University College, Oxford is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. Its alumni include politicians, lawyers, bishops, poets, and academics. The overwhelming maleness of this list is partially explained by the fact that, from its foundation in 1249 until 1979, women were barred from studying at the college.
Alumni
The sub-headings are given as a general guide and some names might fit under more than one category.
Abbreviations used in the following tables:
- M â Year of matriculation at University College (a dash indicates that the individual did not matriculate at the college)
- G â Year of graduation / conclusion of study at University College (a dash indicates that the individual graduated from another college)
- DNG â Did not graduate: left the college without taking a degree
- ? â Year unknown; an approximate year is used for table-sorting purposes.
- (F) after name â later became a Fellow of University College, and included on the
- (HF) after name â later became an Honorary Fellow of University College
Degree abbreviations
*BCL â Bachelor of Civil Law
*BD â Bachelor of Divinity
*BLitt â Bachelor of Letters
*BMus â Bachelor of Music
*BSc â Bachelor of Science
*BTh â Bachelor of Theology
*MA â Master of Arts
*MB â Bachelor of Medicine
*MD â Doctor of Medicine
*MLitt â Master of Letters
*MSc â Master of Science
*MPhil â Master of Philosophy
*DCL â Doctor of Civil Law
*DD â Doctor of Divinity
*DLitt â Doctor of Letters
*DMus â Doctor of Music
*DPhil â Doctor of Philosophy
*DTh â Doctor of Theology
The subject studied and the degree classification are included, where known. Until the early 19th century, undergraduates read for a Bachelor of Arts degree that included study of Latin and Greek texts, mathematics, geometry, philosophy and theology. Individual subjects at undergraduate level were only introduced later: for example, Mathematics (1805), Natural Science (1850), Jurisprudence (1851, although it had been available before this to students who obtained special permission), Modern History (1851) and Theology (1871). Geography and Modern Languages were introduced in the 20th century. Music had been available as a specialist subject before these changes; medicine was studied as a post-graduate subject.
Politicians and civil servants
- Lord Butler of Brockwell, civil servant, college master
- Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool, longest-serving President of the Board of Trade, namesake of the Hawkesbury River
- Sir Angus Mackintosh, British diplomat
- Sir Roger Newdigate, MP for Middlesex and for Oxford University, establisher of the Newdigate Prize
- Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor, MP for Salisbury
- William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell, Camden Reader of Ancient History, judge of the Admiralty Court, MP for Oxford University
- Sir Banastre Tarleton, British military leader during the American Revolutionary War and later Whig MP for Liverpool
- William Windham, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
Clergy
- George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (1611âÂÂ33)
- Charles Boyd, Archdeacon of Colombo (1891-1901)
- Christopher Chessun, Bishop of Southwark (2011âÂÂpresent), Bishop of Woolwich (2005-2011)
- Anthony Fisher, Catholic Archbishop of Sydney 2014âÂÂpresent, Bishop of Parramatta (2010âÂÂ2014)
- Richard Fleming, bishop of Lincoln (1420âÂÂ31)
- George Horne, bishop of Norwich (1790âÂÂ92)
- Tom Longworth, bishop of Pontefract 1939âÂÂ49, bishop of Hereford (1949âÂÂ61)
- Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (1606âÂÂ28)
- Malcolm Menin, bishop of Knaresborough (1986âÂÂ97)
- Peter Mumford, bishop of Hertford (1974âÂÂ81), bishop of Truro (1981âÂÂ89)
- Richard Godfrey Parsons, bishop of Middleton (1927âÂÂ32), bishop of Southwark (1932âÂÂ41), bishop of Hereford (1942âÂÂ48)
- Herbert Sidney Pelham, bishop of Barrow-in-Furness (1926âÂÂ1944)
- John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (1737âÂÂ47)
- Grandage Edwards Powell, bishop of Penrith (1939-44)
- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster (1863âÂÂ81), Rector of St Andrews (1874-77)
Architects
Artists and writers
- Edwin Arnold, poet, journalist, translator from Hindi
- Peter Bayley, literary critic
- Augustus Hare, writer
- Michael Brand, composer
- W. G. Collingwood, artist
- Kodwo Eshun writer, theorist and filmmaker
- Maurizio Giuliano, writer, traveller, and United Nations official
- Ivo Graham, comedian and writer
- Fred Harrison (born 1944), author and economist
- Armando Iannucci, comedian, writer, satirist and radio producer
- Richard Ingrams, co-founder of Private Eye
- Richard Jago, poet
- Gerard Langbaine, biographer
- C. S. Lewis, writer, critic; student there from 1919 to 1923 (originally joined in 1917 but left soon afterwards after being called up for action in the Great War); Philosophy tutor from 1924 to 1925
- Peter McDonald, poet
- Cecil Mercer, novelist
- Andrew Motion, British Poet Laureate
- Neel Mukherjee, novelist
- Braham Murray, theatre director
- Shiva Naipaul, novelist and writer
- Sir V. S. Naipaul, writer and Nobel Laureate
- Andrew Robinson, author and former newspaper editor
- Aubrey de Sélincourt, writer and classicist
- William Shawcross, chairman of the Charity Commission for England and Wales, writer
- Desmond Shawe-Taylor, artist
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet
- Sophie Solomon, violinist, songwriter and composer
- Charles Sorley, poet
- Stephen Spender, poet and writer
- Mams Taylor, recording artist/songwriter, mixed-martial arts fighter and activist
- Rajiva Wijesinha, writer
- Fabian S. Woodley, poet
Philosophers and theologians
- Willie E. Abraham, Ghanaian philosopher, first African fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
- F. H. Bradley, Idealist philosopher
- David O. Brink (visiting student), American moral and political philosopher
- Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare, orientalist and religious thinker
- A. C. Ewing, philosopher
- A. D. Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, Scottish political philosopher and historian of philosophy, Master of Balliol College, Oxford
- R. G. Collingwood, Idealist philosopher and archaeologist
- Gareth Evans, philosopher of language and mind, Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy
- John Finnis, Australian legal philosopher
- Owen Fiss, American jurist, Sterling Professor (Yale University)
- Mark de Bretton Platts, philosopher of language
- Mortimer Sellers, American jurist
- Irving Singer (did not take degree), American philosopher
- Peter Singer, Australian moral and political philosopher, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics (Princeton University)
- Jeremy Waldron, New Zealander political and legal philosopher, former Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory
- Kwasi Wiredu, Ghanaian philosopher
Broadcasters, journalists and entertainers
- Peter Beinart, The New Republic 1999âÂÂ2006, editor-at-large 2006âÂÂ
- Nick Denton, founder of Gawker media
- Edward Enfield, broadcaster and writer
- Paul Foot, journalist and socialist
- Richard Francis, managing director of BBC radio
- Paul Gambaccini, presenter of and writer on pop music
- Christopher Hitchens, atheist, Vanity Fair Writer
- Gordon Honeycombe, actor and playwright
- Tom Hooper, Academy Award-winning director
- Aboubakr Jamaï, journalist
- Owen Jones, author and journalist
- Christina Lamb, journalist and author
- Warren Mitchell, actor
- James Owen, writer and journalist
- Nigel Playfair, actor and theatre manager
- Mike Ratledge, keyboardist and composer
- James Ridley, author
- Nick Robinson, journalist and BBC political editor
- Rajdeep Sardesai, journalist
- Peter Sissons, television newsreader
- Philippa Thomas, journalist and chief presenter at BBC World News
- Alex Thomson, television journalist
- Michael York, actor
- Andy Zaltzman, political comedian
Scientists, inventors and engineers
Social scientists, historians and philologists
- Ernst Badian, classical scholar, John Moors Cabot Professor of History Emeritus at Harvard University
- James Franck Bright, historian, Master of University College, Oxford
- Hedley Bull, Australian scholar of international relations
- Robin Darwall-Smith, archivist of University College
- E. R. Dodds, Irish classicist, Regius Professor of Greek (Oxford)
- Katharine Ellis, music historian
- Christopher Fyfe, historian of west Africa
- E. V. Gordon, Canadian philologist, editor and teacher of medieval Germanic languages
- Norman Hampson, historian of the French Revolution
- Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin, historian
- Sir William Jones, Anglo-Welsh philologist, discoverer of Sanskrit's relationship to Latin and Greek
- Aly Kassam-Remtulla, Canadian anthropologist
- Monier Monier-Williams, linguist, Boden Professor of Sanskrit
- Herman Ramm, archaeologist
- Geoffrey Serle, Australian historian
- Ernest de Sélincourt, literary critic and editor
Sports people
- John Allen, Australian teacher, rugby player and cricketer
- Francis Birley, three-time winner of the FA Cup in the 1870s
- Mark Evans, Canadian rower, Olympic Gold Medallist in the 8+, Los Angeles 1984 Olympics
- J. Michael Evans, Canadian rower, Olympic Gold Medallist in the 8+, Los Angeles 1984 Olympics
- Alan Fyffe, 1908 Olympian
- Thomas Gubb, rugby union international, represented Great Britain on 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina
- Douglas Mackintosh, alpine skier, participated in the 1956 Winter Olympics
- Nick Mallett, rugby player and coach
- Charles Thomas McMillen, retired NBA professional basketball player, US congressman
- Richard Nerurkar, Olympic athlete
- Acer Nethercott, British coxswain, Olympic silver medallist for GB 8+, Beijing 2008 Olympics
- James Parker, rower
- Tom Solesbury, GB pair, Beijing 2008 Olympics, and GB quad, London 2012 Olympics
- Adrian Stoop, rugby player
- Ralph Williams, cricketer and barrister
Judges and lawyers
- Oswald Cheung, barrister of Hong Kong, known as the "doyen of the bar"
- Christian Cole, Inner Temple member and first black graduate of Oxford University
- Kenneth Diplock, judge and Law Lord
- Andrew Edis, judge
- Sir David Edward, Scottish lawyer and academic, Judge of the European Court of Justice
- Robert A. Gorman (born 1937), law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- John Dyson Heydon, Justice of the High Court of Australia
- David Hodgson, Australian judge
- Jonathan Mance, Baron Mance, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- Evelyn Monier-Williams, circuit judge
- Walter Paton (1853âÂÂ1937), English barrister who played for Oxford University in the 1873 FA Cup Final
- Sir John Richardson, Puisne Judge of Common Pleas
- Geoffrey Robertson, human rights barrister, academic, author and broadcaster
- Joseph Santamaria, Judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria
- Raymond Wacks, Emeritus Professor of Law and Legal Theory, author
Military
Business people
Other
- G.G. Bradley, noted Latinist, college master
- Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill Clinton, the 42nd U.S. President, and the former U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton
- Michael Hoban, headmaster of Harrow School
- Luke McShane, chess Grandmaster
- Joseph Bennet Odunton, Ghanaian public servant, first black African to hold appointment at the Buckingham Palace
- Sir Alan Stewart, founding vice-chancellor of Massey University, New Zealand
- Edward Maunde Thompson, Principal Librarian British Museum 1888âÂÂ98, Director and Principal Librarian 1898âÂÂ1909
- Israel Tonge, conspirator
- John Webster, classical organist
- Felix Yusupov, participant in the murder of Grigori Rasputin
Future fellows
A number of alumni became fellows at their Alma mater at some point in their academic career. Honorary fellows are marked with an asterisk.
- John Appleton, academic and later Master
- Peter Bayley, literary critic
- Thomas Bennet, academic and later Master
- Thomas Benwell, academic and later Master
- Joseph Bingham, historian
- Jon Blundy, geologist
- George Granville Bradley, priest and later Master of the college
- James Franck Bright, historian and later Master
- John Browne, academic, later Master
- Robert Burton, academic and later Master
- Roger Cashmore, physicist
- Richard Clayton, canon and later Master
- Bill Clinton*, 42nd President of the United States
- Thomas Cockman, academic and later Master
- George Croft, priest
- Horace Davey, judge and politician
- E. R. Dodds, classicist
- Gareth Evans, philosopher
- Robin Fearn, diplomat
- Thomas Foston, Master of the college
- Valpy French, Christian missionary
- John Finnis, legal philosopher
- Laurence Grensted, priest and chaplain of University College
- Edmund Lacey, bishop and later Master
- Reginald Walter Macan, classical scholar and later Master
- Jonathan Mance*, judge
- Peter Medd, priest
- James Plaskitt, politician
- Thomas Plumer, lawyer and politician
- Frederick Charles Plumptre, classicist and later Master
- David Renton*, politician
- Bill Roscoe, computer scientist
- Sir Amherst Selby-Bigge, civil servant and academic
- William Smith, antiquary and author of The Annals of University College
- Travers Twiss, jurist
- Obadiah Walker, historian and later Master
- Abraham Woodhead, writer
See also
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