List of people from the University of Oxford in academic disciplines

This is a list of people from the University of Oxford in academic disciplines. Many were students at one (or more) of the colleges of the University, and others held fellowships at a college.

This list forms part of a series of lists of people associated with the University of Oxford; for other lists, please see the main article List of University of Oxford people.

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Law

• Nicholas Allard (born 1952), Dean and President of Brooklyn Law School
• William Reynell Anson (Balliol and All Souls) Warden of All Souls 1881–1913, Member of Parliament 1899–1905
• Charles Arnold-Baker (formerly Wolfgang Charles Werner von Blumenthal) (Magdalen)
• Andrew Ashworth (Worcester and All Souls)
• Kenneth Beaumont Chairman International Civil Aviation Organisation 1946–57 (President Legal Committee 1954–57)
• John Behan (Hertford and University) Warden Trinity College, Melbourne 1918–46
• Francis Bennion (Balliol) Parliamentary Counsel 1953-65 and 1973–75, Lecturer University of Oxford 1984-2002
• Peter Birks (Trinity, Brasenose, and All Souls) Hon QC 1995, President Society of Legal Scholars 2002–03
• William Blackstone (Pembroke, All Souls, and New Inn Hall) MP & QC 1761, first Vinerian Professor at Oxford
• Thom Brooks Dean of Durham Law School
• Ruth Chang (Balliol) Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford
• Paul-André Crépeau Director Institute of Comparative Law McGill University 1974–84
• Giuseppina d'Agostino (St. Peter's) intellectual property law, professor at Osgoode Hall Law School
• Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech (St Anne's) Chair HFEA 1994–2002, Gov BBC 2002–06, Independent Adjudicator for Higher Educn 2004–
• A. V. Dicey (Balliol) Professor of Law at Oxford and the LSE
• Cara H. Drinan professor of law at The Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law
• Ronald Dworkin (Magdalen and University) Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale, Oxford, & UCL
• John Eekelaar (Pembroke) expert in family law, Reader in Law University of Oxford 1991–
• Richard Epstein (Oriel) inaugural Tisch Professor of Law and Director of the Classical Liberal Institute, New York University School of Law
• Malcolm Evans (Regent's Park) Prof Public International Law Bristol 99–, Hd of Law 03–05, Dean of Soc Sciences & Law 05–
• Noah Feldman Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
• John Finnis (University) Professor of Law at the Universities of Oxford and Notre Dame
• Owen Fiss Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School
• Mark Freedland (St John's) expert in employment law
• John Gardner (New College, All Souls, Brasenose, and University) Professor of Jurisprudence University of Oxford
• Leslie Green (Nuffield, Lincoln, Balliol) Prof of the Philosophy of Law Oxford, Prof of Law Osgoode Hall Law Sch, York Univ, Canada
• H. L. A. Hart (New College, University, and Brasenose) Author of The Concept of Law (1961)
• Sir William Searle Holdsworth (St John's)
• Tony Honoré (New College, The Queen's and All Souls) Regius Prof Civil Law Oxford 1971–88, Hon QC, Bencher of Lincoln's Inn
• Elena Kagan (Worcester) Dean Harvard Law Sch & Chas Hamilton Houston Prof of Law Harvard Univ, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 2010-–
• Allan Leal (Rhodes Scholarship) former Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School
• Anne M. Lofaso (Somerville)
• Neil MacCormick (Balliol) Regius Prof of Public Law & the Law of Nature & Nations Edinburgh 1972–2008, MEP 1999–2004
• Michael Mandel (B.C.L.)
• Basil Markesinis (St Antony's, Lady Margaret Hall, and Brasenose) professor at Queen Mary, UCL, Oxford, and Texas (Austin)
• Peter North (Jesus)
• Fidelis Oditah (Magdalen and Merton) QC, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, gubernatorial candidate Delta State 2007
• Ann Olivarius (Somerville)
• Stephen R. Perry, John J. O'Brien Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Joseph Raz (Nuffield and Balliol) Professor of the Philosophy of Law University of Oxford and Columbia Law School
• Arthur Richard Andrew Scace Director of Canadian Opera Company
• Richard Searby Lecturer Univ of Melbourne 1961–72, QC 1971, Chancellor Deakin Univ 1997–2005
• Travers Twiss (University) professor at Oxford and King's Coll London, author constitution of Congo Free State (1884)
• Theodore Tylor (Balliol) Fellow and tutor in Jurisprudence, international chess player, worked for blind people
• Amy Wax (Somerville)
• Alison Young (Hertford) Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge

Theology and the study of religions

• Marilyn McCord Adams (Christ Church)
• Henry Airay (St Edmund Hall and The Queen's)
• James Alison (Blackfriars) priest, Order of Preachers 1981-95
• Karen Armstrong (St Anne's)
• John Barton (Oriel) Oriel and Laing Professor, Canon Theologian Winchester Cathl, member of Gen Synod
• Gareth Bennett (New College)
• John Bowker (Worcester) Prof of RS Lancaster 1974-84, Trinity Coll Cambridge 1984-93, Gresham Prof of Divinity 1992-97
• George Granville Bradley (University) Hdmaster of Marlborough Coll 1858-70, Dean of Westminster 1881-1902
• Reginald John Campbell (Christ Church) sometime minister of the City Temple
• Edward Cardwell (Brasenose)
• John Chapman (Christ Church) Abbot of Downside 1929-33
• William Robinson Clark (Hertford)
• William Cole (Corpus Christi)
• Kenneth Cracknell
• Herbert Danby (Keble and Christ Church)
• Douglas Davies
• Christopher Dawson (Trinity)
• John Day (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Gregory Dix (Merton and Keble)
• C. H. Dodd
• David L. Edwards (Magdalen and All Souls) Dean of Norwich 1978-83, Provost of Southwark 1983-94
• Robert Ellis (Regent's Park)
• Mark Elvins (Greyfriars)
• Austin Farrer (Balliol, St Edmund Hall, Trinity, and Keble)
• John Fell (Christ Church)
• Paul S. Fiddes (St Peter's and Regent's Park)
• Richard Fiddes
• Richard Finn (Corpus Christi)
• John Foxe (Brasenose and Magdalen)
• Richard Hurrell Froude (Oriel)
• Timothy Gorringe (St Edmund Hall and St John's) St Luke's Professor of Theological Studies University of Exeter 1998-
• Rose Graham (Somerville)
• Renn Dickson Hampden (Oriel, St Mary Hall, and Christ Church) bishop of Hereford 1847-68
• Daphne Hampson
• Tom Harpur
• James Hervey (Lincoln)
• George Hickes (St John's, Lincoln, Magdalen College, Magdalen Hall) dean of Worcester 1683-88, bp of Thetford 1694
• Carole Hillenbrand (Somerville)
• Leonard Hodgson (Hertford, St Edmund Hall, Magdalen, Christ Church) Regius Professor of Divinity 1944-1958
• Humphrey Hody (Wadham)
• Henry Scott Holland (Christ Church)
• S. H. Hooke (Jesus)
• Richard Hooker (Corpus Christi)
• Lawrence Humphrey (Magdalen)
• William Ince (Lincoln, Exeter, Christ Church)
• E. O. James (Exeter)
• David Jasper (St Stephen's House)
• Jerome of Prague
• Jeffrey John (Hertford, St Stephen's, Brasenose, Magdalen) Dean of St Albans 2003-
• John Keble (Corpus Christi, Oriel)
• Fergus Kerr (Blackfriars)
• Andrew Linzey (Blackfriars)
• John Lowe (Christ Church)
• Diarmaid MacCulloch (St Cross)
• John Macquarrie (Christ Church)
• Herbert McCabe (Blackfriars)
• Alister McGrath (Merton, Wycliffe Hall, and Harris Manchester)
• Adam Marsh (Greyfriars)
• Geoffrey of Monmouth
• Max Müller (Christ Church and All Souls)
• Oliver O'Donovan (Christ Church and Wycliffe Hall)
• J. I. Packer (Corpus Christi and Wycliffe Hall)
• Peter Payne (St Edmund Hall)
• Robert Payne Smith (Christ Church) Dean of Canterbury 1871-95
• Arthur Peacocke (Exeter, St Peter's and Christ Church)
• Edward Pusey (Christ Church)
• Timothy Radcliffe (Blackfriars)
• William Salesbury
• Jane Shaw (Regent's Park and New College)
• Richard Smyth (Merton, Christ Church, and St Alban Hall)
• Janet Soskice (Somerville)
• Vincent Strudwick (Kellogg)
• Iain Torrance (Oriel) Moderator Gen Assembly Church of Scotland 2003-4, Pres Princeton Theological Seminary 2004-
• John Trevisa (The Queen's)
• William Tyndale (Hertford)
• Richard Ullerston (The Queen's)
• Peter Martyr Vermigli (Regius Professor of Divinity)
• Henry Wace (Brasenose)
• William Wall (The Queen's)
• Henry Wansbrough (St Benet's) Pontifical Biblical Commission 1996-, Prior of Norwich 2004-
• Keith Ward (Linacre and Christ Church)
• William George Ward (Christ Church and Lincoln)
• H. Wheeler Robinson (Mansfield and Regent's Park)
• Vernon White (Oriel and Wycliffe Hall)
• Maurice Wiles (Christ Church)
• William of Alnwick
• William of Ware
• John Williams (Jesus)
• John Wyclif (Balliol)
• Robert Charles Zaehner (Christ Church)

Historians

• Harold Acton (Christ Church)
• Anne Applebaum (St Antony's)
• Timothy Garton Ash (Exeter and St Antony's)
• Richard J. C. Atkinson (Magdalen)
• Geoffrey Barraclough (All Souls)
• Max Beloff, Baron Beloff (Corpus Christi, Nuffield, All Souls, and St Antony's)
• Mary Bennett (Somerville and St Hilda's)
• Robert Blake, Baron Blake (Christ Church)
• Brian Bond (Worcester)
• Daniel J. Boorstin (Balliol)
• Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (Nuffield and Worcester)
• Archie Brown (St Antony's)
• Alan Bullock, Lord Bullock of Leafield (New College and St Catherine's)
• Colin Bundy (Merton, St Antony's, Kellogg, and Green)
• Montagu Burrows (All Souls)
• Muriel St. Clare Byrne (Somerville)
• Richard Carew (Christ Church)
• Humphrey Carpenter (Keble)
• Sir Raymond Carr (Christ Church, New College, All Souls and St Antony's)
• Allan Chapman (Wadham)
• George Clark (Balliol, All Souls, and Oriel)
• Alwyn Collinson
• Robert Conquest (Magdalen)
• Gordon A. Craig (Balliol)
• Mandell Creighton (Merton)
• Vincent Cronin (Trinity)
• Robert Darnton
• Catherine Glyn Davies (Somerville)
• Sir Rees Davies (All Souls)
• H. W. C. Davis (Balliol, All Souls, New Coll, Oriel) Ed DNB 1919-28, Prof History Manchester 1921-25, Oxford 1925-28
• R. H. C. Davis (Balliol and Merton) Prof of Medieval History Birmingham University 1970-84
• William Deakin (Christ Church)
• Christopher de Hamel Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, his book Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts won the Duff Cooper Prize for 2016 and the Wolfson History Prize for 2017
• Michael Duffy
• John Elliott (Oriel)
• Robert Ensor (Balliol and Corpus Christi)
• Richard J. Evans (Jesus and St Antony's) Regius Professor of Modern History and Chairman of the Faculty of History in the University of Cambridge
• Robert Evans (Oriel)
• Cyril Falls (All Souls)
• Keith Feiling (Balliol, Christ Church, and All Souls)
• Niall Ferguson (Magdalen)
• Charles Harding Firth (Balliol, Pembroke, and All Souls)
• Herbert Fisher (New College) Member of Parliament 1916-26
• Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Somerville)
• Eric Foner (Oriel)
• Amanda Foreman (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Lady Antonia Fraser (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Sir Lawrence Freedman (Nuffield)
• Edward Augustus Freeman (Trinity)
• James Anthony Froude (Oriel and Exeter)
• Thomas Gaisford (Christ Church)
• Henry de Beltgens Gibbins (Wadham)
• N. H. Gibbs (Magdalen, Merton, and All Souls)
• Robert Gildea
• Lawrence Goldman (St Peter's) Editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004-
• Rose Graham (Somerville)
• Bernard Green (St Benet's)
• Alice Greenwood (Somerville)
• John Habakkuk (All Souls and Jesus)
• Irfan Habib (New College)
• Keith Hancock (Balliol and All Souls)
• Clarence H. Haring (New)
• John Hattendorf (Pembroke and St Antony’s)
• Agnes Headlam-Morley (Somerville)
• Peter Heather (New College and Worcester)
• Peter Heylin (St John's)
• Christopher Hibbert (Oriel)
• Christopher Hill (Balliol)
• Carole Hillenbrand (Somerville)
• George Holmes (All Souls)
• Albert Hourani (Magdalen and St Antony's)
• Michael Howard (Christ Church, Oriel, and All Souls)
• Clay S. Jenkinson (University)
• Henry Kamen
• Roderick Kedward (St Antony's)
• Elspeth Kennedy (Somerville and St Hilda's)
• Paul Kennedy (St Antony's)
• Walid Khalidi
• Christoph M. Kimmich
• Alan Kreider (Regent's Park)
• John La Nauze
• John Landers (Hertford and All Souls)
• Paul Langford (Hertford and Lincoln)
• Frances Lannon (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Peter L'Estrange (Campion Hall)
• Barbara Levick (St Hugh's and St Hilda's)
• M. D. R. Leys (Somerville)
• Suzannah Lipscomb (Lincoln and Balliol)
• Colin Lucas (Lincoln)
• Roderick MacFarquhar (Keble) Member of Parliament 1974-79
• Piers Mackesy (Oriel, Christ Church, and Pembroke)
• Margaret MacMillan (St. Antony's)
• Julia de Lacy Mann (Somerville)
• Margaret Mann Phillips (Somerville)
• Robert K. Massie
• John Masterman (Worcester and Christ Church)
• Henry Mayr-Harting (Merton, St Peter's, and Christ Church)
• Mark Mazower
• Josef W. Meri (Wolfson)
• Henry Hart Milman (Brasenose) Dean of St Paul's 1849-68
• Leslie Mitchell (University)
• Mary Caroline Moorman (Somerville)
• W. L. Morton
• Avner Offer (Nuffield and All Souls)
• Charles Oman (New College and All Souls)
• Robert O'Neill (All Souls)
• Ilan Pappe (St Antony's)
• H. R. S. Pocock (Pembroke)
• Frederick York Powell (Christ Church and Oriel)
• Maurice Powicke (Balliol)
• Gerald Reitlinger (Christ Church)
• Jane Robinson (Somerville)
• N.A.M. Rodger (University)
• Emma Georgina Rothschild (Somerville)
• A. L. Rowse (Christ Church, Oriel, and All Souls)
• Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell (Merton)
• James R. Russell
• Dominic Sandbrook (Balliol)
• Frank Schulman
• Paul Slack (Exeter and Linacre)
• Frederick Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead (Christ Church)
• Goldwin Smith (Magdalen and University)
• R. W. Southern (All Souls)
• Hew Strachan (All Souls)
• William Stubbs (Christ Church, Trinity, and Oriel) bishop of Chester 1884-89, bishop of Oxford 1889-1901
• Ernest Swinton (All Souls)
• Oliver Taplin (Magdalen)
• R. H. Tawney (Balliol) president of the Workers Educational Association 1928–44
• A. J. P. Taylor (Oriel)
• Keith Thomas (Balliol, All Souls, St John's, and Corpus Christi)
• Martin Thomas
• Elizabeth Topham Kennan
• Arnold J. Toynbee (Balliol)
• Rick Trainor (Merton)
• Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (Christ Church)
• Ann Trindade (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Kenneth Turpin (Oriel)
• J. M. Wallace-Hadrill (All Souls)
• Veronica Wedgwood (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Christopher Wickham (All Souls)
• Spenser Wilkinson (All Souls)
• Kate Williams (Somerville)
• A. N. Wilson (New College and St Stephen's House)
• Mary Woodall (Somerville)
• Lucy Worsley (New College)

Classicists, Byzantinists and archaeologists

• J. L. Ackrill (St. John's)
• Michael Angold
• Polymnia Athanassiadi (Somerville)
• Charles Badham (Wadham)
• Richard Bentley (Wadham)
• John Boardman (Lincoln)
• William Borlase (Exeter)
• Glen Bowersock (Balliol) Professor of Classics and History Harvard University 1969-80, Professor of Ancient History Institute for Advanced Study 1980-2006
• Angus Bowie (Queen's)
• Maurice Bowra (New College and Wadham)
• Peter Brown (New College and All Soul's)
• P. A. Brunt (Oriel and Brasenose)
• William Camden (Magdalen, Christ Church, and the former Broadgates Hall)
• Averil Cameron (Somerville)
• Henry Chadwick (Christ Church)
• Dorothy Charlesworth (Somerville)
• Gillian Clark (Somerville)
• Alison E. Cooley (St. John's)
• Barbara Craig (Somerville)
• G. E. M. de Ste Croix (New College)
• A. M. Dale (Somerville)
• James Davidson
• Kenneth Dover (Balliol)
• Robinson Ellis (Balliol and Trinity)
• Elaine Fantham (Somerville)
• Jill Harries (Somerville)
• W. H. C. Frend (Keble)
• Helen Hughes-Brock (Somerville)
• Sarah C. Humphreys (Somerville)
• Edward Gibbon (Magdalen) Member of Parliament 1774-83
• Jasper Griffin (Balliol)
• Miriam T. Griffin (Somerville)
• Francis J. Haverfield
• Philip Hardie (Corpus Christi)
• Stephen Harrison (Balliol)
• Simon Hornblower (Oriel) Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History University College London
• Joan M. Hussey (St Hugh's)
• Benjamin Jowett (Balliol)
• Kathleen Kenyon (Somerville)
• Donna Carol Kurtz (Somerville)
• Francis Leddy (Exeter)
• Irene Lemos (Somerville)
• David Malcolm Lewis (Christ Church)
• Henry Liddell (Christ Church)
• Martin Litchfield West (St John's, University, and All Souls)
• William Walter Merry (Balliol)
• Fergus Millar (Brasenose)
• Teresa Morgan (Oriel)
• Gilbert Murray (Christ Church)
• John Julius Norwich (John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich)
• Dimitri Obolensky (formerly Prince Dmitriy Dmitrievich Obolensky) (Christ Church)
• William Mitchell Ramsay (St John's, Exeter, and Lincoln)
• Joyce Reynolds (Somerville)
• P.J. Rhodes (Wadham)
• Nicholas Richardson (Magdalen, Pembroke, Trinity, Merton, and Greyfriars)
• Christina Riggs (Somerville)
• Katherine Routledge (Somerville)
• Erich Segal (Wolfson)
• William Young Sellar (Balliol and Oriel)
• R. R. R. Smith (Lincoln)
• John Sparrow (New College and All Souls)
• William Archibald Spooner (New College)
• Simon Swain (Pembroke, Wolfson)
• Ronald Syme (Oriel, Trinity, Brasenose, and Wolfson)
• Margerie Venables Taylor (Somerville)
• Emily Vermeule (St Agnes)
• J.B. Ward-Perkins (New College)
• Katharine Woolley (Somerville)
• Maria Wyke (Somerville)

Modern languages

• Carmen Blacker (Somerville)
• Malcolm Bowie (All Souls)
• George Alfred Kolkhorst (Exeter)
• Joycelynne Loncke (Somerville)
• Malcolm Pasley (Trinity, The Queen's, and Magdalen)
• Rebecca Posner (Somerville)
• T. J. Reed (The Queen's)
• Graham Robb (Exeter)
• Mark Southern (Balliol)
• Enid Starkie (Somerville)
• Joan Turville-Petre (Somerville)
• Ghil'ad Zuckermann (St Hugh's)

Philosophers

• Theodor Adorno (Merton)
• Virgil Aldrich
• Archibald Alison (Balliol)
• Nayef Al-Rodhan (St Antony's)
• Pamela Sue Anderson (Mansfield and Regent's Park)
• G. E. M. Anscombe (St Hugh's)
• Robin Attfield (Christ Church and Regent's Park)
• J. L. Austin (Balliol)
• Anita Avramides (Somerville and St Hilda's)
• Alfred Ayer (Christ Church)
• Roger Bacon (Greyriars)
• Gordon Baker (The Queen's, St John's)
• Jeremy Bentham (The Queen's)
• Isaiah Berlin (Corpus Christi and All Souls)
• Roy Bhaskar (Balliol)
• Brand Blanshard
• Elisabeth Blochmann (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Susanne Bobzien (Somerville, Balliol, The Queen's, and All Souls)
• Thomas Browne (Pembroke)
• John Campbell (Christ Church)
• Quassim Cassam (Keble)
• David Chalmers (Lincoln)
• Gerald Cohen (All Souls)
• R. G. Collingwood (Magdalen)
• Alice Crary (Regent's Park)
• Gregory Currie (St John's)
• Brian Davies (Blackfriars)
• Edward de Bono (Christ Church)
• Daniel Dennett (Hertford)
• John Theophilus Desaguliers (Christ Church and Hart Hall)
• Michael Dummett (Christ Church and All Souls)
• Dorothy Edgington (St Hilda's)
• Gareth Evans (University)
• Antony Flew (St John's)
• Luciano Floridi (St Cross)
• Philippa Foot (Somerville)
• Peter Geach (Balliol)
• Celia Green (Somerville)
• Paul Grice (Corpus Christi)
• Robert Grosseteste (Greyfriars) Bishop of Lincoln 1235-53
• Þorsteinn Gylfason (Magdalen)
• Susan Haack
• Peter Hacker (The Queen's, St Antony's, Balliol, and St John's)
• Stuart Hampshire (Balliol)
• R. M. Hare (Balliol and Corpus Christi)
• Thomas Hobbes (Hertford)
• C. E. M. Joad (Balliol)
• Anthony Kenny (St Benet's, Balliol, St John's)
• Brian Klug (St Benet's)
• Martha Kneale (Somerville)
• Leszek Kołakowski (All Souls)
• Stephen Law (Trinity and The Queen's)
• David Lewis
• Genevieve Lloyd (Somerville)
• John Locke (Christ Church)
• John Lucas (Balliol, Merton)
• Henry Longueville Mansel (St John's and Magdalen) Dean of St Paul's 1868-71
• Colin McGinn (Jesus)
• Mary Midgely (Somerville)
• Michele Moody-Adams (Somerville)
• Max More (Max T. O'Connor) (St Anne's)
• Thomas Nagel (Corpus Christi)
• Kathleen Nott (Somerville)
• Sari Nusseibeh (Christ Church) President of Al-Quds University
• Hilda D. Oakeley (Somerville)
• Michael Oakeshott (Nuffield)
• William of Ockham (Merton)
• Onora O'Neill (Somerville)
• Derek Parfit (Balliol and All Souls)
• Christopher Peacocke (Exeter, The Queen's, All Souls, New College, and Magdalen)
• Alexander Piatigorsky
• Jonathan Rée
• Daniel N. Robinson
• W. D. Ross (Balliol and Oriel)
• Alan Ryan (Balliol and New College)
• Gilbert Ryle (Christ Church)
• Julian Savulescu (St Cross)
• John Duns Scotus
• John Rogers Searle (Christ Church)
• Peter Singer (University)
• Aaron Sloman (Balliol and St Antony's)
• Galen Strawson
• Peter Strawson (St John's, University, and Magdalen)
• Ralph Strode (Merton)
• Charles Taylor (Balliol and All Souls)
• Geoffrey Warnock (Hertford)
• Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock (Lady Margaret Hall and St Hugh's)
• Ronald Lampman Watts (Oriel) Principal of Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) 1974–84
• Kathy Wilkes (St Hilda's)
• Bernard Williams (Balliol and All Souls)
• Kwasi Wiredu (University)

Economists

• Abul Maal Abdul Muhith
• William Ashley (Balliol and Lincoln)
• Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh (Balliol)
• Marian Bell (Hertford)
• David Bensusan-Butt (Nuffield)
• William Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge (Balliol)
• Shahid Javed Burki (Christ Church)
• Frances Cairncross (St Anne's and Exeter)
• G. D. H. Cole (Balliol and University)
• Howard Davies (Merton) Director LSE, formerly Chmn FSA, Dep Gov Bank of England, DG CBI, Controller Audit Commn
• Andrew Dilnot (St John's)
• Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (Balliol)
• Amelia Fletcher
• Andrew Graham (Balliol)
• Roy Harrod (Christ Church)
• John Hicks (Balliol)
• Ursula Kathleen Hicks (Somerville)
• John A. Hobson (Lincoln)
• Harry Hodson (Balliol and All Souls)
• Mary Kaldor (Somerville)
• Lawrence Klein (Lincoln)
• Paul Krugman
• James Meade (Oriel)
• John Williams Mellor
• James Mirrlees (Nuffield)
• Gunnar Myrdal (Balliol)
• Stephen Nickell (Nuffield) Professor Economics LSE 1998-2006, Member Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee 2000-06
• Paul Ormerod (St Catherine's)
• Utsa Patnaik (Somerville)
• James Robertson (Balliol)
• Walt Whitman Rostow (Balliol)
• Ernst Schumacher
• Amartya Sen (Nuffield and All Souls)
• Adam Smith (Balliol)
• Alasdair Smith
• Robert Solow (Balliol)
• Michael Spence (Magdalen)
• Frances Stewart (Somerville)
• Joseph E. Stiglitz (All Souls and St Catherine's)
• Fabian Tassano (New College)
• Lester Thurow (Balliol)
• Barbara Ward (Somerville)
• Alison Wolf (Somerville)
• Stefano Zamagni

Geography

• Denis Cosgrove (St Catherine's)
• Andrew Goudie (Hertford and St Cross)
• Emily Georgiana Kemp (Somerville)
• Janelle Knox-Hayes (Green Templeton)
• Diana Liverman (Linacre)
• Halford John Mackinder (Christ Church) Director LSE 1903–08, Member of Parliament 1910–22
• Nick Middleton (St Anne's)

Anthropology and ethnography

• Madawi Al-Rasheed (Nuffield)
• Edwin Ardener (St. John's)
• Marius Barbeau (Oriel)
• Brenda Beck (Somerville)
• Beatrice Blackwood (Somerville)
• Maria Czaplicka (Somerville)
• John Davis (University and All Souls)
• Alex de Waal (Nuffield)
• E. E. Evans-Pritchard (Exeter and All Souls)
• Ernest Gellner (Balliol)
• Max Gluckman (Exeter)
• Stuart Hall (Merton)
• Earnest Hooton
• E. O. James (Exeter)
• Hugh Kawharu (Exeter)
• Robert Ranulph Marett (Exeter)
• James Cowles Prichard (St John's and Trinity)
• Vernon Reynolds (Magdalen)
• Katherine Routledge (Somerville)
• Walter Baldwin Spencer (Exeter and Lincoln)
• Colin Turnbull (Magdalen)
• Mai Yamani (Somerville)

Sociology

• Reem Bassiouney (Somerville)
• John Goldthorpe (Nuffield)
• Steven Lukes (Balliol, Nuffield, and Worcester)
• Gordon Marshall (Nuffield) V-C University of Reading, formerly Chief Exec Economic & Social Research Council
• Ted Nelson (Wadham)
• Ann Oakley (Somerville)
• Sheila Rowbotham (St Hilda's)
• Bryan Wilson (All Souls)

Politics, political philosophy, and international relations

• Nayef Al-Rodhan (St Antony's)
• Alyson Bailes (Somerville)
• Mark Bevir
• Christopher Brewin (St John's and Christ Church)
• James Burnham (Balliol)
• Alex Callinicos (Balliol)
• Gerald Cohen (All Souls)
• James Corry Principal of Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) 1961-68
• Deborah Coyne (Wadham) international relations and law, contributed to Meech Lake Accords
• David Dilks (Hertford, St Antony's, and All Souls) Vice Chancellor of the University of Hull 1991–99
• Samuel Finer (Trinity and Balliol)
• Rosemary Foot (St. Antony's)Professor of International Relations, and John Swire Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Univ
• Bruce Gilley
• Sir Lawrence Freedman
• Nikolas Gvosdev (St Antony's)
• Fred Halliday (The Queen's)
• Ted Hodgetts Principal Victoria College Toronto 1967–69, President Victoria University 1970–72
• Raghavan N. Iyer (Magdalen, Nuffield, and St Antony's)
• Robert Lieber (St Antony's) Professor, Department of Government and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
• Baisali Mohanty (Wolfson)
• Moses Morgan President of Memorial University of Newfoundland 1973–81
• Thomas Nossiter (Exeter and Nuffield) Professor of Government LSE 1989–94
• Joseph Nye (Exeter)
• Masako Owada (Balliol)
• Robert D. Putnam (Balliol)
• Michael Sandel (Balliol) Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University
• Emma Sky (Somerville)
• Anne-Marie Slaughter (Worcester) Dean Woodrow Wilson Sch of Public & International Affairs Princeton Univ
• Jeremy Waldron (All Souls)
• Helen Wallace, Baroness Wallace of Saltaire
• Graham Wallas (Corpus Christi)
• Shirley Williams (Somerville)
• Naomi Wolf (New College)

Asian studies

• Carmen Blacker (Somerville)
• Ian Buruma (St Antony's)
• David Hawkes (All Souls)
• James Legge (Corpus Christi)
• Jessica Rawson (Merton)
• William Edward Soothill
• Richard Carnac Temple
• Richard Olaf Winstedt (New College)

Mathematicians and statisticians

• John Macleod Ball
• Simon Bredon (Balliol and Merton)
• Lewis Carroll (Christ Church)
• Mary Cartwright (St Hugh's)
• Kathryn Chaloner (Somerville)
• Anne Cobbe (Somerville)
• Alison Etheridge
• Leslie Fox (Christ Church and Balliol)
• W.S. Gosset (New College)
• Brian Greene
• Edmund Gunter (Christ Church)
• G.H. Hardy (Savilian Chair of Geometry)
• Stephen Hawking (University)
• Peter Hilton (The Queen's) Professor Univ of Birmingham, Cornell Univ, Case Western Reserve Univ, Binghamton Univ, and Univ of Central Florida
• Nigel Hitchin (Jesus, Wolfson, and New College)
• Ioan James (The Queen's and New College)
• Frances Kirwan (Magdalen and Balliol)
• Ruth Lawrence (St Hugh's)
• John Lennox
• Holbrook Mann MacNeille (Balliol)
• Claus Moser, Baron Moser (Nuffield and Wadham)
• Kathleen Ollerenshaw (Somerville)
• Roger Penrose
• Marcus du Sautoy (All Souls and Wadham)
• Caroline Series (Somerville)
• Bernard Silverman (University and St Peter's)
• Henry John Stephen Smith (Balliol)
• G. Spencer-Brown (Christ Church)
• Martin J. Taylor (Pembroke) Professor Pure Mathematics UMIST 1986-2004, Manchester 2004-, Pres London Mathematical Soc 1998-2000, Vice-Pres Royal Soc 2004-
• Richard Taylor (New College)
• Mary Wynne Warner (Somerville)
• J.H.C. Whitehead (Balliol and Magdalen)
• Andrew Wiles (Merton)

Scientists

Naturalists, botanists, and zoologists

• Joseph Banks (Christ Church)
• Jonathan Borwein (Jesus)
• Sydney Brenner (Exeter)
• Anne Brewis (Somerville)
• Francis Trevelyan Buckland
• William Buckland (Christ Church)
• Neil Chalmers (Magdalen and Wadham)
• Ian Chubb
• Richard Dawkins (Balliol)
• John Bretland Farmer (Magdalen)
• E. B. Ford (Wadham)
• Jeremy Greenwood (St Catherine's)
• J. B. S. Haldane (New College)
• W. D. Hamilton (New College)
• Alister Hardy (Exeter, Merton, and Manchester)
• Ian Hepburn
• John Kidd (Christ Church)
• John Krebs (Pembroke and Jesus)
• Ray Lankester (Christ Church)
• Amory Lovins (Magdalen and Merton)
• Anne McLaren (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Gavin Maxwell (Hertford)
• Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (Merton)
• Peter Medawar (Magdalen)
• Desmond Morris (Magdalen)
• Robert Plot (Magdalen Hall)
• Edward Bagnall Poulton (Jesus)
• David Quammen (Merton)
• Matthew Ridley (Magdalen)
• Charles Sherrington (Magdalen)
• Richard Southwood (Merton)
• Nikolaas Tinbergen (Merton)
• Sunil Kumar Verma (Green)
• Kathy Willis (Merton)

Medicine

• Donald Acheson (Brasenose and University) Chief Medical Officer 1983–1991
• Henry Wentworth Acland (Christ Church and All Souls)
• Josephine Barnes (Lady Margaret Hall)
• George Wells Beadle (Balliol)
• Claude Bertrand
• Baruch Samuel Blumberg (Balliol)
• Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain
• Robert Burton (Brasenose)
• Sheila Cassidy (Somerville)
• Ernst Chain (University)
• Augusto Claudio Cuello Professor and Charles E. Frosst/Merck Chair in Pharmacology & Therapeutics, McGill University
• Richard Doll (Christ Church)
• John Carew Eccles (Magdalen)
• J. R. Evans President, University of Toronto, 1972–78, Director Population, Health, & Nutrition, World Bank, 1979–83
• William Feindel (Merton)
• Howard Florey (Lincoln, The Queen's, and Magdalen)
• John Freind (Christ Church)
• Archibald Garrod (Christ Church)
• Atul Gawande (Balliol)
• Ragnar Granit
• Roy Meadow (Worcester)
• Richard Morton (Magdalen Hall)
• David Naylor (Hertford) President, University of Toronto, 2005–
• Paul Nurse (Linacre)
• Severo Ochoa
• William Osler (Christ Church)
• Wilder Penfield
• Thomas Phaer sometime Member of Parliament for Cardigan
• Rodney Porter (Trinity)
• John Radcliffe (University)
• Oliver Sacks (The Queen's)
• Cicely Saunders (St Anne's)
• Charles Singer (Magdalen)
• Oliver Smithies (Balliol)
• Elsdon Storey
• Thomas Stuttaford (Brasenose) The Times medical expert, Member of Parliament, 1970–74
• Robert Twycross
• John Robert Vane (St Catherine's)
• Arthur Vidrine
• Diana Walford (Mansfield)
• Thomas Willis (Christ Church)

Psychologists, psychiatrists, and physiologists of the brain

• Simon Baron-Cohen (New College)
• Stephen J. Bergman (Samuel Shem) (Balliol)
• Wilfred Bion (The Queen's)
• Nick Bouras
• Chris Brand (The Queen's and Nuffield)
• Donald Broadbent (Wolfson)
• Fiona Caldicott (St Hilda's and Somerville)
• Gordon Claridge (Magdalen)
• Hervey M. Cleckley
• Adrian Furnham (Pembroke)
• Jeffrey Alan Gray (Magdalen)
• Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield (St Hilda's and Lincoln)
• Miles Hewstone (New College)
• Charles McCreery (New College and Magdalen)
• Edward Thomas Monro (Oriel)
• Henry Monro (Oriel)
• James Monro (Balliol)
• John Monro (St John's and University)
• Thomas Monro (Oriel)
• Shirley Pearce (St Anne's)
• Adrian Raine
• Edmund Rolls (Corpus Christi)
• Stuart Sutherland (Magdalen)
• Lawrence Weiskrantz (Magdalen)
• Simon Wessely (University)

Chemists

• Mary Archer, Baroness Archer of Weston-super-Mare (St Anne's)
• Peter Atkins (Lincoln)
• Anne Beloff-Chain
• Robert Boyle (University)
• Humphry Bowen (Magdalen)
• E. J. Bowen (Balliol)
• David Clary (St John's and Magdalen)
• John Cornforth (St Catherine's)
• Charles Daubeny (Magdalen)
• Roger Gaudry Rector, Université de Montréal, 1965–75
• Véronique Gouverneur
• Nicole Grobert
• Dalziel Hammick (Magdalen)
• Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (Balliol)
• Dorothy Hodgkin (Somerville)
• Frederick L. Hovde
• Abdus Suttar Khan (St. Catherine's)
• Jeremy Knowles (Balliol and Wadham)
• Michael Mingos (Keble and St Edmund Hall)
• Robert Mulliken (St John's)
• Linus Pauling (Balliol)
• Rex Richards (Lincoln, Exeter, and Merton)
• Robert Robinson (Magdalen)
• Francis Simon (Christ Church)
• James Smithson (Pembroke)
• Frederick Soddy (Merton)
• Alexander Todd (Oriel)
• John E. Walker (St Catherine's)
• Michael Stanley Whittingham
• Ahmed Zewail (St Catherine's)

Physicists and astronomers

Astronomers Royal

• Edmund Halley (The Queen's) 1720–42
• James Bradley (Balliol) 1742–62
• Nathaniel Bliss (Pembroke) 1762-64
• Martin Ryle (Christ Church) 1972–82

Other physicists and astronomers

• John D. Barrow
• Roger Cashmore (Balliol, University, Christ Church, Merton, and Brasenose)
• Albert Einstein (Christ Church)
• Brian Greene
• Stephen Hawking (University)
• Robert Hooke (Christ Church)
• Edwin Hubble (The Queen's)
• Leonard Huxley
• Willis Lamb
• Anthony Leggett
• Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (Christ Church)
• John Maddox (Christ Church)
• Brian G. Marsden (New College)
• Roger Penrose
• Stephen Quake (PhD 1994)
• Norman Ramsey (Balliol)
• Erwin Schrödinger (Magdalen)
• Dennis Sciama
• John Hasbrouck van Vleck (Balliol)
• Klaus von Klitzing
• John Clive Ward
• Denys Wilkinson (Christ Church)
• Richard Wilson (Christ Church)
• Stephen Wolfram (St John's)

Computers, electronics, and robotics

• Samson Abramsky (Wolfson)
• Tim Berners-Lee (The Queen's)
• Richard Bird (Lincoln)
• Jonathan Bowen (University)
• Edgar F. Codd (Exeter)
• David Gavaghan (New College)
• Joseph Goguen (St Anne's)
• Ralph Hartley
• C. A. R. Hoare (Merton)
• Cliff Jones
• Hermann Moisl
• Peter Mosses (Trinity and Wolfson)
• Peter Braam (Merton College and St Catherine's )
• Mike Reed (St Edmund Hall)
• Bill Roscoe (University)
• Martin Smith (St John's)
• Michael Spivey (Oriel)
• Joe Stoy (Balliol)
• Christopher Strachey
• David Turner
• Robert J. Van de Graaff
• Jim Woodcock (Kellogg)

Engineering and agriculture

• Roger Ainsworth (Jesus and St Catherine's)
• William Froude (Oriel)
• E. Peter Raynes (St Cross)
• Lionel Tarassenko (Keble and St John's)
• Jethro Tull (St John's)
• Kevin Warwick (Somerville)
• Martin Wood (Christ Church)
• Ben Britton (St Catherine's)

Geology

• William Joscelyn Arkell (New College)
• U. Aswathanarayana
• Donald Ferlys Wilson Baden-Powell (Oriel)
• Malcolm Brown (St Cross)
• Colin Campbell (Wadham)
• Keith Cox (The Queen's and Jesus)
• Moira Dunbar (St Anne's)
• Charles Lyell (Exeter)
• Hugh Edwin Strickland (Oriel)
• Lawrence Wager

Meteorology

• Joanna Haigh (Somerville)
• Patrick McTaggart-Cowan (Corpus Christi)

References

• Welsh Biography Online (The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion of London and National Library of Wales). Cited in references as: WBO.