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 Leigh Teabing The Da Vinci Code
- Sir Humphrey Appleby GCB (Baillie, perhaps Balliol College) Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister
- Stephen Barley The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
- Lyra Belacqua (Jordan) His Dark Materials
- Edmund Bertram Mansfield Park
- Anthony Blanche Brideshead Revisited
- James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies
- Lord Brideshead Brideshead Revisited
- Tom Brown (St Ambrose's, probably based on Oriel) Tom Brown at Oxford
- Prince Bumpo Doctor Dolittle
- Helen Magnus Sanctuary (TV series)
- Chaucer's clerk of Oxenford Canterbury Tales
- Chacko The God of Small Things
- Frasier Crane Frasier
- Thomas Crown The Thomas Crown Affair
- Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
- Kivrin Engle Doomsday Book
- Gervase Fen (St Christopher's) by Edmund Crispin
- Edward Ferrars Sense and Sensibility
- Lord Sebastian Flyte (Christ Church) Brideshead Revisited
- Jay Gatsby The Great Gatsby
- Rupert Giles Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Verdant Green (Brazenface) The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
- Mr. Hale North and South (1854 novel)
- Captain Hook (Balliol) Peter Pan
- Basil Hallward The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Master Keaton and his wife (Somerville College)
- John Kemp Jill
- Vanessa Kensington Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
- Chatter Lal Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Mary, Marie, Margaret and Myfanwy (the fictional St Bride's College (Somerville)) by Philip Larkin
- Ranald McKechnie (the fictional Surrey College) A Staircase in Surrey
- Jenny Mellor (Merton College) An Education
- Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse (St John's) Colin Dexter's Morse novels and TV adaptation
- Fox Mulder The X-Files
- Duncan Patullo (the fictional Surrey College) A Staircase in Surrey
- Paul Temple, (detective) by Francis Durbridge
- Paul The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
- Paul Pennyfeather (the fictional Scone College) Decline and Fall
- Mary Russell by Laurie R. King
- Charles Ryder Brideshead Revisited
- Donna Sheridan (New College), Mamma Mia!
- George Smiley (Lincoln) by John le Carré
- Gwen Stacy (Somerville College) in The Amazing Spider-Man 2
- Prince Nasir al-Subaai and Prince Meshal al-Subaai Syriana
- Connie Tate The West Wing TV series
- Nigel Thornberry The Wild Thornberrys
- Henry Tilney Northanger Abbey
- Professor Timberlake (J. R. R. Tolkien) (the fictional Surrey College) A Staircase in Surrey
- Harriet Vane (the fictional Shrewsbury College (Somerville)) by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Lord Peter Wimsey (Balliol) by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Viscount St George Wimsey (Christ Church) by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Bertie Wooster (Magdalen) P. G. Wodehouse
- Lord Henry Wotton The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Charles Xavier (Pembroke) X-Men
