See also: List of science, technology and mathematics people associated with Balliol College, Oxford. The following is a list of notable people associated with Balliol College, Oxford, including alumni and Masters of the college. When available, year of matriculation is provided in parentheses, as listed in the relevant edition of The Balliol College Register or in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.Complete (or very nearly complete) lists of Fellows and students, arranged by year of matriculation, can be found in the published Balliol College Register; the 1st edition,[1] 2nd edition[2] and 3rd edition.[3]
This list of notable alumni consists almost entirely of men, because women were admitted to the college only from 1979.[4] To assist with verification, each name links to its Wikipedia page (except for those so ancient that no page exists). Each name only appears once in the lists, even though the person may have established themselves in more than one category.
| Image | Name | Date of admission | Field of work | Comments | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maxine Berg | 2009 | Industrial Revolution | FBA, Warwick University Professor | |||
| Arthur Marwick | 1957 | Historiographer | "The New Nature of History" 1971 | |||
| 1952 | Working Class | ” one of the most outstanding, original intellectuals of his generation “ | ||||
| 1946 | Urban history | Rhodes Scholar, Fellow | "one of Australia's leading public intellectuals" | |||
| R. M. Hartwell | 1948 | Industrial Revolution | "The Rising Standard of Living in England, 1800–1850" (1961) | |||
| Fin Crisp | 1939 | Political science | Rhodes Scholar, “The Parliamentary Government of the Commonwealth of Australia” 1949 | |||
| Peter Calvocoressi | 1931 | Post–Cold War era | World Politics Since 1945; World Politics 1945-2000 | |||
| Sir Denis Brogan | 1923 | History of the United States government | “The American Political System 1933 | |||
| Sir Keith Hancock | 1931 | British Empire | Chichele Professor of Economic History, “The British War Economy” 1949 | |||
| Sir Lewis Namier | 1908 | The History of Parliament | “History of Parliament” | |||
| R. H. Tawney | 1899 | Christian socialism | "Tawney exercised the widest influence of any historian of his time, politically, socially and, above all, educationally" |
| Image | Name | Date of admission | Field of work | Comments | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Timothy D. Snyder | 1995 | Central Europe | Marshall Scholar, FBA, Fellow, Yale Professor | |||
| Frank McDonough | 1981 | Second World War | ||||
| 1975 | History of the European Union | |||||
| 1971 | History of France | |||||
| Jeremy Lawrance | 1971 | History of Spain | FBA | [6] | ||
| Geoff Eley | 1967 | History of Germany | ||||
| James H. Billington | 1950 | History of Russia | Rhodes Scholar, 13th Librarian of Congress |
| Image | Name | Date of admission | Field of work | Comments | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ronald Robinson | 1971 | British Empire | FBA, Fellow | |||
| C. A. Bayly | 1963 | British Empire | ||||
| 1953 | History of India | |||||
| 1938 | History of Australia | "Australia's most famous historian" | ||||
| Daniel J. Boorstin | 1934 | History of America | 12th Librarian of Congress | |||
| John La Nauze | 1932 | History of Australia | Rhodes Scholar | |||
| Max Crawford | 1927 | History of Australia | ||||
| Donald Creighton | 1925 | History of Australia |
| Image | Name | Date of admission | Field of work | Comments | References | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suzannah Lipscomb | 2009 | The Tudors | "Not Just the Tudors" | ||||
| Keith Thomas | 1952 | History of Religion | "Religion and the Decline of Magic" | ||||
| 1943 | 17th Century | ||||||
| Christopher Hill | 1931 | English Civil War | Master of Balliol, Marxist | ||||
| Vivian Hunter Galbraith | 1910 | Domesday Book | |||||
| Charles Harding Firth | 1876 | English Civil War |
| Image | Name | Date of admission | Field of work | Comments | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick Wormald | 1966 | Anglo-Saxons | "The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century" | [7] | |
| Jeremy Catto | 1958 | History of Education | "The History of the University of Oxford" | [8] | |
| Maurice Keen | 1954 | Chivalry | |||
| Rodney Hilton | 1935 | Feudalism | Marxist | ||
| R. H. C. Davis | 1937 | Medieval Europe | |||
| Richard Southern | 1929 | Middle Ages | "The Making of the Middle Ages" | ||
| F. M. Powicke | 1899 | 13th Century | |||
| Robert Howard Hodgkin | 1895 | Anglo-Saxons | |||
| H. W. C. Davis | 1891 | Medieval Europe | father of RHC Davis | ||
| Image | Name | Date of admission | Field of work | Comments | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Timothy Barnes | 1960 | History of Christianity | FBA, Professor Toronto University | |||
| Glen Bowersock | 1957 | Ancient history | Rhodes Scholar, Honorary Fellow | |||
| 1956 | Classics | FBA, Fellow, Public Orator | ||||
| Martin Litchfield West | 1955 | Ancient Greek | OM, FBA,"a man of few words in seven languages" | |||
| 1947 | Classical Latin | FBA, Snell Exhibitioner, Corpus Christi Professor of Latin | ||||
| Russell Meiggs | 1939 | Ancient history | " Trees and timber in the ancient Mediterranean world " 1982 | |||
| Sir Kenneth Dover | 1938 | Ancient Greek | Fellow, President British Academy,“Greek Homosexuality” 1978 | |||
| William Watt | 1933 | Classics | FBA | |||
| Richard William Hunt | 1927 | Paleography | Keeper of the Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library | |||
| Roger Mynors | 1922 | Classical Latin | Corpus Christi Professor of Latin | |||
| 1919 | Philology | Virgil, Professor, Liverpool University | ||||
| Edgar Lobel | 1907 | Classical Philology | Declined knighthood, Oxyrhynchus Papyri | |||
| 1904 | Greek mythology | Rhodes Scholar, FBA, "A Handbook of Greek Mythology", chess player | [10] | |||
| William Hardie | 1880 | Classics | Fellow, Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University | |||
| Robert Scott | 1854 | Philology | Master, "A Greek-English Lexicon" | [11] | ||
| David Binning Monro | 1854 | Homer | FBA Vice-Chancellor | |||
| 1852 | Classical Latin | Catullus, Corpus Professor of Latin | ||||
| William Young Sellar | 1842 | Latin poetry | FRSE, Professor of humanity at Edinburgh University |
See main article: article and List of masters of Balliol College, Oxford.
Balliol is run by the Master and Fellows of the college. The Master of the college must be "the person who is, in [the Fellows'] judgement, most fit for the government of the College as a place of religion, learning, and education".[20] The current Master of Balliol is Helen Ghosh.[21]