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) <small>Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister</small>
• Stephen Barley <small>The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova</small>
• Lyra Belacqua (the fictional Jordan) <small>His Dark Materials</small>
• Edmund Bertram <small>Mansfield Park</small>
• Anthony Blanche <small>Brideshead Revisited</small>
• James Bond <small>Tomorrow Never Dies</small>
• Lord Brideshead <small>Brideshead Revisited</small>
• Tom Brown (St Ambrose's, probably based on Oriel) <small>Tom Brown at Oxford</small>
• Prince Bumpo <small>Doctor Dolittle</small>
• 'Chacko' <small>The God of Small Things</small>
• The Clerk of Oxenford <small>The Canterbury Tales</small>
• Simon Cormack <small>The Negotiator</small>
• Frasier Crane <small>Frasier</small>
• Thomas Crown <small>The Thomas Crown Affair</small>
• Dick Diver (Rhodes Scholar) <small>Tender Is the Night</small>
• Zuleika Dobson <small>by Max Beerbohm</small>
• Robert Elsmere <small>by Mrs Humphry Ward</small>
• Kivrin Engle <small>Doomsday Book</small>
• Gervase Fen (the fictional St Christopher's) <small> by Edmund Crispin</small>
• Edward Ferrars <small>Sense and Sensibility</small>
• Lord Sebastian Flyte (Christ Church) <small>Brideshead Revisited</small>
• Charles Gardner (the fictional St Sebastian's) <small>Hut 33</small>
• Jay Gatsby <small>The Great Gatsby</small>
• Rupert Giles <small>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</small>
• Patrick Grant (the fictional St Mark's) <small>by Margaret Yorke</small>
• Verdant Green (the fictional Brazenface) <small>The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green</small>
• Rev. Mr. Hale (the fictional Plymouth, based on Exeter College) <small>North and South</small>
• Basil Hallward <small>The Picture of Dorian Gray</small>
• Bill Haydon <small> by John le Carré</small>
• Captain Hook (Balliol) <small>Peter Pan</small>
• Master Keaton and his wife (Somerville)
• John Kemp <small>Jill</small>
• Vanessa Kensington <small>'</small>
• Chatter Lal <small>Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom</small>
• Archie Leach <small>A Fish Called Wanda</small>
• Canon Leigh (Christ Church) <small>Towers in the Mist by Elizabeth Goudge</small>
• Alwin Lowdham <small>The Notion Club Papers</small>
• DI Thomas Lynley <small>The Inspector Lynley Mysteries</small>
• Helen Magnus <small>Sanctuary</small>
• Pincher Martin (Christ Church)
• Mary, Marie, Margaret and Myfanwy (the fictional St Bride's College (Somerville)) <small>by Philip Larkin</small>
• Ranald McKechnie (a fictional college with a Surrey Quad) <small>A Staircase in Surrey</small>
• Jenny Mellor (Merton College) <small>An Education</small>
• Colonel Sebastian Moran <small>The Adventure of the Empty House</small>
• Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse (St John's) <small>Colin Dexter's Morse novels and TV adaptations</small>
• Fox Mulder <small>The X-Files</small>
• Nikki (Wadham) <small>The Incandescent by Emily Tesh</small>
• Duncan Patullo (a fictional college with a Surrey Quad) <small>A Staircase in Surrey</small>
• Paul <small>The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova</small>
• Paul Pennyfeather (the fictional Scone College) <small>Decline and Fall</small>
• Charles Reding (the fictional St Saviour's College) <small>Loss and Gain</small>
• Rumpole of the Bailey (Keble or the fictional St Joseph's)
• Mary Russell <small> by Laurie R. King</small>
• Charles Ryder <small>Brideshead Revisited</small>
• Connie Sachs <small> by John le Carré</small>
• Donna Sheridan (New College) <small>Mamma Mia!</small>
• George Smiley (Lincoln) <small> by John le Carré</small>
• Roderick Spode <small>The Code of the Woosters</small>
• Gwen Stacy (Somerville) <small> in The Amazing Spider-Man 2</small>
• Prince Nasir al-Subaai and Prince Meshal al-Subaai <small>Syriana</small>
• Connie Tate <small>The West Wing TV series</small>
• Sir Leigh Teabing <small>The Da Vinci Code</small>
• Paul Temple <small>by Francis Durbridge</small>
• Nigel Thornberry <small>The Wild Thornberrys</small>
• Henry Tilney <small>Northanger Abbey</small>
• Professor Timberlake (J. R. R. Tolkien) (a fictional college with a Surrey Quad) <small>A Staircase in Surrey</small>
• Harriet Vane (the fictional Shrewsbury College (Somerville)) <small>by Dorothy L. Sayers</small>
• Sapphire Walden (St. Catherine's) <small>The Incandescent by Emily Tesh</small>
• Will (Christ Church) <small>The Incandescent by Emily Tesh</small>
• Lord Peter Wimsey (Balliol) <small>by Dorothy L. Sayers</small>
• Viscount St George Wimsey (Christ Church) <small>by Dorothy L. Sayers</small>
• Bertie Wooster (Magdalen) <small>by P. G. Wodehouse</small>
• Lord Henry Wotton <small>The Picture of Dorian Gray</small>
• Charles Xavier (Pembroke) <small>X-Men</small>