (J. R. R. Tolkien) (the fictional Surrey College) A Staircase in Surrey
• Harriet Vane (the fictional Shrewsbury College (Somerville)) by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Lord Peter Wimsey (Balliol) by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Viscount St George Wimsey (Christ Church) by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Bertie Wooster (Magdalen) P. G. Wodehouse
• Lord Henry Wotton The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Charles Xavier (Pembroke) X-Men

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