This page serves as a central navigational point for lists of more than 2,350 members of the University of Oxford, divided into relevant groupings for ease of use. The vast majority were students at the university, although they did not necessarily take a degree; others have held fellowships at one of the university's colleges; many fall into both categories. This page does not include people whose only connection with the university consists in the award of an honorary degree or an honorary fellowship.
The list has been divided into categories indicating the field of activity in which people have become well known. Many of the university's alumni/ae, or old members, as they are more traditionally known, have attained a level of distinction in more than one field. These appear only in the category with which it is felt they are most often associated, or in which they have been more recently involved. Hence Jeffrey Archer (Brasenose), a novelist, is listed as a life peer; Imran Khan (Keble), a former captain of the Pakistani cricket team, is listed as a Pakistani politician. Some academic disciplines are more difficult to define than others. In particular, many theologians, lawyers, and sociologists work in areas that might be thought to be encompassed by philosophy.
Oxonians (a term for members, students or alumni of the university derived from its Latin name, Academia Oxoniensis) have included two British kings and at least twelve monarchs of ten other sovereign states, twenty-eight British prime ministers, and thirty-five presidents and prime ministers of nineteen other countries. there are seven Oxonians in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom and two in the Shadow Cabinet. The university lays claim to twelve saints, ten blesseds, an antipope, eighteen cardinals, and eighty-nine archbishops (including thirty-two of Canterbury and twenty-two of York). The university claims forty-seven Nobel Laureates and three Fields Medallists. The university's oldest student was Gertrud Seidmann, who was awarded a Certificate of Graduate Attainment aged 91.[1]
This list also includes twenty-five princes and princesses (among them the heirs apparent of Belgium, Brunei, and Japan), thirty-four dukes, nineteen marquesses, eighty-two earls and countesses, forty-six viscounts and viscountesses, and 188 barons and baronesses; 246 bishops (Anglican and Catholic); 291 Members of Parliament (excluding MPs who were subsequently peers), eleven Members of the European Parliament (excluding MEPs also serving at Westminster), twelve Lord Chancellors, nine Lord Chief Justices and twenty-two law lords; ten US Senators, ten US Representatives (including a Speaker of the House), three state governors, and four associate justices of the US Supreme Court; as well as six puisne justices of the Supreme Court of Canada and a chief justice of the now defunct Federal Court of Canada.
See main article: List of University of Oxford people in British public life.
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See main article: List of University of Oxford people in British public life.
See main article: List of University of Oxford people in public life overseas.
See main article: List of University of Oxford people in British public life.
See main article: List of University of Oxford people in public life overseas.
See main article: List of University of Oxford people in British public life.
See main article: List of University of Oxford people in British public life.
See main article: List of University of Oxford people in British public life.
See main article: List of University of Oxford people in British public life.
See main article: List of University of Oxford people in British public life.
See main article: List of University of Oxford people in British public life.
See main article: List of University of Oxford people in British public life.
See main article: List of University of Oxford people in British public life.
See main article: List of University of Oxford people in British public life.
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See main article: List of University of Oxford people in British public life.
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See main article: List of University of Oxford people in the Law.
See main article: List of University of Oxford people in the Law.
See main article: List of University of Oxford people in the Law.
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Saints
Blessed
Pope
Cardinals
Archbishops of Canterbury
Archbishops of York
Other Archbishops, Presiding Bishops, and Metropolitans
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Other Bishops
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Clergy and other ministers
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Theologians
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See main article: List of University of Oxford people in religion.
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Poets Laureate
Many journalists work in both print and broadcast media. The following are listed under the medium for which they are best known. Those who are known solely as sports commentators will be found at List of University of Oxford people in sport, exploration, and adventuring.
ComposersConductorsOrganistsPianistsSingersMusicologistsAdministration
Didgeridoo
Jazz
Country
Folk
Rock and pop
See main article: List of University of Oxford people in academic disciplines.
See also: List of University of Oxford alumni by academic discipline and List of University of Oxford academics by academic discipline. This includes:
See main article: List of University of Oxford people in education.
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See main article: List of fictional University of Oxford people.