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The following is a list of notable people educated at Balliol College, Oxford. When available, year of matriculation is provided in parenthesis, as listed in the relevant edition of The Balliol College Register or in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. More than one in twenty Balliol former students are listed in Who's Who.[citation needed]

Former students

Economics

Adam Smith

History

James Billington

Law

Lord Bingham

Letters / Arts

Henry Sweet

Mathematics/Science/Technology

Richard Dawkins

Media

Other

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Arthur Davids

Philosophy

Poetry

Hilaire Belloc
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Politics

Currently active

UK politicians active post-World War II

UK politicians active between World War I and World War II

Lord Curzon

UK politicians pre-World War I

Politicians/statesmen/monarchs in non-UK countries

Richard von Weizsäcker

Religion

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Shoghi Effendi
John Wycliffe

Notable applicants who were not matriculated (public domain information)

Balliol Chancellors of Oxford University

Masters of Balliol

Source: Frances Paravicini, Early History of Balliol College (1891)

  • Walter de Fodringeye . . . 1282
  • Hugh de Warkenby . . . 1296
  • Stephen de Cornubia . . . 1303
  • Richard de Chickwell . . . 1309
  • Thomas de Waldeby . 1321
  • Henry de Seton . . 1323
  • Nicholas de Luceby . 1327
  • John Poclynton . . 1332
  • Hugh Corbrygge 1340
  • Robert de Derby . . . 1356
  • John Wyclif ..... 1360
  • John Hugate . . 1366
  • Thomas Tyrwhit . . .1371
  • Hamond Haskman . . 1397
  • William Lambert . . . 1406
  • Thomas Chace . . . .1412
  • Robert Burley . . 1428
  • Richard Stapilton .... 1429
  • William Brandon .... 1429
  • Robert Twaytes .... 1450
  • William Lambton . . . .1461
  • John Segden .... 1472
  • Robert Abdy . . 1477
  • William Bell . . 1496
  • Richard Barningham . 1504
  • Thomas Cisson . . . .1511
  • Richard Stubbys . . . .1518
  • William White . 1525
  • George Coote . , J539
  • William Wright . . 1545
  • James Brooks . . 1547
  • William Wright . . . 1555
  • Francis Babington . . . 1559
  • Antony Garnet . . 1560
  • Richard Hooper .... 1563
  • Robert Hooper .... 1567
  • John Piers . . . 1570
  • Adam Squier . . .1571
  • Edmund Lilly .... 1580
  • Robert Abbots . . . 1609
  • John Parkhurst . 1616
  • Thomas Laurence. . . .1637
  • George Bradshaw . . . 1646
  • Henry Savage . . . 1650
  • Thomas Good .... 1672
  • John Verre 1678
  • Roger Mander . . . .1687
  • John Baron . . . 1704
  • Joseph Hunt. . . .1721
  • Theophilus Leigh . . . .1726
  • John Davey I785
  • John Parsons . . 1798
  • Richard Jenkyns . . . .1819
  • Robert Scott .... 1854
  • Benjamin Jowett .... 1870
  • Edward Caird 1893-1907 Snell Exhibitioner 1860. Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Glasgow 1866. Died 1907. Buried in St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Oxford. Portrait in Hall. First lay Master. ODNB.
  • James Leigh Strachan Davidson 1907-1916 Fellow 1866. Died 1916. Buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford. Portrait in Hall. ODNB.
  • Arthur Lionel Smith 1916-1924 Fellow 1882. Died 1924. Buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford. Portrait in Hall. ODNB.
  • Alexander Dunlop Lindsay 1924-1949 Fellow 1906. Vice-Chancellor 1935. Founder, University of Keele. Died 1952. Portrait in Hall. Bust in Library. Lord Lindsay of Birker,1945. ODNB.
  • Sir David Lindsay Keir 1949-1965 Fellow of University Coll. 1921. Vice-Chancellor, Queens University, Belfast 1939. Portrait in Hall. Died 1973. ODNB.
  • John Edward Christopher Hill 1965-1978 Fellow 1938. Portrait in Hall.
  • Anthony John Patrick Kenny 1978-1989 Fellow 1964. Portrait in Hall. Knighted 1992.
  • Baruch Samuel Blumberg 1989-1994 George Eastman Visiting Professor 1983. Portrait in Hall. Nobel Laureate.
  • Colin Renshaw Lucas 1994-2001 Fellow 1973. Vice-Chancellor 1997-2004. Knighted 2002. Portrait in Hall.
  • Andrew Graham 2001- Fellow 1969. Acting Master 1997-2001

See also

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