List of Rhodes Scholars

Notable Rhodes Scholars

This page provides a list of Notable Rhodes Scholarship recipients - in sort by Year by Surname

See also: Rhodes scholars category

1900s

Name	University	Oxford College	Year	Notability
John Behan	Melbourne	Hertford	1904	Lawyer, Academic (University and Trinity Colleges)
John J. Tigert	Vanderbilt	Pembroke	1904	U.S. Commissioner of Education (1921-1928), President of University of Florida (1928-1947)
Earnest A. Hooten	Wisconsin		1907	American physical anthropologist
Alain LeRoy Locke	Harvard	Hertford	1907	Philosopher, writer, educator and Harlem Renaissance patron
Neal Macrossan	Queensland	Magdalen	1907	Chief Justice of Queensland 1946-1955
Frank E. Holman	Utah		1908	President, American Bar Association (1948)
Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff	Germany	Trinity	1909	German diplomat, executed for conspiracy against Hitler, 1945

1910s

Name	University	Oxford College	Year	Notability
Frido von Senger				German General in WWII
Marius Barbeau	Laval	Oriel	1910	Canadian ethnographer and folklorist
Elmer Davis	Franklin College		1910	American newsman, Director of the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II
Ralph Hartley	Utah	St John's	1910	Inventor, Mathematician, IRE Medal of Honor 1946
Jan Hofmeyr	Cape Town	Balliol	1910	Academic, Public Administrator, South African liberal politician
Edwin Hubble	Chicago	Queen's	1910	American astronomer
John Crowe Ransom	Vanderbilt	Christ Church	1910	Poet
Frank Aydelotte	Indiana	Brasenose	1911	President of Swarthmore College (1921-1940)
Brand Blanshard	Michigan	Merton	1913	Philosopher
Charles R. Clason	Bates College	Christ Church	1914	U.S. Congressman (Massachusetts), 1937-1949
Norman Manley MM QC NH		Jesus	1914	Chief Minister of Jamaica, 1955-1959, Premier of Jamaica, 1959-1962,
Wilder Penfield OM CC	Princeton	Merton	1914	Canadian neurosurgeon
Robert P. T. Coffin	Princeton		1917	Writer, poet & professor. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1936.
John Monk Saunders	Washington	Magdalen	1918	Screenwriter of Wings and The Dawn Patrol
Herbert Eugene Clefton	Minnesota		1919	Teacher in Minneapolis, then a Professor at University of Minnesota
Roland Michener PC CC	Alberta	Hertford	1919	Governor General of Canada (1967-1974), lawyer, politician

1920s

Name	University	Oxford College	Year	Notability
John Marshall Harlan II	Princeton	Balliol	1920	Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1955-1971
Fred Paterson	Queensland		1920	The only Australian Communist politician ever to win an election
Howard Florey	Adelaide	Magdalen	1921	Australian pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1945 (for penicillin)
Sir Keith Hancock KBE	Melbourne	Balliol	1921	Historian, academic, biographer
William Stevenson	Andover and Princeton		1922	American Olympic gold medalist in 1924 (Paris), President of Oberlin College (1946-1961), U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines (1961-1965)
Hervey M. Cleckley	Georgia		1924	Psychiatrist, pioneer in the field of psychopathy, co-author of The Three Faces of Eve
Sir John Eccles	Melbourne	Magdalen	1925	Australian scientist (neurophysiologist), Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1963, for his work on the synapse
J. William Fulbright	Arkansas	Pembroke	1925	U.S. Senator for Arkansas (1945-1974), originator of the Fulbright Fellowship program
Robert J. van de Graaff	Alabama	Queen's	1925	Physicist, Inventor, Academic (M.I.T. & Princeton), Inventor of the eponymous Van de Graaff generator
Holbrook Mann MacNeille	Swarthmore College	Balliol	1928	Mathematician, Academic, Scientific Director Office of Scientific Research and Development
Robert Penn Warren	Vanderbilt	New College	1928	American poet and critic
Cleanth Brooks	Vanderbilt & Tulane	Exeter	1929	American literary critic
George Stanley CC	Alberta	Keble	1929	Canadian historian, designer of Canadian flag, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick

1930s

Name	University	Oxford College	Year	Notability
Charles Herbert Little	Toronto	Brasenose	1930	Director of Canadian Naval Intelligence during World War II
"Fritz" Schumacher	Bonn and Berlin	New College	1930	Economist, statistician, author, social theorist, public speaker
Carl Albert	Oklahoma	St Peter's	1931	Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives (1971-1977), U.S. Congressman (Oklahoma), 1947-1977
Jack Lovelock	Otago	Exeter	1931	1500 metre Olympic Gold medallist in 1936 Berlin Olympics
Dean Rusk	Davidson College	St John's	1931	U.S. Secretary of State, 1961-1969
Adam von Trott zu Solz	Germany	Balliol	1931	German diplomat and anti-Nazi patriot, executed in 1944
Ted Jolliffe	Toronto	Christ Church	1932	Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (1943-1945, 1948-1951)
David Lewis	McGill	Lincoln	1932	Member of parliament and leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada (1971-1975)
W.L. Morton	Manitoba	St John's	1932	Canadian historian
Ivan A. Getting	M.I.T.	Merton	1933	American weapons scientist and co-inventor of GPS technology
Daniel Boorstin	Harvard	Balliol	1934	U.S. Librarian of Congress, 1975-1987
Max Gluckman	Transvaal	Exeter	1934	South African-British-Israeli social anthropologist
Wilbur Jackett	Saskatchewan	Queen's	1934	Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada (1971-1979)
George C. McGhee	SMU	Queen's	1934	U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (1952-1953) and to Germany (1963-1968)
Sir John Templeton	Yale	Balliol	1934	Businessman and founder of Templeton College, Oxford
Sir Arnold Smith	Ontario	Christ Church	1935	First Secretary-General of the Commonwealth
Walter H. Stockmayer	M.I.T.	Jesus	1935	American polymer chemist
Gordon A. Craig	Princeton	Balliol	1936	American historian and OSS veteran
Dan Davin	Otago	Balliol	1936	New Zealand novelist and head of Oxford University Press
Philip Mayer Kaiser	Wisconsin	Balliol	1936	U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania (1961-1964), Hungary (1977-1980), and Austria (1980-1981), U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs (1949-1953), Special Assistant to Governor Averell Harriman (1955-1959)
John B. Oakes	Princeton	Queen's	1936	New York "Times" editor of the editorial page, 1961-1976
Sir Richard Edmonds Luyt	Cape Town	Trinity	1937	Soldier, statesman and principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town
Howard K. Smith	Tulane	Merton	1937	Broadcast journalist
W. Denham Sutcliffe		Hertford	1937	English scholar at Bates College, Kenyon, and Harvard.
Courtney Craig Smith	Iowa	Merton	1938	Educationalist, President of Swarthmore College
Byron White	Colorado	Hertford	1938	Football player, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1962-1993
Dominic Mintoff	Malta	Hertford	1939	Prime Minister of Malta, 1955-1957 & 1971-1984

1940s

Name	University	Oxford College	Year	Notability
Sir Zelman Cowen AK GCMG GCVO QC	Melbourne	New College	1941	Australian jurist and academic, Governor General of Australia (1977–1982)
Paul J. Bohannan	Arizona	Queen's	1947	American social anthropologist
Alastair Gillespie OC	McGill		1947	Canadian politician, cabinet minister
James McNaughton Hester	Princeton	Pembroke	1947	First Rector of the United Nations University, President of New York University
Nicholas Katzenbach	Princeton and Yale	Balliol	1947	U.S. Attorney General (1965-1966), U.S. Under-Secretary of State (1966-1969)
Bernard W. Rogers	U.S. Military Academy	University	1947	American general, Supreme Allied Commander, NATO
Stansfield Turner	U.S. Naval Academy	Exeter	1947	American admiral, Director of Central Intelligence (1977-1981)
Guy Davenport	Duke	Merton	1948	American writer and man of letters
Peter Durack QC	Western Australia		1948	Australian politician, Commonwealth Attorney General, author
Eric Prabhakar	India	Christ Church	1948	Indian Olympic athlete
Robert Burchfield	Victoria (NZ)	Magdalen	1949	New Zealand lexicographer, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary
John Turner PC CC QC	British Columbia	Magdalen	1949	Liberal Party of Canada leader and Prime Minister of Canada, 1984

1950s

Name	University	Oxford College	Year	Notability
James H. Billington	Princeton	Balliol	1950	Academic, Historian, Librarian of U.S. Congress, 1987-
John Brademas	Harvard	Brasenose	1950	U.S. Congressman (Indiana) 1959-1981, President of New York University 1981-1992
Tanjore R. Anantharaman	India	Trinity	1951	Indian metallurgist
Richard N. Gardner	Harvard and Yale	Balliol	1951	U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1977-1981) and to Spain (1993-1997), Academic
Stuart Hall	Jamaica	Merton	1951	British cultural theorist
A. Walton Litz	Princeton		1951	Professor of English Literature at Princeton (1956-1993), literary historian and critic, author, editor
Thomas A. Bartlett	Oregon	University	1951	President of the American University in Cairo, 1963-1969, Interim President of AUC, 2002-2003; Chancellor of the University of Alabama System, 1981-1989; Chancellor of the State University of New York, 1994-1996
John Searle	Wisconsin	Christ Church	1952	American philosopher
James Gobbo CVO AC QC	Melbourne	Magdalen	1952	Victorian Supreme Court Judge and Governor of Victoria
Guido Calabresi	Yale	Magdalen	1953	American legal academic, Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, Professor and Dean at Yale Law School
Ronald M. Dworkin	Harvard	Magdalen	1953	American legal philosopher, Academic
Edward de Bono	Malta	Christ Church	1953	Maltese writer; psychologist; author
Julian Ogilvie Thompson	Diocesan College	Worcester	1953	South African Businessman, former chairman of De Beers and Anglo American
Robert J. L. (Bob) Hawke	Western Australia	University	1953	World record for the fastest consumption a yard glass of beer, President ACTU 1969-1979, Prime Minister of Australia 1983-1991
Laurie Ackermann	Cape Province	Worcester	1954	Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Lord Hoffmann	Cape Town	Queen's	1954	UK Lord Justice of Appeal
Norman F. Cantor	Manitoba and Princeton	Oriel	1954	Canadian historian of the Middle Ages
Richard G. Lugar	Denison University	Pembroke	1954	U.S. Senator for Indiana, 1977-
Paul S. Sarbanes	Princeton	Balliol	1954	U.S. Senator for Maryland, 1977-2007
Robert O. Paxton	Washington and Lee University	Merton	1954	Historian, academic
Ranjit Roy Chaudhury	India	Magdalen	1955	Medical scientist
John H. Morrison	New Mexico	University	1955	Senior partner, Kirkland & Ellis, and President of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars
Reynolds Price	Duke University	Merton	1955	Poet and novelist
Johan Steyn	Cape Province	University	1955	UK Lord Justice of Appeal
Virendra Dayal	India	University	1956	Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
Elliott H. Levitas	Emory	University	1956	U.S. Congressman (Georgia), 1975-1985
Neil Leon Rudenstine	Princeton	New College	1956	Educator, President of Harvard University, 1991-2001
Arthur Kroeger CC	Alberta	Pembroke	1956	Canadian civil servant and diplomat, Chancellor of Carleton University, 1993-2002
Ranjit Bhatia	India	Jesus	1957	Indian Olympic athlete
Erich S. Gruen	Columbia	Merton	1957	Austrian-American classical scholar
Rex Nettleford	Jamaica	Oriel	1957	Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, author, dance director
Robert I. Rotberg	Princeton	University	1957	American political scientist
Aaron Sloman	Cape Town	Balliol	1957	Philosopher, AI researcher, Cognitive Scientist.
Michael Fried	Princeton and Harvard	Merton	1958	American art historian and critic
Kris Kristofferson	Pomona College	Merton	1958	American actor and musician
Joseph Nye, Jr.	Princeton	Exeter	1958	American political scientist, Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (1993-1994), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1994-1995), Dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
Jonathan Kozol	Harvard	Magdalen	1958	American writer and social activist
Manmohan Malhoutra	Delhi	Balliol	1958	Assistant Secretary-General of the Commonwealth
Desmond Morton	Royal Military College of Canada			Historian and author
Peter M. Dawkins	U.S. Military Academy	Brasenose	1959	1958 Heisman Trophy Winner, Brigadier General, US Army (Ret. 1983), Chairman and CEO of Diversified Distribution Services, Travelers Group
Benjamin Bernard Dunlap			1959	President of Wofford College, Professor of humanities

1960s

Name	University	Oxford College	Year	Notability
Rex Adams	Duke University	Merton	1962	Chairman of the Board of PBS, Dean of the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
David R. Woods	Rhodes University	University	1963	Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University
Montek Singh Ahluwalia	St. Stephen's	Magdalen	1964	Indian economist, first independent evaluator of IMF, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India
Thomas H. Allen	Bowdoin	Wadham	1967	American politician, U.S. Congressman (Maine), 1997-
Paul Bamberg				Senior Lecturer of Mathematics and Physics at Harvard University, Co-founded Dragon Systems and headed the research department that created Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Gilles Berthiaume		Keble	1966	Program Manager, Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Dennis C. Blair	U.S. Naval Academy	University	1970	Retired 4-star Admiral, President of the Institute for Defense Analyses and former Commander in Chief of U.S. Pacific Command
William Walter Bradley	Princeton	Worcester	1965	American politician, NBA star, U.S. Senator for New Jersey, 1979-1997, and Democratic presidential candidate, 2000
Robin Boadway	Royal Military College of Canada		1964	Canadian economist and author
Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr.	Harvard College	Exeter	1968	Publisher and CEO of The Washington Post
David Boren	Yale	Balliol	1963	Governor of Oklahoma, 1975-1979); U.S. Senator for Oklahoma, 1979-1994; President of the University of Oklahoma
Richard F. Celeste	Yale	Exeter	1960	Governor of Ohio (1983-1991), Director of the Peace Corps, U.S. Ambassador to India, President of Colorado College
Wesley K. Clark	U.S. Military Academy	Magdalen	1966	American military officer, Supreme Allied Commander, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1997-2000; Democratic presidential candidate, 2004
William Jefferson Clinton	Georgetown	University	1968	American politician, 42nd President of the United States, 1993-2001, Governor of Arkansas, 1979-1981 & 1983-1993
William A. Fletcher	Harvard	Merton	1968	Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
The Rt. Rev. Thomas Frerking, O.S.B.	Harvard	Trinity College	1966	Abbot, Abbey of St. Mary and St. Louis
David B. Frohnmayer	Harvard	Wadham	1962	President of the University of Oregon, 1994-; Attorney General of Oregon, 1980-1991
Bryan Gould	New Zealand	Balliol	1963	British politician, Labour MP for Dagenham
David C. Hardesty, Jr.	West Virginia	Queen's	1967	President of West Virginia University
Dyson Heydon	Sydney		1964	High Court Judge of Australia
Girish Karnad	Karnatak	Lincoln and Magdalen	1960	Indian Kannada-language playwright, film actor and director, screenwriter
David E. Kendall	Wabash College	Worcester	1966	American lawyer, President Clinton's personal lawyer
J. Michael Kirchberg, Jr.	California	Brasenose	1967	USNA, American educator
Chris Laidlaw	Otago	Merton	1969	New Zealand All Black, diplomat, MP, author, Human Rights Commissioner and Race Relations Conciliator
Ira Magaziner	Brown University	Balliol	1969	White House Senior Aide, 1993-1999, originator of ICANN
Terrence Malick	Harvard	Magdalen	1966	American film director of The Thin Red Line, Badlands, and The New World
Robert McCallum, Jr.	Yale	Christ Church	1968	American lawyer, U.S. Associate Attorney General, 2003-
Rex Murphy	Memorial University	St Edmund	1968	Canadian commentator
Deepak Nayyar	India	Balliol	1967	Vice Chancellor of Delhi University
Stephen A. Oxman	New Jersey	New College	1967	U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs, 1993-1994
Robert Reich	Dartmouth College	University	1968	American commentator and author, U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1993-1997
Bob Rae PC OC QC	Toronto	Balliol	1969	Canadian politician, former Premier of Ontario
Larry Pressler	South Dakota	St Edmund	1964	American politician, U.S. Senator for South Dakota, 1979-1997
Wasim Sajjad	Pakistan	Wadham	1964	Pakistani politician and lawyer, Interim President of Pakistan, Chairman of the Senate
A. Michael Spence	Princeton	Magdalen	1966	Canadian economist, Nobel Prize in Economics for 2001
J. Gustave Speth	South Carolina	Balliol	1964	Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, 1993-1999, Dean of School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale
Aftab Seth	India	Christ Church	1965	Indian Ambassador to Japan
William Dennis Shaul	Ohio	Exeter		Legal Counsel for House Banking Committee
Walter B. Slocombe	Michigan	Balliol	1963	U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, 1994-2001, Senior Advisor for National Defense for the CPA, Baghdad, 2003
David Souter	Harvard College	Magdalen	1961	Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1990-
Strobe Talbott	Yale	Magdalen	1968	American diplomat and journalist, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (1994-2001), President of the Brookings Institution
Lester C. Thurow	Williams College	Balliol	1960	American economist and author, professor of economics at MIT
R. James Woolsey	Stanford	St John's	1963	Director of Central Intelligence, 1993-1995
John Edgar Wideman	Pennsylvania	New College		American writer, two-time recipient of PEN/Faulkner award
Danny Williams PC QC	Memorial University		1969	Lawyer and businessman, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
Daryl Williams AM QC	Western Australia		1965	Australian politician, Liberal Member of the House of Representatives, 1993-2004, Attorney-General of Australia 1996-2003

1970s

Name	University	Oxford College	Year	Notability
James Fallows	California	Queen's	1970	American writer (The Atlantic Monthly)
Geoffrey Robertson QC	Sydney		1970	Barrister and international human rights activist
Richard H. Trainor	Rhode Island	Merton	1970	Principal of Kings College London
Franklin D. Raines	Washington	Magdalen	1971	Chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae, 1999-2004; Director of the Office of Management and Budget, 1996-1998
Kurt L. Schmoke	Maryland	Balliol	1971	Mayor of Baltimore, 1987-1999; Dean of Howard University School of Law
James R. Atlas	Illinois	New College	1971	American writer (The New Yorker)
Geoffrey Gallop	Western Australia		1972	Premier of Western Australia, 2001-2006
Michael Kinsley	Michigan	Magdalen	1972	American journalist (Los Angeles Times), founder of Slate magazine, editor of The New Republic
Tom Birmingham	Harvard College	Exeter	1972	President of the Massachusetts Senate, Candidate for Democratic nomination for Governor of Massachusetts, 2002
Kim Beazley			1973	Australian politician, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Opposition
Richard N. Haass	Oberlin College	Wadham & St. Anthony's	1973	President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Director of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State, 2001-2003
E. J. Dionne	Harvard	Balliol	1973	American journalist and Washington Post columnist
Paul Blustein	Wisconsin	Merton	1973	American author and journalist (The Washington Post)
Sir Rod Eddington	Western Australia	Lincoln	1974	Former CEO of British Airways
Charles Thomas McMillen	Maryland	University	1974	U.S. Olympian, NBA basketball player, U.S. Congressman (Maryland), 1987-1993
Walter Isaacson	Harvard	Pembroke	1974	Author, President of the Aspen Institute, Managing Editor of Time magazine (1995-2001), Chairman and CEO of CNN
Elliot F. Gerson	Connecticut	Magdalen	1974	American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, Vice President of the Aspen Institute, Deputy Attorney General of Connecticut
Edwin Cameron	South Africa-at-Large	Keble	1975	Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, African National Congress lawyer and AIDS activist
Larry Sabato	Virginia	Queen's	1975	American political scientist
Russ Feingold	Wisconsin	Magdalen	1975	U.S. Senator for Wisconsin, 1993-
Michael Sandel	Massachusetts	Balliol	1975	American political philosopher and professor at Harvard University
Mel Reynolds	Illinois	Lincoln	1975	U.S. Congressman (Illinois), 1993-1995
Bruce Hoffman	Connecticut College		1976	Professor at Georgetown University, author of "Inside Terrorism"
Alex Sceberras Trigona	Malta	Oriel	1976	Foreign Minister of Malta 1981-1987
Randall Kennedy	Princeton		1977	Harvard Law School Professor
Jack Phillips	McGill	Balliol	1978	American Political Advisor and Inventor
Malcolm Turnbull	Sydney		1978	Australian lawyer, banker and politician
C. David Naylor	Ontario	Hertford	1979	Canadian medical researcher, President of the University of Toronto
Nancy-Ann Min DeParle	Tennessee	Balliol	1979	Administrator of the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration, 1997-2000
Stephen Gumley	Tasmania		1979	Chief Executive Officer of the Defence Materiel Organisation (Australia)

1980s

Name	University	Oxford College	Year	Notability
Elsdon Storey	Victoria	Magdalen & Wolfson	1980	Australian neurologist
Tony Abbott	New South Wales		1980	Australian politician, Minister of health and aging
Clark Ervin	Texas	St Catherine's	1980	Former Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Robert Maloney				LASIK specialist, Extreme Makeover ophthalmologist
Nicholas D. Kristof	Harvard College	Magdalen	1981	New York Times reporter and columnist, 2-time Pulitzer Prize winner
Heather Wilson	U.S. Air Force Academy	Jesus	1982	U.S. Congresswoman (New Mexico), 1998-
Richard Flanagan	Tasmania		1983	Australian author, winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize
David Vitter	Harvard College	Magdalen	1983	U.S. Senator (Louisiana), 2005-
Christopher Eisgruber	Oregon	University	1983	Provost of Princeton University
Elizabeth Kiss	North Carolina	Balliol	1983	President of Agnes Scott College.
Bill Halter	Arkansas	St John's	1983	Arkansas Lt. Governor.
Christopher Hedrick	Washington	Magdalen	1984	President and CEO of Intrepid Learning Solutions
George Stephanopoulos	Columbia	Balliol	1984	Moderator of ABC's This Week and communications director for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign
Brian Greene	New York	Magdalen	1984	American physicist and string theorist
Robert Malley	Connecticut	Magdalen	1984	Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs, National Security Council, 1997-2001
Ronald Tenpas	Michigan State		1984	Associate Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, 2005-
Charles C. Soludo	University of Nigeria		1984	Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, 2003 -
Naomi Wolf	Connecticut	New College	1985	American author and feminist social critic
Peter Rathjen	Adelaide	New College	1985	Australian stem cell scientist, Dean of Science, University of Melbourne 2006-
Joseph M. Torsella			1985	President and CEO of the National Constitution Center 2006-
Susan E. Rice	District of Columbia	New College	1986	U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, 1997-2001
Jacob Weisberg	Illinois	New College	1987	Journalist and editor of Slate magazine
Jim Collins	College of the Holy Cross	Balliol	1987	MacArthur "genius" bioengineer and inventor
Atul Gawande	Ohio	Balliol	1987	Surgeon and New Yorker medical writer
David Chalmers		Lincoln	1987	Australian philosopher of mind
David Kirk	New Zealand	Worcester	1987	Captain of the New Zealand All Blacks who won the inaugural Rugby (Union) World Cup in 1987
Brad Carson	Oklahoma	Trinity	1989	U.S. Congressman (Oklahoma), 2001-2005
Brian K. Whittington	Mississippi			Math & Science and Songwriter 1984
Roosevelt Thompson	Arkansas	St John's		Community activist, Little Rock, Arkansas

1990s

Name	University	Oxford College	Year	Notability
Arthur Mutambara	Zimbabwe	Merton	1991	Zimbabwean politician who became President of one faction of the Movement for Democratic Change in 2006
Cory Booker	New Jersey	Queen's	1992	Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal	Louisiana	New College	1992	U.S. Congressman (Louisiana), 2005-, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, 2001-2004, President of the University of Louisiana System, 1999-2001
Sanjeev Sanyal	India	St John's	1992	Asian economist, banker and conservationist
Nikolas Gvosdev	Florida	St Antony's	1992	Editor of The National Interest
Noah Feldman	Massachusetts	Christ Church	1992	American author, Harvard University law professor, constitutional adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, 2003-2005
Peter Beinart	Massachusetts	University	1993	Editor of The New Republic
Randal Pinkett	New Jersey	Keble	1994	President and CEO of BCT Partners, and winner of The Apprentice 4
Rachel Maddow	California	Lincoln	1995	Host of The Rachel Maddow Show on Air America Radio
Alexander Straub	Germany	St John's	1996	Entrepreneur and Financier
Annette Salmeen	California	St John's	1997	1996 American Olympic gold medalist in swimming
Rachel Simmons	New York	Lincoln	1998	American author of Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls (Harcourt, 2002)
Eric Garcetti	New York	Queen's	1993	President of the Los Angeles City Council
Ben Cannon	Missouri and Corpus Christi		1999	Oregon State Representative
Marc Kielburger				Canadian humanitarian and activist, Free The Children

2000s

Name	University	Oxford College	Year	Notability
Jonathan Bonnitcha	Sydney	Magdalen	2006	Australian Olympic windsurfer, champion sailor, travel writer / tourism critic