This page serves as a central navigational point for lists of more than 2,350 members of the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

, divided into relevant groupings for ease of use. The vast majority were students at the university, although they did not necessarily take a degree

Academic degree

An academic degree is a position and title within a college or university that is usually awarded in recognition of the recipient having either satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study or having conducted a scholarly endeavour deemed worthy of his or her admission to the degree...

; others have held fellowships at one of the university’s colleges

Colleges of the University of Oxford

The University of Oxford comprises 38 Colleges and 6 Permanent Private Halls of religious foundation. Colleges and PPHs are autonomous self-governing corporations within the university, and all teaching staff and students studying for a degree of the university must belong to one of the colleges...

; many fall into both categories. This page does not include people whose only connection with the university consists in the award of an honorary degree

Honorary degree

An honorary degree or a degree honoris causa is an academic degree for which a university has waived the usual requirements, such as matriculation, residence, study, and the passing of examinations...

 or an honorary fellowship.

The list has been divided into categories indicating the field of activity in which people have become well known. Many of the university’s alumni/ae, or old members, as they are more traditionally known, have attained a level of distinction in more than one field. These appear only in the category with which it is felt they are most often associated, or in which they have been more recently involved. Hence Jeffrey Archer (Brasenose

Brasenose College, Oxford

Brasenose College, originally Brazen Nose College , is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. As of 2006, it has an estimated financial endowment of £98m...

), a novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

ist, is listed as a life peer

Life peer

In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles cannot be inherited. Nowadays life peerages, always of baronial rank, are created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and entitle the holders to seats in the House of Lords, presuming they meet qualifications such as...

; Imran Khan

Imran Khan

Imran Khan Niazi is a Pakistani politician and former Pakistani cricketer, playing international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics...

 (Keble

Keble College, Oxford

Keble College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its main buildings are on Parks Road, opposite the University Museum and the University Parks. The college is bordered to the north by Keble Road, to the south by Museum Road, and to the west by Blackhall...

), a former captain of the Pakistani cricket team

Pakistani cricket team

The Pakistan cricket team is the national cricket team of Pakistan. Pakistan, represented by the Pakistan Cricket Board , is a full member of the International Cricket Council, and thus participates in , and cricket matches....

, is listed as a Pakistani politician

Politics of Pakistan

Politics of Pakistan have taken place in the framework of a federal republic, where the system of government has at times been parliamentary, presidential, or semi-presidential. In the current parliamentary system, the President of Pakistan is the largely ceremonial head of state, the Prime...

. Some academic disciplines are more difficult to define than others. In particular, many theologians

Theology

Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...

, law

Law

Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...

yers, and sociologists

Sociology

Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

 work in areas that might be thought to be encompassed by philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

.

Oxonians (a term for members of the university derived from its Latin name, Academia Oxoniensis) have included two British kings

British monarchy

The monarchy of the United Kingdom is the constitutional monarchy of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories. The present monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, has reigned since 6 February 1952. She and her immediate family undertake various official, ceremonial and representational duties...

 and at least twelve monarch

Monarch

A monarch is the person who heads a monarchy. This is a form of government in which a state or polity is ruled or controlled by an individual who typically inherits the throne by birth and occasionally rules for life or until abdication...

s of ten other sovereign states

Sovereignty

Sovereignty is the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory. It can be found in a power to rule and make law that rests on a political fact for which no purely legal explanation can be provided...

, twenty-five British prime ministers

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the Head of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister and Cabinet are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Sovereign, to Parliament, to their political party and...

, and thirty-five presidents and prime ministers

Head of government

Head of government is the chief officer of the executive branch of a government, often presiding over a cabinet. In a parliamentary system, the head of government is often styled prime minister, chief minister, premier, etc...

 of nineteen other countries. There are currently eighteen Oxonians in Her Majesty's Government, including eight in the Cabinet

Cabinet of the United Kingdom

The Cabinet of the United Kingdom is the collective decision-making body of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, composed of the Prime Minister and some 22 Cabinet Ministers, the most senior of the government ministers....

. Thirteen members of the Shadow Cabinet, as well as Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a British journalist and Conservative Party politician, who has been the elected Mayor of London since 2008...

, the Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

 Mayor of London

Mayor of London

The Mayor of London is an elected politician who, along with the London Assembly of 25 members, is accountable for the strategic government of Greater London. Conservative Boris Johnson has held the position since 4 May 2008...

, were educated at Oxford.

The university lays claim to twelve saint

Saint

A saint is a holy person. In various religions, saints are people who are believed to have exceptional holiness.In Christian usage, "saint" refers to any believer who is "in Christ", and in whom Christ dwells, whether in heaven or in earth...

s, ten blesseds

Beatification

Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a dead person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name . Beatification is the third of the four steps in the canonization process...

, an antipope

Antipope

An antipope is a person who opposes a legitimately elected or sitting Pope and makes a significantly accepted competing claim to be the Pope, the Bishop of Rome and leader of the Roman Catholic Church. At times between the 3rd and mid-15th century, antipopes were typically those supported by a...

, eighteen cardinals

Cardinal (Catholicism)

A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...

, and eighty-nine archbishop

Archbishop

An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...

s (including thirty-two of Canterbury

Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...

 and twenty-two of York

Archbishop of York

The Archbishop of York is a high-ranking cleric in the Church of England, second only to the Archbishop of Canterbury. He is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of York and metropolitan of the Province of York, which covers the northern portion of England as well as the Isle of Man...

).

This list also includes twenty-five princes and princesses

Prince

Prince is a general term for a ruler, monarch or member of a monarch's or former monarch's family, and is a hereditary title in the nobility of some European states. The feminine equivalent is a princess...

 (among them the heirs apparent

Heir apparent

An heir apparent or heiress apparent is a person who is first in line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting, except by a change in the rules of succession....

 of Belgium, Brunei, and Japan

Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan

is the eldest son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, which makes him the heir apparent to the Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan.-Early life and education:...

), thirty-four dukes, nineteen marquesses, eighty-two earls and countesses, forty-six viscounts and viscountesses, and 188 barons and baronesses; 246 bishop

Bishop

A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

s (Anglican

Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a tradition within Christianity comprising churches with historical connections to the Church of England or similar beliefs, worship and church structures. The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the English...

 and Catholic

Roman Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...

); 291 Members of Parliament (excluding MPs who were subsequently peers), eleven Members of the European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament

A Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...

 (excluding MEPs also serving at Westminster), twelve Lord Chancellor

Lord Chancellor

The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor, is a senior and important functionary in the government of the United Kingdom. He is the second highest ranking of the Great Officers of State, ranking only after the Lord High Steward. The Lord Chancellor is appointed by the Sovereign...

s, nine Lord Chief Justices

Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales is the head of the judiciary and President of the Courts of England and Wales. Historically, he was the second-highest judge of the Courts of England and Wales, after the Lord Chancellor, but that changed as a result of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005,...

 and twenty-two law lords

Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, commonly known as Law Lords, were appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 to the House of Lords of the United Kingdom in order to exercise its judicial functions, which included acting as the highest court of appeal for most domestic matters...

; ten US Senators

United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

, ten US Representatives

United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

 (including a Speaker of the House

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, or Speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives...

), three state governors, and four associate justices of the US Supreme Court

Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all state and federal courts, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases...

; as well as six puisne justices

Puisne Justice

A Puisne Justice or Puisne Judge is the title for a regular member of a Court. This is distinguished from the head of the Court who is known as the Chief Justice or Chief Judge. The term is used almost exclusively in common law jurisdictions such as England, Australia, Kenya, Canada, Sri Lanka,...

 of the Supreme Court of Canada

Supreme Court of Canada

The Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court of Canada and is the final court of appeals in the Canadian justice system. The court grants permission to between 40 and 75 litigants each year to appeal decisions rendered by provincial, territorial and federal appellate courts, and its decisions...

 and a chief justice of the now defunct Federal Court of Canada

Federal Court of Canada

The Federal Court of Canada was a national court of Canada that heard some types of disputes arising under the central government's legislative jurisdiction...

.

The University of Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

 claims forty-seven Nobel Laureates and three Fields Medal

Fields Medal

The Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...

lists.

House of Lords and House of Commons

Members of the European Parliament

Members of the British Royal Household

British military, security, and police personnel

Foreign politicians, civil servants, diplomats, and military personnel

Non-government people in British public life

Non-government people in public life overseas

Lord Chancellors and Lord Chief Justices

Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (Law Lords)

Other judges and lawyers: United Kingdom

Christianity

Saints
Blessed
Pope
Cardinals
Archbishops of Canterbury
Archbishops of York
Other Archbishops, Presiding Bishops, and Metropolitans
Other Bishops
Clergy and other ministers
Theologians

Poets

Poets Laureate

• Samuel Daniel
  Samuel Daniel
  Samuel Daniel was an English poet and historian.-Early life:Daniel was born near Taunton in Somerset, the son of a music-master. He was the brother of lutenist and composer John Danyel. Their sister Rosa was Edmund Spenser's model for Rosalind in his The Shepherd's Calendar; she eventually married...
  
   (Magdalen Hall) Poet Laureate 1599-1619
• William Davenant
  William Davenant
  Sir William Davenant , also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright. Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre whose career spanned both the Caroline and Restoration eras and who was active both before and after the English Civil...
  
   (Lincoln) Poet Laureate 1637-1668
• Thomas Warton
  Thomas Warton
  Thomas Warton was an English literary historian, critic, and poet. From 1785 to 1790 he was the Poet Laureate of England...
  
   (Trinity) Poet Laureate 1785-90
• Henry James Pye
  Henry James Pye
  Henry James Pye was an English poet. Pye was Poet Laureate from 1790 until his death. He was the first poet laureate to receive a fixed salary of £27 instead of the historic tierce of Canary wine Henry James Pye (20 February 1745 – 11 August 1813) was an English poet. Pye was Poet Laureate...
  
   (Magdalen Hall) Poet Laureate 1790-1813
• Robert Southey
  Robert Southey
  Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843...
  
   (Balliol) Poet Laureate 1813-43
• Robert Bridges
  Robert Bridges
  Robert Seymour Bridges, OM, was a British poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930.-Personal and professional life:...
  
   (Corpus Christi) Poet Laureate 1913-30
• Cecil Day Lewis (Wadham) Poet Laureate 1967-72
• John Betjeman
  John Betjeman
  Sir John Betjeman, CBE was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".He was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture...
  
   (Magdalen) Poet Laureate 1972-84
• Andrew Motion
  Andrew Motion
  Sir Andrew Motion, FRSL is an English poet, novelist and biographer, who presided as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009.- Life and career :...
  
   (University) Poet Laureate 1999-
• William Morris
  William Morris
  William Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...
  
   (Exeter) declined Laureateship 1896
• Philip Larkin
  Philip Larkin
  Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL is widely regarded as one of the great English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century...
  
   (St John's and All Souls) declined Laureateship 1984
• John Betjeman
  John Betjeman
  Sir John Betjeman, CBE was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".He was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture...
  
   (Magdalen) Poet Laureate 1972-84

• John Abbot
  John Abbot (poet)
  John Abbot was an English Roman Catholic clergyman and poet. His birthplace is uncertain, but may have been London or Leicester. Abbott is believed to be the nephew both of George Abbot, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Robert Abbot, the bishop of Salisbury. Abbot was thus from a strongly...
  
   (Balliol)
• Drummond Allison
  Drummond Allison
  Drummond Allison was an English war poet of World War II.He was born in Caterham, Surrey, and educated at Bishop's Stortford College and at Queen's College, Oxford. After Sandhurst training, he became an intelligence officer in the East Surrey Regiment. He served in North Africa and Italy, where...
  
   (The Queen's)
• Edwin Arnold
  Edwin Arnold
  Sir Edwin Arnold CSI CIE was an English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work, The Light of Asia.-Biography:...
  
   (University)
• Matthew Arnold
  Matthew Arnold
  Matthew Arnold was a British poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator...
  
   (Balliol)
• W. H. Auden
  W. H. Auden
  Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...
  
   (Christ Church and Exeter)
• Owen Barfield
  Owen Barfield
  Owen Barfield was a British philosopher, author, poet, and critic.Barfield was born in London. He was educated at Highgate School and Wadham College, Oxford and in 1920 received a 1st class degree in English language and literature. After finishing his B. Litt., which became the book Poetic...
  
   (Wadham)
• Thomas Lovell Beddoes
  Thomas Lovell Beddoes
  Thomas Lovell Beddoes was an English poet, dramatist and physician.- Biography :Born in Clifton, Bristol, England, he was the son of Dr. Thomas Beddoes, a friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Anna, sister of Maria Edgeworth. He was educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Oxford...
  
   (Pembroke)
• Henry Charles Beeching
  Henry Charles Beeching
  Henry Charles Beeching was an English clergyman, author and poet. He was educated at the City of London School and at Balliol College, Oxford. He took holy orders in 1882, and began work in a Liverpool parish. He later became Dean of Norwich. He gave the Clark Lecture in 1900 on The history of...
  
   (Balliol)
• Hilaire Belloc
  Hilaire Belloc
  Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, satirist, man of letters and political activist...
  
   (Balliol)
• Laurence Binyon
  Laurence Binyon
  Robert Laurence Binyon was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services....
  
   (Trinity)
• John Francis Bloxam
  John Francis Bloxam
  John Francis Bloxam was an English Uranian author and churchman. Bloxam was an undergraduate at Exeter College, Oxford when his story, the Priest and the Acolyte, appeared in the sole issue of the Chameleon: a Bazaar of Dangerous and Smiling Chances, a periodical which he also served as editor....
  
   (Exeter)
• Edmund Blunden
  Edmund Blunden
  Edmund Charles Blunden, MC was an English poet, author and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was also a reviewer for English publications and an academic in Tokyo and later Hong Kong...
  
   (The Queen's)
• Edwin Emmanuel Bradford
  Edwin Emmanuel Bradford
  The Reverend Edwin Emmanuel Bradford was an English clergyman and Uranian poet and novelist. He attended Exeter College, Oxford, received his B.A. in 1884, and was awarded a D.D. He was vicar of Nordelph, Downham Market, Norfolk, from 1905 to 1944. Towards the beginning of his life Bradford was an...
  
   (Exeter)
• Thomas Edward Brown
  Thomas Edward Brown
  Thomas Edward Brown , commonly referred to as T.E. Brown was a Manx poet, scholar and theologian.Brown was born at Douglas, Isle of Man. His father, the Rev. Robert Brown, shared with the parish schoolmaster in tutoring the clever boy until, at the age of fifteen, he was entered at King William's...
  
   (Christ Church and Oriel)
• Alan Brownjohn
  Alan Brownjohn
  Alan Charles Brownjohn FRSL is an English poet and novelist.He was born in London and educated at Merton College, Oxford. He taught until 1979, when he became a full-time writer...
  
   (Merton)
• Charles Stuart Calverley
  Charles Stuart Calverley
  Charles Stuart Calverley was an English poet and wit. He was the literary father of what has been called "the university school of humour".-Early life:...
  
   (Balliol)
• Vahni Capildeo
  Vahni Capildeo
  Surya Vahni Priya Capildeo is a Trinidadian writer, and a member of the extended Capildeo family which has produced notable Trinidadian politicians and writers ....
  
    (Christ Church)
• Thomas Carew
  Thomas Carew
  Thomas Carew was an English poet, among the 'Cavalier' group of Caroline poets.-Biography:He was the son of Sir Matthew Carew, master in chancery, and his wife, Alice daughter of Sir John Rivers, Lord Mayor of the City of London and widow of Ingpen...
  
   (Merton)
• Sydney Carter
  Sydney Carter
  Sydney Bertram Carter was an English poet, songwriter, folk musician, born in Camden Town, London. He is best known for the song "Lord of the Dance" , set to the tune of the American Shaker song "Simple Gifts", and the song "The Crow on the Cradle", adapted from an old folk song...
  
   (Balliol)
• Arthur Hugh Clough
  Arthur Hugh Clough
  Arthur Hugh Clough was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale...
  
   (Balliol)
• Robert P. T. Coffin
  Robert P. T. Coffin
  Robert Peter Tristram Coffin was a writer, poet and professor at Wells College and Bowdoin College . He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1936.-Life:...
  
  
• Wendy Cope
  Wendy Cope
  Wendy Cope, OBE is an award-winning contemporary English poet. She read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She now lives in Ely with the poet Lachlan Mackinnon.-Biography:...
  
   (St Hilda's)
• Samuel Elsworth Cottam
  S. E. Cottam
  The Reverend Samuel Elsworth Cottam, M.A. was an English poet and priest.-Biography:Cottam was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he was a friend of Edwin Emmanuel Bradford....
  
   (Exeter)
• Kevin Crossley-Holland
  Kevin Crossley-Holland
  Kevin John William Crossley-Holland is an English translator, children's author and poet.-Life and career:Born in Mursley, north Buckinghamshire, Holland grew up in Whiteleaf, a small village in the Chilterns...
  
   (St Edmund Hall)
• John Davies
  John Davies (poet)
  Sir John Davies was an English poet and lawyer, who became attorney general in Ireland and formulated many of the legal principles that underpinned the British Empire.-Early life:...
  
   (The Queen's)
• Vinícius de Moraes (Marcus Vinicius da Cruz de Mello Moraes)
  Vinicius de Moraes
  Marcus Vinicius de Moraes , known as Vinicius de Moraes and nicknamed O Poetinho , was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Son of Lydia Cruz de Moraes and Clodoaldo Pereira da Silva Moraes, he was a seminal figure in contemporary Brazilian music...
  
  
• John Donne
  John Donne
  John Donne 31 March 1631), English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest, is now considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are notable for their strong and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs,...
  
   (Hertford) Member of Parliament 1601 and 1614, Dean of St Paul's 1621-31
• Lord Alfred Douglas (Magdalen)
• Ernest Dowson
  Ernest Dowson
  Ernest Christopher Dowson , born in Lee, London, was an English poet, novelist and writer of short stories, associated with the Decadent movement.- Biography :...
  
   (The Queen's)
• Edward Dyer
  Edward Dyer
  Sir Edward Dyer was an English courtier and poet.-Life:The son of Sir Thomas Dyer, Kt., he was born at Sharpham Park, Glastonbury, Somerset. He was educated, according to Anthony Wood, either at Balliol College, Oxford or at Broadgates Hall , and left after taking a degree...
  
   (Balliol or Broadgates Hall)
• T. S. Eliot
  T. S. Eliot
  Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...
  
   (Merton)
• U. A. Fanthorpe
  U. A. Fanthorpe
  Ursula Askham Fanthorpe, CBE, FRSL was an English poet. She published as UA Fanthorpe.-Early life:She was educated in Surrey and at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she received a first-class degree in English language and literature, and subsequently taught English at Cheltenham Ladies' College...
  
   (St Anne's)
• John Fuller
  John Fuller (poet)
  John Fuller is an English poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.Fuller was born in Ashford, Kent, England, the son of poet and Oxford Professor Roy Fuller, and educated at St Paul's School and New College, Oxford. He began teaching in 1962 at the State University of New...
  
   (New College and Magdalen)
• Sydney Goodsir Smith
  Sydney Goodsir Smith
  Sydney Goodsir Smith was a Scottish poet, artist, dramatist and novelist. He wrote poetry in literary Scots often referred to as Lallans, and was a major figure of the Scottish Renaissance....
  
   (Oriel)
• Richard Graves
  Richard Graves
  Richard Graves was an English minister, poet, and novelist.Born at Mickleton Manor, Mickleton, Gloucestershire, to Richard Graves, gentleman, and his wife, Elizabeth, Graves was a student at Abingdon School and Pembroke College, Oxford...
  
   (Pembroke)
• Robert Graves
  Robert Graves
  Robert von Ranke Graves 24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985 was an English poet, translator and novelist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works...
  
   (St John's)
• Julian Grenfell
  Julian Grenfell
  The Honourable Julian Henry Francis Grenfell DSO , was a British soldier and poet of World War I.-Early life:Julian Grenfell was born at 4 St James's Square, London, the eldest son of William Grenfell, later Baron Desborough, and Ethel Priscilla Fane, daughter of Julian Fane...
  
   (Balliol)
• Jane Griffiths
  Jane Griffiths (poet)
  -Career and writings:Griffiths was born in Exeter, England, and brought up in the Netherlands. She studied English at Oxford University, where she won the Newdigate prize for her poem "The House"...
  
  
• Stephen Hawes
  Stephen Hawes
  Stephen Hawes was a popular English poet during the Tudor period who is now little known. He was probably born in Suffolk owing to the commonness of the name in that area and, if his own statement of his age may be trusted, was born about 1474. It has been suggested that he was an illegitimate...
  
  
• Robert Stephen Hawker
  Robert Stephen Hawker
  Robert Stephen Hawker was an Anglican priest, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall and reputed eccentric. He is best known as the writer of The Song of the Western Men with its chorus line of And shall Trelawny die? / Here's twenty thousand Cornish men / will know the reason why!, which he published...
  
   (Pembroke)
• Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
  
   (Magdalen)
• John Heath-Stubbs
  John Heath-Stubbs
  John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs OBE was an English poet and translator, known for his verse influenced by classical myths, and the long Arthurian poem Artorius .- Biography :...
  
   (The Queen's)
• Geoffrey Hill
  Geoffrey Hill
  Geoffrey Hill is an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation...
  
   (Keble)
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous 20th-century fame established him among the leading Victorian poets...
  
   (Balliol)
• A. E. Housman
  A. E. Housman
  Alfred Edward Housman , usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900...
  
   (St John's)
• Elizabeth Jennings
  Elizabeth Jennings
  Elizabeth Jennings was an English poet.-Life and career:Jennings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire. When she was six, her family moved to Oxford, where she remained for the rest of her life. Couzyn, Jeni Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe, pp. 98-100. There she later attended St Anne's College...
  
   (St Anne's)
• Jenny Joseph
  Jenny Joseph
  -Life and career:She was born in Birmingham, and with a scholarship, studied English literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford .Her poems were first published when she was at university in the early 1950s...
  
   (St Hilda's)
• Sidney Keyes
  Sidney Keyes
  Sidney Arthur Kilworth Keyes was an English poet of World War II.- Early years :Keyes was born on 27 May 1922. He attended Tonbridge School for his secondary education and later, for his tertiary, the University of Oxford...
  
  
• Nicole Krauss
  Nicole Krauss
  Nicole Krauss is an American author best known for her novels Man Walks Into a Room , The History of Love and, most recently, Great House...
  
  
• Walter Savage Landor
  Walter Savage Landor
  Walter Savage Landor was an English writer and poet. His best known works were the prose Imaginary Conversations, and the poem Rose Aylmer, but the critical acclaim he received from contemporary poets and reviewers was not matched by public popularity...
  
   (Trinity)
• Eugene Lee-Hamilton
  Eugene Lee-Hamilton
  Eugene Lee-Hamilton was a late Victorian English poet. His work includes some notable sonnets in the style of Petrarch. He endowed a literary prize administered by Oriel College in Oxford University, where he was a student...
  
   (Oriel)
• Richard Lovelace
  Richard Lovelace
  Richard Lovelace was an English poet in the seventeenth century. He was a cavalier poet who fought on behalf of the king during the Civil war. His best known works are To Althea, from Prison, and To Lucasta, Going to the Warres....
  
   (Gloucester Hall)
• George MacBeth
  George MacBeth
  George Mann MacBeth was a Scottish poet and novelist. He was born in Shotts, Lanarkshire.When he was three, his family moved to Sheffield....
  
   (New College)
• Louis MacNeice
  Louis MacNeice
  Frederick Louis MacNeice CBE was an Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis; nicknamed "MacSpaunday" as a group — a name invented by Roy Campbell, in his Talking Bronco...
  
   (Merton)
• John Marston
  John Marston
  John Marston was an English poet, playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods...
  
   (Brasenose)
• Glyn Maxwell
  Glyn Maxwell
  Glyn Maxwell is a British poet.-Early life:Though his parents are Welsh, Maxwell was born and raised in Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire. He studied English at Worcester College, Oxford. He began an MLitt there, but in 1987 moved to America to study poetry and drama with Derek Walcott at...
  
   (Worcester)
• Dom Moraes
  Dom Moraes
  Dominic Francis Moraes , popularly known as Dom Moraes, was a Goan writer, poet and columnist. He published nearly 30 books.-Early life:...
  
   (Jesus)
• Arthur Nortje
  Arthur Nortje
  Arthur Nortje was a South African poet.He was born in Oudtshoorn, and went to school in Port Elizabeth, being taught by the acclaimed writer Dennis Brutus...
  
  
• Tom Paulin
  Tom Paulin
  Thomas Neilson Paulin is a Northern Irish poet and critic of film, music and literature. He lives in England, where he is the GM Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.- Life and work :...
  
   (Hertford and Lincoln)
• F. T. Prince
  F. T. Prince
  Frank Templeton Prince was a British poet and academic, known generally for his best-known poem Soldiers Bathing, written during the Second World War in 1942, which has been frequently included in anthologies....
  
   (Balliol)
• Craig Raine
  Craig Raine
  Craig Raine is an English poet and critic born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England. Along with Christopher Reid, he is the best-known exponent of Martian poetry.-Life:...
  
   (Exeter and New College)
• John Crowe Ransom
  John Crowe Ransom
  John Crowe Ransom was an American poet, essayist, magazine editor, and professor.-Life:...
  
   (Christ Church)
• Alan Ross
  Alan Ross
  Alan John Ross, , was a British poet, writer and editor. He was born in Calcutta, India, where he spent the first seven years of his life...
  
   (St John's)
• F. R. Scott
  F. R. Scott
  Francis Reginald Scott, CC commonly known as Frank Scott or F.R. Scott, was a Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert. He helped found the first Canadian social democratic party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and its successor, the New Democratic Party...
  
  
• E. J. Scovell
  E. J. Scovell
  Edith Joy Scovell was an English poet. She was born in Sheffield, and studied in Westmorland and at Somerville College, Oxford. She married the ecologist Charles Sutherland Elton in 1937. She also translated work of Giovanni Pascoli...
  
   (Somerville)
• Patrick Shaw-Stewart
  Patrick Shaw-Stewart
  Patrick Houston Shaw-Stewart was a brilliant Eton College and Oxford scholar of the Edwardian era who died on active service as a battalion commander in the Royal Naval Division during the First World War....
  
   (Balliol)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...
  
   (University)
• Philip Sidney
  Philip Sidney
  Sir Philip Sidney was an English poet, courtier and soldier, and is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan Age...
  
   (Christ Church)
• Charles Sorley
  Charles Sorley
  Charles Hamilton Sorley was a British poet of World War I.Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was the son of William Ritchie Sorley. He was educated, like Siegfried Sassoon, at Marlborough College...
  
   (University)
• Bernard Spencer
  Bernard Spencer
  Charles Bernard Spencer was an English poet, translator, and editor.He was born in Madras, India and educated at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At Marlborough he knew John Betjeman and Louis MacNeice; at Oxford Stephen Spender, and he also came across W. H. Auden. He...
  
   (Corpus Christi)
• Stephen Spender
  Stephen Spender
  Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work...
  
   (University)
• Pauline Stainer
  Pauline Stainer
  Pauline Stainer is an acclaimed English poet. She was born in the industrial district of Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. She later left the city to attend St Anne's College, Oxford, where she took a degree in English...
  
   (St Anne's)
• Jon Stallworthy
  Jon Stallworthy
  Jon Stallworthy FBA FRSL is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow and Acting President of Wolfson College, a poet, and literary critic....
  
   (Magdalen and Wolfson)
• Eric Stenbock
  Eric Stenbock
  Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock was a Baltic German poet and writer of macabre fantastic fiction.-Life:Stenbock was the count of Bogesund and the heir to an estate near Kolga in Estonia...
  
   (Balliol)
• Algernon Charles Swinburne
  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He invented the roundel form, wrote several novels, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
  
   (Balliol)
• Michael Symmons Roberts
  Michael Symmons Roberts
  Michael Symmons Roberts is a British poet. He has published five collections of poetry, all with Cape , and has won the Whitbread Poetry Award, as well as major prizes from the Arts Council and Society of Authors. He has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize twice, the Griffin International...
  
   (Regent's Park)
• John Addington Symonds
  John Addington Symonds
  John Addington Symonds was an English poet and literary critic. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of male love , which he believed could include pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships. He referred to it as l'amour de l'impossible...
  
   (Balliol and Magdalen)
• Edward Thomas
  Edward Thomas (poet)
  Philip Edward Thomas was an Anglo-Welsh writer of prose and poetry. He is commonly considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences. Already an accomplished writer, Thomas turned to poetry only in 1914...
  
   (Lincoln)
• Michael Thwaites
  Michael Thwaites
  Michael Rayner Thwaites, AO was an Australian academic, poet, intelligence officer, and activist for Moral Rearmament.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Thomas Traherne
  Thomas Traherne
  Thomas Traherne, MA was an English poet and religious writer. His style is often considered Metaphysical.-Life:...
  
   (Brasenose)
• Julian Turner
  Julian Turner
  Julian Turner is a British poet and mental health worker. Turner was born in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, then moved to Cheshire in 1955...
  
   (New College)
• John Wain
  John Wain
  John Barrington Wain was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group "The Movement". For most of his life, Wain worked as a freelance journalist and author, writing and reviewing for newspapers and the radio. He seems to have married in 1947, since C. S...
  
   (St John's)
• Robert Penn Warren
  Robert Penn Warren
  Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935...
  
   (New College)
• Samuel Wesley
  Samuel Wesley (poet)
  Samuel Wesley was a poet and a writer of controversial prose. He was also the father of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, founders of the Methodist Church.-Family and early life:...
  
   (Exeter)
• Henry Willobie
  Henry Willobie
  Henry Willobie is the supposed author of a 1594 poem called Willobie his Avisa , whose main claim to fame is a possible connection with William Shakespeare's personal life....
  
   (St John's and/or Exeter)
• John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
  John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
  John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester , styled Viscount Wilmot between 1652 and 1658, was an English Libertine poet, a friend of King Charles II, and the writer of much satirical and bawdy poetry. He was the toast of the Restoration court and a patron of the arts...
  
   (Wadham)
• Fabian Strachan Woodley
  Fabian S. Woodley
  Fabian Strachan Woodley, MC was a British poet of the Uranian school. He was born in Bristol and educated at Cheltenham College and University College, Oxford...
  
   (University)
• David Wright
  David Wright (poet)
  David John Murray Wright was an author and "an acclaimed South African-born poet".-Biography:Wright was born in Johannesburg, South Africa 23 February 1920 of normal hearing....
  
   (Oriel)
• Kit Wright
  Kit Wright
  Kit Wright is the author of more than twenty-five books, for both adults and children, and the winner of awards including an Arts Council Writers' Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award and the Heinemann Award...
  
  
• Thomas Yalden
  Thomas Yalden
  Thomas Yalden was an English poet and translator. Educated at Magdalen College, Yalden entered the Church, in which he obtained various preferments. His poems include A Hymn to Darkness, Pindaric Odes, and translations from the classics.-Early life and education:The sixth son of Mr. John Yalden...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Natan Yonatan
  Natan Yonatan
  Natan Yonatan was an Israeli poet.His poems have been translated from Hebrew and published in more than a dozen languages, among them: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Yiddish....
  
  
• Edward Young
  Edward Young
  Edward Young was an English poet, best remembered for Night Thoughts.-Early life:He was the son of Edward Young, later Dean of Salisbury, and was born at his father's rectory at Upham, near Winchester, where he was baptized on 3 July 1683. He was educated at Winchester College, and matriculated...
  
   (New College, Corpus Christi, and All Souls)

Novelists and story writers

• Diran Adebayo
  Diran Adebayo
  Diran Adebayo is a British novelist, cultural critic and broadcaster best known for his vivid portrayals of modern London life and his distinctive use of language.-Education and career:...
  
  
• Naomi Alderman
  Naomi Alderman
  Naomi Alderman is a British author and novelist.- Biography :Alderman was educated at South Hampstead High School and Lincoln College, Oxford where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She then went on to study creative writing at the University of East Anglia before becoming a novelist...
  
   (Lincoln)
• Monica Ali
  Monica Ali
  Monica Ali is a British writer of Bangladeshi origin. She is the author of Brick Lane, her debut novel, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2003...
  
   (Wadham)
• Kingsley Amis
  Kingsley Amis
  Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism...
  
   (St John's)
• Martin Amis
  Martin Amis
  Martin Louis Amis is a British novelist, the author of many novels including Money and London Fields . He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester, but will step down at the end of the 2010/11 academic year...
  
   (Exeter)
• Louise Bagshawe (St Anne's)
• Daniel Blythe
  Daniel Blythe
  Daniel Blythe is a British author, who was born in Maidstone in 1969 and studied Modern Languages at St John's College, Oxford. After several years writing stories for the small press, Blythe began his professional career writing for the Virgin New Adventures series of Doctor Who novels, and very...
  
   (St John's)
• William Boyd
  William Boyd (writer)
  William Boyd, CBE is a Scottish novelist and screenwriter.-Biography:Of Scottish descent, Boyd spent his early life in Ghana and Nigeria, in Africa...
  
   (Jesus)
• John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
  John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
  John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation....
  
   (Balliol) MP 1927-35, Governor General of Canada 1935–1940
• Mike Carey
• Hugo Charteris
  Hugo Charteris
  Hugo Francis Guy Charteris, MC was a Scottish novelist and screenwriter. Charteris wrote nine novels, seventeen television screenplays and numerous children's books and short stories.-Biography:...
  
  
• Amit Chaudhuri
  Amit Chaudhuri
  Amit Chaudhuri is an internationally recognised Indian English author and academic. He is currently Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.-Life:...
  
   (Balliol)
• Susanna Clarke
  Susanna Clarke
  Susanna Mary Clarke is a British author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell , a Hugo Award-winning alternate history. Clarke began Jonathan Strange in 1993 and worked on it during her spare time...
  
   (St Hilda's)
• Edmund Crispin (Bruce Montgomery)
  Edmund Crispin
  Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery , an English crime writer and composer.-Life and work:Montgomery was born in Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire...
  
   (St John's) also a noteworthy composer
• Guy Davenport
  Guy Davenport
  Guy Mattison Davenport was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher.-Life:...
  
   (Merton)
• Robertson Davies
  Robertson Davies
  William Robertson Davies, CC, OOnt, FRSC, FRSL was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is variously said to have gladly accepted for himself...
  
   (Balliol)
• Lindsey Davis
  Lindsey Davis
  Lindsey Davis is an English historical novelist, best known as the author of the Falco series of crime stories set in ancient Rome and its empire.-Biography:...
  
   (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Helen DeWitt
  Helen DeWitt
  Helen DeWitt is a novelist.DeWitt grew up primarily in South America , as her parents worked in the United States diplomatic service...
  
   (Lady Margaret Hall and Brasenose)
• Siobhan Dowd
  Siobhan Dowd
  Siobhan Dowd was a British writer and activist.-Biography:Siobhan Dowd was born in London to Irish parents...
  
   (Lady Margaret Hall)
• John Meade Falkner
  J. Meade Falkner
  John Meade Falkner was an English novelist and poet, best known for his 1898 novel, Moonfleet. An extremely successful businessman as well, he became chairman of the arms manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth during World War I.-Life and works:Falkner was born in Manningford Bruce, Wiltshire and spent...
  
   (Hertford)
• Helen Fielding
  Helen Fielding
  Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, a sequence of novels and films that chronicle the life of a thirtysomething single woman in London as she tries to make sense of life and love.Her novels Bridget Jones's...
  
   (St Anne's)
• Penelope Fitzgerald
  Penelope Fitzgerald
  Penelope Fitzgerald was a Booker Prize-winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In 2008, The Times included her in a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".-Early life:...
  
   (Somerville)
• Richard Flanagan
  Richard Flanagan
  Richard Flanagan is a novelist from Tasmania, Australia.-Early life:Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961, the fifth of six children. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s. His father is a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. One of his three...
  
  
• Margaret Forster
  Margaret Forster
  Margaret Forster is a British author. She was born in Carlisle, England, where she attended Carlisle and County High School for Girls , and then won an Open Scholarship to read modern history at Somerville College, Oxford, from where she graduated in 1960.After a short period as a teacher at...
  
   (Somerville)
• John Galsworthy
  John Galsworthy
  John Galsworthy OM was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter...
  
   (New College)
• Amitav Ghosh
  Amitav Ghosh
  Amitav Ghosh , is a Bengali Indian author best known for his work in the English language.-Life:Ghosh was born in Calcutta on July 11, 1956, to Lieutenant Colonel Shailendra Chandra Ghosh, a retired officer of the pre-independence Indian Army, and was educated at The Doon School; St...
  
   (Balliol)
• William Golding
  William Golding
  Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, best known for his novel Lord of the Flies...
  
   (Brasenose)
• Graham Greene
  Graham Greene
  Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH was an English author, playwright and literary critic. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world...
  
   (Balliol)
• Mark Haddon
  Mark Haddon
  Mark Haddon is an English novelist and poet, best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.- Life and work :...
  
   (Merton)
• Catherine Heath
  Catherine Heath
  Catherine Heath was a British novelist.Born Catherine Hirsch in Hendon, Middlesex, the daughter of Dutch immigrants, she was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she studied English under Helen Gardner. In 1948, she married Denis Heath; they were divorced in 1980...
  
   (St Hilda's)
• Joseph Heller
  Joseph Heller
  Joseph Heller was a US satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His best known work is Catch-22, a novel about US servicemen during World War II...
  
   (St Catherine's)
• Zoë Heller
  Zoë Heller
  Zoë Kate Hinde Heller is an English journalist and novelist.-Early life:Heller was born in North London as the youngest of four children of German-Jewish immigrant Lukas Heller, who was a successful screenwriter. Her mother was instrumental in keeping up the Labour Party's "Save London Transport...
  
   (St Anne's)
• Robert Henriques
  Robert Henriques
  Robert David Quixano Henriques was a British writer, broadcaster and farmer. He gained modest renown for two award-winning novels and two biographies of Jewish business tycoons, published during the middle part of the 20th century.-Life and career:Robert Henriques was born in 1905 to one of the...
  
   (New College)
• Peter Hobbs
  Peter Hobbs
  Peter Hobbs is a British novelist.He grew up in Cornwall and North Yorkshire and was educated at New College, Oxford. He began writing during a prolonged illness that cut short a potential diplomatic career....
  
   (New College)
• Alan Hollinghurst
  Alan Hollinghurst
  Alan Hollinghurst is a British novelist, and winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.-Biography:Hollinghurst was born on 26 May 1954 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, the only child of James Hollinghurst, a bank manager, and his wife, Elizabeth...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Winifred Holtby
  Winifred Holtby
  Winifred Holtby was an English novelist and journalist, best known for her novel South Riding.-Life and writings:...
  
   (Somerville)
• Thomas Hughes
  Thomas Hughes
  Thomas Hughes was an English lawyer and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's Schooldays , a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford .- Biography :Hughes was the second son of John Hughes, editor of...
  
   (Oriel)
• Aldous Huxley
  Aldous Huxley
  Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel...
  
   (Balliol)
• Hari Kunzru
• Perceval Landon
  Perceval Landon
  Perceval Landon was an English writer and journalist, now best remembered for his classic and much reprinted ghost story Thurnley Abbey.-Family:...
  
   (Hertford)
• John le Carré
  John le Carré
  David John Moore Cornwell , who writes under the name John le Carré, is an author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, Cornwell worked for MI5 and MI6, and began writing novels under the pseudonym "John le Carré"...
  
   (Lincoln)
• Harper Lee
  Harper Lee
  Nelle Harper Lee is an American author known for her 1960 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which deals with the issues of racism that were observed by the author as a child in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama...
  
  
• Peter Levi
  Peter Levi
  Peter Chad Tigar Levi, FSA, FRSL, , Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford was a poet, archaeologist, sometime Jesuit priest, travel writer, biographer, academic and prolific reviewer and critic.-Early life and education:Levi was born in Ruislip, Middlesex of parents with Mediterranean...
  
   (Campion Hall)
• Matthew Gregory Lewis
  Matthew Gregory Lewis
  Matthew Gregory Lewis was an English novelist and dramatist, often referred to as "Monk" Lewis, because of the success of his classic Gothic novel, The Monk.-Family:...
  
   (Christ Church)
• Toby Litt
  Toby Litt
  Toby Litt is an English writer, born in Bedford in 1968. He studied at Bedford Modern School, read English at Worcester College, Oxford and studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia where he was taught by Malcolm Bradbury....
  
   (Worcester)
• Rose Macaulay
  Rose Macaulay
  Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, DBE was an English writer. She published thirty-five books, mostly novels but also biographies and travel writing....
  
   (Somerville)
• Val McDermid
  Val McDermid
  Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels starring her most famous creation, Dr. Tony Hill.-Biography:...
  
   (St Hilda's)
• Charlotte Mendelson
  Charlotte Mendelson
  -Biography:Her maternal grandparents were, in her words, "Hungarian-speaking-Czech, Ruthenian for about 10 minutes, Carpathian mountain-y, impossible to describe", who left Prague in 1939.She was born in 1972 in west London, in a flat on the Queensway...
  
  
• Naomi Mitchison
  Naomi Mitchison
  Naomi May Margaret Mitchison, CBE was a Scottish novelist and poet. She was appointed CBE in 1981; she was also entitled to call herself Lady Mitchison, CBE since 5 October 1964 .- Childhood and family background :Naomi Margaret Haldane was...
  
   (St Anne's)
• Iris Murdoch
  Iris Murdoch
  Dame Iris Murdoch DBE was an Irish-born British author and philosopher, best known for her novels about political and social questions of good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious...
  
   (Somerville and St Anne's)
• Gregory Norminton
  Gregory Norminton
  Gregory Norminton is a novelist born in Berkshire, England, in 1976.Educated at Wellington College, he read English at Regent's Park College, Oxford and studied acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art...
  
   (Regent's Park)
• V. S. Naipaul
  V. S. Naipaul
  Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "V. S." Naipaul, TC is a Nobel prize-winning Indo-Trinidadian-British writer who is known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism...
  
   (University)
• Iain Pears
  Iain Pears
  Iain Pears is an English art historian, novelist and journalist. He was educated at Warwick School, Warwick, Wadham College and Wolfson College, Oxford. Before writing, he worked as a reporter for the BBC, Channel 4 and ZDF and correspondent for Reuters from 1982 to 1990 in Italy, France, UK and...
  
   (Wadham)
• Philip Pullman
  Philip Pullman
  Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials, and his fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ...
  
   (Exeter)
• Barbara Pym
  Barbara Pym
  Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was an English novelist. In 1977 her career was revived when two prominent writers, Lord David Cecil and Philip Larkin, nominated her as the most underrated writer of the century...
  
   (St Hilda's)
• Mary Renault
  Mary Renault
  Mary Renault born Eileen Mary Challans, was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in Ancient Greece...
  
   (St Hugh's)
• Abu Rushd Matinuddin
  Abu Rushd
  Abu Rushd Matinuddin, born December 25, 1919 in Kolkata, is a renowned modern Bangladeshi author, using the literary name of Abu Rushd.-Life:...
  
  
• Edward St Aubyn
  Edward St Aubyn
  Edward St Aubyn is a British author and journalist.-Early life:He attended Westminster School and Keble College, Oxford.-Work:...
  
   (Keble)
• Dorothy L. Sayers
  Dorothy L. Sayers
  Dorothy Leigh Sayers was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages...
  
   (Somerville)
• Will Self
  Will Self
  William Woodard "Will" Self is an English novelist and short story writer. His fictional style is known for being satirical, grotesque, and fantastical. He is a prolific commentator on contemporary British life, with regular appearances on Newsnight and Question Time...
  
   (Exeter)
• Vikram Seth
  Vikram Seth
  Vikram Seth is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist.-Early life:Vikram Seth was born on 20 June 1952 to Leila and Prem Seth in Calcutta...
  
   (Corpus Christi)
• Michael Innes
  J. I. M. Stewart
  John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well-known for the works of literary criticism and contemporary novels published under his real name and for the crime fiction published under the pseudonym of Michael Innes...
  
   (Oriel and Christ Church)
• Anna Stothard
  Anna Stothard
  - Writing History :Her first novel, Isabel and Rocco, , was published when she was 19. "Dazzling... remarkably accomplished," wrote The Observer. She has written for a number of newspapers, including columns for The Observer and The Sunday Telegraph.She read English at Lincoln College, Oxford...
  
   (Lincoln)
• Plum Sykes
  Plum Sykes
  Victoria "Plum" Sykes is an English-born fashion-writer, novelist and New York socialite. "Plum" was a childhood nickname .- Early years and antecedents :...
  
   (Worcester)
• Rachel Trickett
  Rachel Trickett
  Rachel Trickett was an English novelist, non‑fiction writer, literary scholar, and a prominent British academic; she served as Principal of St Hugh’s College, Oxford for nearly twenty years, between 1973 and 1991....
  
   (St Hugh's and Lady Margaret Hall)
• Joanna Trollope
  Joanna Trollope
  Joanna Trollope OBE , is an English novelist.-Life:Joanna Trollope was educated at Reigate County School for Girls followed by St Hugh's College, Oxford. From 1965 to 1967, she worked at the Foreign Office...
  
   (St Hugh's)
• Philip Turner
  Philip Turner
  Philip William Turner is an English author best known for his children's books about the fictional town of Darnley Mills and about the Reverend Septimus Treloar.-Life:...
  
   (Worcester)
• Jill Paton Walsh
  Jill Paton Walsh
  Jill Paton Walsh, CBE, FRSL is an English novelist and children's writer.Born as Gillian Bliss and educated at St. Michael's Convent, North Finchley, London, she read English Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford...
  
   (St Anne's)
• Rex Warner
  Rex Warner
  Rex Warner was an English classicist, writer and translator. He is now probably best remembered for The Aerodrome , an allegorical novel whose young hero is faced with the disintegration of his certainties about his loved ones and with a choice between the earthy, animalistic life of his home...
  
   (Wadham)
• Auberon Waugh
  Auberon Waugh
  Auberon Alexander Waugh was a British author and journalist, son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh. He was known to his family and friends as Bron Waugh.-Life and career:...
  
   (Christ Church)
• Evelyn Waugh
  Evelyn Waugh
  Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh , known as Evelyn Waugh, was an English writer of novels, travel books and biographies. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer...
  
   (Hertford)
• Angus Wilson
  Angus Wilson
  Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson, CBE was an English novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and later received a knighthood for his services to literature.-Biography:Wilson was born in Bexhill, Sussex, England, to...
  
   (Merton)
• Jeanette Winterson
  Jeanette Winterson
  Jeanette Winterson OBE is a British novelist.-Early years:Winterson was born in Manchester and adopted on 21 January 1960. She was raised in Accrington, Lancashire, by Constance and John William Winterson...
  
   (St Catherine's)
• P. C. Wren
  P. C. Wren
  Percival Christopher Wren was a British writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, and its main sequels, Beau Sabreur and Beau Ideal Percival Christopher Wren (1 November 187522...
  
   (St Catherine's)

Dramatists

• Achmed Abdullah (Alexandr Nicholaievich Romanov)
  Achmed Abdullah
  Achmed Abdullah , a pseudonym of Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff, was a Russian-born writer. He is most noted for his pulp stories of crime, mystery and adventure. He wrote screenplays for some successful films. He was the author of the progressive Siamese drama Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness,...
  
  
• Francis Beaumont
  Francis Beaumont
  Francis Beaumont was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher....
  
   (Broadgates Hall)
• Alan Bennett
  Alan Bennett
  Alan Bennett is a British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. Born in Leeds, he attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research mediaeval history at the university for several years...
  
   (Exeter)
• Thomas Chaundler
  Thomas Chaundler
  Thomas Chaundler was an English playwright and illustrator.A manuscript at Trinity College, Cambridge depicts Chaundler presenting one of his plays to the Bishop of Bath, Thomas Beckynton, in 1460....
  
  
• Caryl Churchill
  Caryl Churchill
  Caryl Churchill is an English dramatist known for her use of non-naturalistic techniques and feminist themes, the abuses of power, and sexual politics. She is acknowledged as a major playwright in the English language and a leading female writer...
  
   (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Richard Curtis
  Richard Curtis
  Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, CBE is a New Zealand-born British screenwriter, music producer, actor and film director, known primarily for romantic comedy films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones's Diary, Notting Hill, Love Actually and The Girl in the Café, as well as the hit...
  
   (Christ Church)
• Russell T Davies (Worcester)
• William Douglas-Home
  William Douglas-Home
  William Douglas Home was court-martialled in World War II for his refusal to obey orders as a British army officer and later became a successful British dramatist.-Early life:...
  
   (New College)
• Samuel Foote
  Samuel Foote
  Samuel Foote was a British dramatist, actor and theatre manager from Cornwall.-Early life:Born into a well-to-do family, Foote was baptized in Truro, Cornwall on 27 January 1720. His father, John Foote, held several public positions, including mayor of Truro, Member of Parliament representing...
  
   (Worcester)
• John Ford
  John Ford (dramatist)
  John Ford was an English Jacobean and Caroline playwright and poet born in Ilsington in Devon in 1586.-Life and work:...
  
   (Exeter)
• Christopher Hampton
  Christopher Hampton
  Christopher James Hampton CBE, FRSL is a British playwright, screen writer and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and the film version Dangerous Liaisons and also more recently for writing the nominated screenplay for the film adaptation of...
  
   (New College)
• Richard Hughes
  Richard Hughes (writer)
  Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.He was born in Weybridge, Surrey. His father was a civil servant Arthur Hughes, and his mother Louisa Grace Warren who had been brought up in Jamaica...
  
   (Oriel)
• Girish Karnad
  Girish Karnad
  Girish Raghunath Karnad is a contemporary writer, playwright, screenwriter, actor and movie director in Kannada language...
  
   (Lincoln and Magdalen)
• Thomas Lodge
  Thomas Lodge
  Thomas Lodge was an English dramatist and writer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.-Early life and education:...
  
   (Trinity)
• Patrick Marber
  Patrick Marber
  Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an English comedian, playwright, director, puppeteer, actor and screenwriter.-Early life and education:...
  
   (Wadham)
• Herman Charles Merivale
  Herman Charles Merivale
  Herman Charles Merivale MA was an English dramatist and poet, son of Herman Merivale. He also used the punning pseudonym Felix Dale....
  
   (Balliol)
• Thomas Middleton
  Thomas Middleton
  Thomas Middleton was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period. He was one of the few Renaissance dramatists to achieve equal success in...
  
   (The Queen's)
• John Mortimer
  John Mortimer
  Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE, QC was a British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author.-Early life:...
  
   (Brasenose)
• Thomas Nabbes
  Thomas Nabbes
  Thomas Nabbes was an English dramatist.He was born in humble circumstances in Worcestershire, and educated at Exeter College, Oxford in 1621...
  
   (Exeter)
• Thomas Otway
  Thomas Otway
  Thomas Otway was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd .-Life:...
  
   (Christ Church)
• George Peele
  George Peele
  George Peele , was an English dramatist.-Life:Peele was christened on 25 July 1556. His father, who appears to have belonged to a Devonshire family, was clerk of Christ's Hospital, and wrote two treatises on bookkeeping...
  
   (Broadgates Hall and Christ Church)
• Dennis Potter
  Dennis Potter
  Dennis Christopher George Potter was an English dramatist, best known for The Singing Detective. His widely acclaimed television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. He was particularly fond of using themes and images from popular culture.-Biography:Dennis Potter was born...
  
   (New College)
• Terence Rattigan
  Terence Rattigan
  Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan CBE was one of England's most popular 20th-century dramatists. His plays are generally set in an upper-middle-class background...
  
   (Trinity)
• James Roose-Evans
  James Roose-Evans
  James Roose-Evans is a British theatre director, script-writer, priest and writer on experimental theatre, gesture, ritual and meditation. In 1959 he founded the Hampstead Theatre Club, in London; and in 1974 the Bleddfa Centre for creativity and spirituality, in Powys.-Biography:James...
  
  
• William Scoular
  William Scoular
  William Scoular is a stage director, writer and filmmaker.He was born in Glasgow, Scotland and is a graduate of Oxford University where he read English at Lincoln College. He first attracted attention for his assured direction of a professional production of The Importance of Being Earnest at the...
  
   (Lincoln)
• Charles Sedley
  Charles Sedley
  Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet was an English wit, dramatist and politician, ending his career as Speaker of the House of Commons.-Life:...
  
   (Wadham)
• R. C. Sherriff
  R. C. Sherriff
  -External links:**...
  
   (New College)
• James Shirley
  James Shirley
  James Shirley was an English dramatist.He belonged to the great period of English dramatic literature, but, in Lamb's words, he "claims a place among the worthies of this period, not so much for any transcendent genius in himself, as that he was the last of a great race, all of whom spoke nearly...
  
   (St John's)
• James Townley
  James Townley
  Rev. James Townley was an English dramatist and anonymous playwright, the second son of Charles Townley, a merchant.-Early and Personal life:...
  
   (St John's)
• Nicholas Udall
  Nicholas Udall
  Nicholas Udall was an English playwright, cleric, pederast and schoolmaster, the author of Ralph Roister Doister, generally regarded as the first comedy written in the English language.-Biography:...
  
   (Corpus Christi)
• Oscar Wilde
  Oscar Wilde
  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Peter Wildeblood
  Peter Wildeblood
  Peter Wildeblood was a British-Canadian journalist, novelist, playwright, and gay rights campaigner. He was one of the first men in the UK to publicly declare his homosexuality.-Career:...
  
   (Trinity)
• Emlyn Williams
  Emlyn Williams
  George Emlyn Williams, CBE , known as Emlyn Williams, was a Welsh dramatist and actor.-Biography:He was born into a Welsh-speaking, working class family in Mostyn, Flintshire....
  
   (Christ Church)
• William Wycherley
  William Wycherley
  William Wycherley was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.-Biography:...
  
   (The Queen's)

Children's writers

• Richard Adams (Worcester) author of Watership Down
• Giles Andreae
  Giles Andreae
  Giles Andreae is a British poet, creator of the personae "Purple Ronnie" and "Edward Monkton". He is an artist and greeting card writer.-Life:...
  
   creator of Purple Ronnie and Edward Monkton
• W. V. Awdrey
  W.V. Awdry
  Wilbert Vere Awdry, OBE , was an English clergyman, railway enthusiast and children's author, better known as the Reverend W. Awdry and creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, who starred in Awdry's acclaimed Railway Series.-Life:Awdry was born at Ampfield vicarage near Romsey, Hampshire in 1911...
  
   (St Peter's and Wycliffe Hall) creator of Thomas the Tank Engine
• T. A. Barron
  T. A. Barron
  Thomas Archibald Barron is an American writer of fantasy literature, books for children and young adults, and nature books.-Biography:...
  
  
• Nina Bawden
  Nina Bawden
  Nina Bawden CBE is a popular British novelist and children's writer. Her mother was a teacher and her father a marine.-Life:...
  
   (Somerville)
• Lesley M. M. Blume
  Lesley M. M. Blume
  Lesley M. M. Blume is an author, journalist,, columnist, and cultural observer based in New York City. She did her undergraduate work at Williams College and [Oxford college], and took her graduate degree in history from Cambridge University, where she was a Herchel Smith fellow.Blume has authored...
  
  
• Lewis Carroll
  Lewis Carroll
  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
  
   (Christ Church)
• Thomas Day
  Thomas Day
  Thomas Day was a British author and abolitionist. He was well-known for the children's book The History of Sandford and Merton which emphasized Rousseauvian educational ideals.-Life and works:...
  
   (Corpus Christi)
• Ruby Ferguson
  Ruby Ferguson
  Ruby Ferguson, 1899-1966, née Rubie Constance Ashby, was a British writer of popular fiction, including children's books, romances, and mysteries. She is best known today for her "Jill" books, a series of Pullein-Thompsonesque pony books for children and young adults.-Life and career:Ferguson was...
  
   (St Hilda's)
• Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr Seuss)
  Dr. Seuss
  Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone....
  
   (Lincoln)
• Roger Lancelyn Green (Merton) also a biographer and librarian
• Penelope Lively
  Penelope Lively
  Penelope Lively CBE, FRSL is a prolific, popular and critically acclaimed author of fiction for both children and adults. She has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize, winning once for Moon Tiger in 1987.-Personal:...
  
   (St Anne's)
• Lady Flora McDonnell
  Lady Flora McDonnell
  Lady Flora Mary McDonnell , also known by her married name Flora Pennybacker, is an artist, illustrator, and prize-winning author of children's books.-Family:...
  
   (Exeter)
• Michelle Paver
  Michelle Paver
  Michelle Paver is a British-based novelist and children's writer, author of the six-book series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, set in the pre-agricultural Stone Age.- Biography :...
  
   (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Michael Rosen
  Michael Rosen
  Michael Wayne Rosen is a broadcaster, children's novelist and poet and the author of 140 books. He was appointed as the fifth Children's Laureate in June 2007, succeeding Jacqueline Wilson, and held this honour until 2009....
  
   (Wadham)
• Francesca Simon
  Francesca Simon
  Francesca Isabelle Simon is an American author living in London, who is mostly known for writing the popular Horrid Henry series of children's books.- Biography :...
  
   creator of Horrid Henry
• Frederick Weatherly
  Frederick Weatherly
  Frederic Edward Weatherly was an English lawyer, author, lyricist and broadcaster. He is estimated to have written the lyrics to at least 3,000 popular songs, among the best-known of which are the sentimental ballad Danny Boy set to the tune Londonderry Air, the religious "The Holy City", and the...
  
   (Brasenose) also King's Counsel, poet, sci-fi and fantasy writer
• Diana Wynne Jones
  Diana Wynne Jones
  Diana Wynne Jones was a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction...
  
   (St Anne's)

Scholars, critics, diarists, publishers, librarians

• Joseph Addison
  Joseph Addison
  Joseph Addison was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was a man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison...
  
   (The Queen's and Magdalen)
• Jean Aitchison
  Jean Aitchison
  Jean Aitchison is a Professor of Language and Communication in the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford....
  
   (Worcester)
• Peter Bayley (University)
• John Bayley (St Catherine's)
• Max Beerbohm
  Max Beerbohm
  Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist best known today for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson.-Early life:...
  
   (Merton)
• Homi K. Bhabha
  Homi K. Bhabha
  Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language, and the Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University. He is one of the most important figures in contemporary post-colonial studies, and has coined a number of the field's neologisms and...
  
  
• James H. Billington
  James H. Billington
  Lord LeBron James Hadley Billington is an American academic. He is the thirteenth Librarian of the United States Congress.-Early years:...
  
   (Balliol)
• Andrew Cecil Bradley
  Andrew Cecil Bradley
  Andrew Cecil Bradley was an English literary scholar, best remembered for his work on Shakespeare.-Life:...
  
   (Balliol)
• Melvyn Bragg
  Melvyn Bragg
  Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg FRSL FRTS FBA, FRS FRSA is an English broadcaster and author best known for his work with the BBC and for presenting the The South Bank Show...
  
   (Wadham)
• Jacky Bratton
  Jay Taverner
  Jay Taverner is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of Jacky Bratton and Jane Traies. The pair were a long-established lesbian partnership who met as undergraduates at St Anne's College, Oxford in 1963....
  
   (St Anne's)
• Katharine Mary Briggs
  Katharine Mary Briggs
  Katharine Mary Briggs was an English writer, who wrote The Anatomy of Puck, the 4-volume Dictionary of British Folk-Tales, and various other books on fairies and folklore.-Biography:...
  
   (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Vera Brittain
  Vera Brittain
  Vera Mary Brittain was a British writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.-Life:Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Brittain was the...
  
   (Somerville)
• Cleanth Brooks
  Cleanth Brooks
  Cleanth Brooks was an influential American literary critic and professor. He is best known for his contributions to New Criticism in the mid-twentieth century and for revolutionizing the teaching of poetry in American higher education...
  
   (Exeter)
• Robert Burchfield
  Robert Burchfield
  Robert William Burchfield CNZM CBE was a scholar, writer, and lexicographer.Born in Wanganui, New Zealand, he studied at Wanganui Technical College and Victoria University in Wellington...
  
   (Magdalen and Christ Church)
• Sir Raymond Carr
  Raymond Carr
  Sir Albert Raymond Maillard Carr FBA FRHS FRSL , known as Raymond Carr, is an English historian specializing in the history of Spain, Latin America, and Sweden who was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, from 1968 to 1987....
  
   (Christ Church, New College, All Souls and St Antony's)
• Alasdair Clayre
  Alasdair Clayre
  Alasdair George S. Clayre was a British man of many talents: author, broadcaster, singer-songwriter, and academic. He was educated at Oxford University and was a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Clayre took his own life in 1984 by jumping in front of a train.Clayre was born in...
  
   (All Souls)
• Peter Conrad
  Peter Conrad (academic)
  Peter Conrad is an Australian-born academic specializing in English literature, currently teaching at Christ Church at Oxford University....
  
   (Christ Church and All Souls)
• Janet E. Courtney
  Janet E. Courtney
  Janet Elizabeth Courtney was a scholar, writer and feminist.-Early life:...
  
   (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Jonathan Culler
  Jonathan Culler
  Jonathan Culler is a class of 1966 Harvard graduate and Professor of English at Cornell University. He is an important figure of the structuralism movement of literary theory and criticism.- Background and career:...
  
  
• Thomas de Quincey
  Thomas de Quincey
  Thomas Penson de Quincey was an English esssayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater .-Child and student:...
  
   (Brasenose)
• Susie Dent
  Susie Dent
  Susie Dent is an English lexicographer, well known as the resident dictionary expert and adjudicator on Channel 4’s long-running game show Countdown. As of January 2009, she is the longest-serving member of the current on-screen team, having first appeared on the show in 1992.Dent was educated at...
  
  
• Terry Eagleton
  Terry Eagleton
  Terence Francis Eagleton FBA is a British literary theorist and critic, who is regarded as one of Britain's most influential living literary critics...
  
   (Wadham, Linacre, and St Catherine's)
• Richard Ellmann
  Richard Ellmann
  Richard David Ellmann was a prominent American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats...
  
   (New College)
• Paul Engle
  Paul Engle
  Paul Engle , noted American poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwright. He is perhaps best remembered as the long-time director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and as founder of the International Writing Program , both at the University of Iowa.-Life:Engle is often mistakenly...
  
  
• Geoffrey Faber
  Geoffrey Faber
  Sir Geoffrey Cust Faber was a British academic, publisher and poet.Geoffrey Cust Faber was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford...
  
   (Christ Church)
• James Fenton
  James Fenton
  James Martin Fenton is an English poet, journalist and literary critic. He is a former Oxford Professor of Poetry.-Life and career:...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Henry Watson Fowler
  Henry Watson Fowler
  Henry Watson Fowler was an English schoolmaster, lexicographer and commentator on the usage of the English language...
  
   (Balliol)
• Adam Fox
  Adam Fox
  Adam Fox , Canon, was the Dean of Divinity at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was one of the first members of the "Inklings", a literary group which also included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Between 1938 and 1942 he was Professor of Poetry. Later he became Canon of Westminster Abbey and he is...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Leela Gandhi
  Leela Gandhi
  Leela Gandhi is Professor of English at The University of Chicago and a noted academic in the field of postcolonial theory. She is the co-editor of the academic journal Postcolonial Studies, the author of the summary text Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction and she serves on the editorial...
  
  
• William Gifford
  William Gifford
  William Gifford was an English critic, editor and poet, famous as a satirist and controversialist.-Life:Gifford was born in Ashburton, Devonshire to Edward Gifford and Elizabeth Cain. His father, a glazier and house painter, had run away as a youth with vagabond Bampfylde Moore Carew, and he...
  
   (Exeter)
• Victor Gollancz
  Victor Gollancz
  Sir Victor Gollancz was a British publisher, socialist, and humanitarian.-Early life:Born in Maida Vale, London, he was the son of a wholesale jeweller and nephew of Rabbi Professor Sir Hermann Gollancz and Professor Sir Israel Gollancz; after being educated at St Paul's School, London and taking...
  
   (New College)
• George Stuart Gordon
  George Stuart Gordon
  George Stuart Gordon was a British literary scholar.Gordon was educated at Glasgow University, Oriel College, Oxford ....
  
   (Oriel and Magdalen)
• John Haffenden
  John Haffenden
  Professor John Haffenden is an academic in the field of Literature at the University of Sheffield.-Education and positions held:He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin , where he edited Icarus, and Oxford University . He has spent periods as a Fellow of the Yaddo Foundation, New York; as a...
  
   (St John's and Magdalen)
• Ian Hamilton
  Ian Hamilton (critic)
  Robert Ian Hamilton was a British literary critic, reviewer, biographer, poet, magazine editor and publisher....
  
   (Keble)
• Richard Hakluyt
  Richard Hakluyt
  Richard Hakluyt was an English writer. He is principally remembered for his efforts in promoting and supporting the settlement of North America by the English through his works, notably Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America and The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and...
  
   (Christ Church)
• George Birkbeck Norman Hill
  George Birkbeck Norman Hill
  George Birkbeck Norman Hill , English editor and author, son of Arthur Hill, headmaster of Bruce Castle School, was born at Bruce Castle, Tottenham, Middlesex. He dropped his third name, Norman, publishing as just George Birkbeck Hill; to family and friends he was known as Birkbeck, not as George...
  
   (Pembroke)
• Hugh Haughton
  Hugh Haughton
  Hugh Haughton is an academic, author, editor and specialist in Irish literature and the literature of nonsense.Born in Cork in the Republic of Ireland and educated at Cambridge and Oxford, Hugh Haughton is a Professor at the University of York....
  
  
• Thomas James
  Thomas James
  Thomas James was an English librarian, first librarian of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.James became a fellow of New College, Oxford in 1593...
  
   (New College)
• Samuel Johnson
  Samuel Johnson
  Samuel Johnson , often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer...
  
   (Pembroke)
• Andrew Lang
  Andrew Lang
  Andrew Lang was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.- Biography :Lang was born in Selkirk...
  
   (Balliol)
• Gerard Langbaine
  Gerard Langbaine
  Gerard Langbaine was an English dramatic biographer and critic, best known for his An Account of the English Dramatic Poets , the earliest work to give biographical and critical information on the playwrights of English Renaissance theatre...
  
   (University)
• Monica Jones (St Hugh's)
• John Lahr
  John Lahr
  John Lahr is an American theater critic, and the son of actor Bert Lahr. Since 1992, he has been the senior drama critic at The New Yorker magazine.-Biography:...
  
   (Worcester)
• Andrew George Lehmann
  Andrew George Lehmann
  Andrew George Lehmann, M.A., D.Phil. Emeritus Professor Buckingham University, UK was a literary critic, academic, and seminal author and essayist in the areas of the Symbolist Movement in France, and the intellectual history of European Romanticism.Born in Chile to Mary Grisel Lehmann and Andrew...
  
  
• C. S. Lewis
  C. S. Lewis
  Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...
  
   (University and Magdalen) also of Narnia fame
• Alain LeRoy Locke
  Alain LeRoy Locke
  Alain LeRoy Locke was an American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. He is best known for his writings on and about the Harlem Renaissance. He is regarded as the "Father of the Harlem Renaissance"...
  
   (Hertford)
• Edward Lucie-Smith
  Edward Lucie-Smith
  John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith is a British writer, poet, art critic, curator, broadcaster and author of exhibition catalogues.-Biography:Lucie-Smith was born in Kingston, Jamaica, moving to the United Kingdom in 1946...
  
   (Merton)
• Fiona MacCarthy
  Fiona MacCarthy
  Fiona MacCarthy OBE is a British biographer and cultural historian best known for her studies of 19th and 20th century arts, crafts and design....
  
  
• Peter McDonald (University and Christ Church)
• Robert Macfarlane
  Robert Macfarlane
  Robert Macfarlane, , is a British travel writer and literary critic. Educated at Nottingham High School, Pembroke College, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford, he is currently a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and teaches in the Faculty of English at Cambridge.-Books:Macfarlane's first...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Norris McWhirter
  Norris McWhirter
  Norris Dewar McWhirter, CBE was a writer, political activist, co-founder of the Freedom Association, and a television presenter. He and his twin brother, Ross, were known internationally for the Guinness Book of Records, a book they wrote and annually updated together between 1955 and 1975...
  
   (Trinity) co-founder Guinness Book of Records (1955)
• Ross McWhirter
  Ross McWhirter
  Alan Ross Mayfield McWhirter , known as Ross McWhirter, was, with his twin brother, Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records and a contributor to Record Breakers...
  
   (Trinity) co-founder Guinness Book of Records (1955)
• Chris Maslanka
  Chris Maslanka
  Christopher M. Maslanka is a British writer and broadcaster, specialising in puzzles and problem solving.He was born in Clapham, London, but was brought up by his uncle and aunt in Lowdham, Nottingham. He was educated at The Becket School, Nottingham and went on to study physics at St...
  
   (St Catherine's)
• Ved Mehta
  Ved Mehta
  Ved Parkash Mehta is a writer who was born in Lahore, British India to a Hindu family. He lost his sight at the age of four as the result of an attack of cerebrospinal meningitis...
  
   (Balliol)
• Kate Millett
  Kate Millett
  Kate Millett is an American lesbian feminist writer and activist. A seminal influence on second-wave feminism, Millet is best known for her 1970 book Sexual Politics.-Career:...
  
   (St Hilda's) author, Sexual Politics (1970), founder Women's Art Colony Farm (1971)
• Peter Milward
  Peter Milward
  Peter Milward is a Jesuit priest and literary scholar. He is emeritus professor of English Literature at Sophia University in Tokyo and a leading figure in scholarship on English Renaissance literature. He has been chair of the Renaissance Institute at Sophia University since its inception in 1974...
  
   (Campion Hall) Emeritus Professor of English Literature Sophia University
• Toril Moi
  Toril Moi
  Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. Previously she held positions as a lecturer in French at the University of Oxford and as Director of the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Bergen, Norway...
  
   (Lady Margaret Hall and Pembroke)
• Jan Morris
  Jan Morris
  Jan Morris CBE is a Welsh nationalist, historian, author and travel writer. She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City.With an English mother and Welsh father,...
  
   (St Edmund Hall and Christ Church)
• Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris
  Brian Robert Morris
  Brian Robert Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris, , was a British poet, critic and professor of literature. He became the Labour Party's deputy chief whip and education spokesman in the House of Lords....
  
   (Worcester)
• Raymond Mortimer
  Raymond Mortimer
  Charles Raymond Mortimer Bell , who wrote under the name Raymond Mortimer, was a British writer, known mostly as a critic and literary editor....
  
   (Balliol)
• Beverley Nichols
  Beverley Nichols
  John Beverley Nichols , was an author, playwright, journalist, composer, and public speaker.-Career:...
  
   (Balliol)
• Harold Nicolson
  Harold Nicolson
  Sir Harold George Nicolson KCVO CMG was an English diplomat, author, diarist and politician. He was the husband of writer Vita Sackville-West, their unusual relationship being described in their son's book, Portrait of a Marriage.-Early life:Nicolson was born in Tehran, Persia, the younger son of...
  
   (Balliol)
• David Norbrook
  David Norbrook
  David Norbrook is Merton Professor of Renaissance English literature at Oxford University. He is a fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He specializes in literature, politics and historiography in the early modern period, and in early modern women's writing. He is currently writing a biography and...
  
   (Balliol, Magdalen, and Merton)
• Michael O'Neill
  Michael O'Neill (academic)
  Michael O'Neill is an English poet, and academic, specialising in the Romantic period and post-war poetry.-Academic career:...
  
   (Exeter)
• Francis Turner Palgrave
  Francis Turner Palgrave
  Francis Turner Palgrave was a British critic and poet.He was born at Great Yarmouth, the eldest son of Sir Francis Palgrave, the historian and his wife Elizabeth Turner, daughter of the banker Dawson Turner. His brothers were William Gifford Palgrave, Inglis Palgrave and Reginald Palgrave...
  
   (Balliol and Exeter)
• Walter Pater
  Walter Pater
  Walter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, critic of art and literature, and writer of fiction.-Early life:...
  
   (The Queen's)
• William Paton Ker
  William Paton Ker
  William Paton Ker was a Scottish literary scholar and essayist.-Life:He was born in Glasgow in 1855. He studied at Glasgow Academy, the University of Glasgow and Balliol College, Oxford....
  
   (Balliol and All Souls)
• Reynolds Price
  Reynolds Price
  Reynolds Price was an American novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price had a lifelong interest in ancient languages and Biblical scholarship...
  
   (Merton)
• Arthur Quiller-Couch
  Arthur Quiller-Couch
  Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen name of Q. He is primarily remembered for the monumental Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250–1900 , and for his literary criticism...
  
   (Trinity)
• Walter Alexander Raleigh
  Walter Raleigh (professor)
  Professor Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh was an English scholar, poet and author.He was born in London, the fifth child and only son of a local Congregationalist minister...
  
   (Merton) Professor of English Literature 1904-22
• C. Allen Thorndyke Rice publisher of the North American Review
  North American Review
  The North American Review was the first literary magazine in the United States. Founded in Boston in 1815 by journalist Nathan Hale and others, it was published continuously until 1940, when publication was suspended due to J. H. Smyth, who had purchased the magazine, being unmasked as a Japanese...
  
  
• Christopher Ricks
  Christopher Ricks
  Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks, FBA is a British literary critic and scholar. He is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford from 2004...
  
   (Balliol and Worcester)
• Neil Leon Rudenstine
  Neil Leon Rudenstine
  Neil Leon Rudenstine is an American educator, literary scholar, and administrator. He served as president of Harvard University from 1991 to 2001.-Life and career:...
  
   (New College) President of Harvard University 1991–2001
• John Campbell Shairp
  John Campbell Shairp
  John Campbell Shairp was a Scottish critic and man of letters.He was born at Houstoun House, Linlithgowshire, the third son of Major Norman Shairp of Houstoun, and was educated at Edinburgh Academy and the University of Glasgow.He gained a Shell exhibition to Balliol College, Oxford in 1840...
  
   (Balliol)
• Susan Sontag
  Susan Sontag
  Susan Sontag was an American author, literary theorist, feminist and political activist whose works include On Photography and Against Interpretation.-Life:...
  
   (St Anne's)
• Richard Steele
  Richard Steele
  Sir Richard Steele was an Irish writer and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Spectator....
  
   (Merton)
• Percy Stephensen (The Queen's)
• J. I. M. Stewart
  J. I. M. Stewart
  John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well-known for the works of literary criticism and contemporary novels published under his real name and for the crime fiction published under the pseudonym of Michael Innes...
  
   (Oriel and Christ Church)
• Jonathan Swift
  Jonathan Swift
  Jonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
  
   (Hertford)
• Ann Thwaite
  Ann Thwaite
  Ann Thwaite has written five major biographies. "AA Milne: His Life" was the Whitbread Biography of the Year, 1990. "Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape" was described by John Carey as "magnificent - one of the finest literary biographies of our time"...
  
   (St Hilda's)
• J. R. R. Tolkien
  J. R. R. Tolkien
  John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
  
   (Exeter and Pembroke) also of Lord of the Rings fame
• Jenny Uglow
  Jenny Uglow
  Jennifer Sheila Uglow OBE is a British biographer, critic and publisher. The editorial director of Chatto & Windus, she has written critically acclaimed biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick and the Lunar Society, among others, and has also compiled a women's...
  
   (St Anne's)
• Guðbrandur Vigfússon
  Guðbrandur Vigfússon
  Guðbrandur Vigfússon, known in English as Gudbrand Vigfusson, was one of the foremost Scandinavian scholars of the 19th century.-Life:He was born of an Icelandic family in Breiðafjörður...
  
  
• Fredric Warburg
  Fredric Warburg
  Fredric John Warburg was an English publisher best known for his association with the British author George Orwell...
  
   (Christ Church)
• Marina Warner (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Joseph Warton
  Joseph Warton
  Joseph Warton was an English academic and literary critic.He was born in Dunsfold, Surrey, England, but his family soon moved to Hampshire, where his father, the Reverend Thomas Warton, became vicar of Basingstoke. There, a few years later, Joseph's younger brother, the more famous Thomas Warton,...
  
   (Oriel)
• Raymond Williams
  Raymond Williams
  Raymond Henry Williams was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. He was an influential figure within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature are a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts...
  
  
• Simon Winchester
  Simon Winchester
  Simon Winchester, OBE , is a British-American author and journalist who resides mostly in the United States. Through his career at The Guardian, Winchester covered numerous significant events including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal...
  
   (St Catherine's)
• George Woodcock
  George Woodcock
  George Woodcock was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, an essayist and literary critic. He was also a poet, and published several volumes of travel writing. He founded in 1959 the journal Canadian Literature, the first academic journal specifically...
  
  

Media

Many journalists work in both print and broadcast media. The following are listed under the medium for which they are best known. Those who are known solely as sports commentators will be found at List of University of Oxford people in sport, exploration, and adventuring.

Editors

• Paul Anderson (Balliol) Tribune 1991-93, Deputy New Statesman 1993-96
• Perry Anderson
  Perry Anderson
  Perry Anderson is a British Leftist intellectual, historian, and political essayist. He is often identified with the post-1956 Western Marxism of the New Left in Europe. He is Professor of History and Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles and an editor of the New Left Review. He...
  
   (Worcester) New Left Review 1962-82 & 2000-03
• Lionel Barber
  Lionel Barber
  Lionel Barber is an English journalist.Barber was appointed Editor of the Financial Times in November 2005. Previously, he was the Financial Times' U.S. Managing Editor and before that, Editor of the FT's Continental European edition , during which he briefed US President George W. Bush ahead of...
  
   The Financial Times 2005-
• Paul Barker
  Paul Barker (writer)
  Paul Barker is a British journalist and writer.Barker was educated at local schools in the Calder Valley and won an Exhibition to Brasenose College, Oxford, to read French...
  
   (Brasenose) New Society 1968-86
• Peter Beinart
  Peter Beinart
  -Early life and education:Beinart was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of South African immigrants. His mother, Doreen, works at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and his father, Julian Beinart, is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His stepfather is theatre...
  
   (University) The New Republic 1999-2006, Editor-at-large 2006-
• Tina Brown
  Tina Brown
  Tina Brown, Lady Evans, CBE , is a journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host and author of The Diana Chronicles, a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales. Born a British citizen, she took United States citizenship in 2005 after emigrating in 1984 to edit Vanity Fair...
  
   (St Anne's) Tatler 1979-83, Vanity Fair 1984-92, The New Yorker 1992-98
• George Earle Buckle
  George Earle Buckle
  George Earle Buckle was an English editor and biographer.-Early years:Buckle was the son of George Buckle, a rector, and canon and precentor of Wells Cathedral, and Mary Hamlyn Earle, the sister of the philologist John Earle. He attended Honition grammar school and Winchester College before...
  
   (New College and All Souls) The Times 1884-1912
• Alastair Burnet
  Alastair Burnet
  Sir Alastair Burnet is a British journalist and broadcaster, known for his work in news and current affairs programmes.- Early life :...
  
   (Worcester) The Economist 1965-74, The Daily Express 1974-6
• William Percival Crozier
  William Percival Crozier
  William Percival Crozier was a British journalist and editor of the Manchester Guardian from 1932, when he succeeded Ted Scott, who had died in a sailing accident, until his death in 1944....
  
   (Trinity) The Manchester Guardian 1932-44
• Matthew d'Ancona
  Matthew d'Ancona
  Matthew d'Ancona is a British journalist. A former deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph, he was appointed editor of The Spectator in February 2006, a post he retained until August 2009.-Early life:...
  
   (Magdalen and All Souls) The Spectator 2006-
• Geoffrey Dawson
  Geoffrey Dawson
  George Geoffrey Dawson was editor of The Times from 1912 to 1919 and again from 1923 until 1941. His original last name was Robinson, but he changed it in 1917.-Early life:...
  
   (Magdalen and All Souls) The Times 1912-19 & 1923-41
• John Thadeus Delane
  John Thadeus Delane
  John Thadeus Delane , editor of The Times , was born in London.He was the second son of Mr WFA Delane, a barrister, of an old Irish family, who about 1832 was appointed by Mr Walter financial manager of The Times.While still a boy he attracted Mr Walter's attention, and it was always intended that...
  
   (Magdalen Hall) The Times 1841–77
• Bill Emmott
  Bill Emmott
  Bill Emmott is an English journalist.Emmott was educated at Latymer Upper School in London and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he attained a First Class Degree in PPE . After graduation, he worked for The Economist newspaper in Brussels, Tokyo and London, becoming editor in March 1993. He...
  
   (Magdalen) The Economist 1993-2006
• James Fallows
  James Fallows
  James Fallows is an American print and radio journalist. He has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly for many years. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and The American Prospect, among others. He is a...
  
   (The Queen's) US News & World Report 1996-98
• Kim Fletcher
  Kim Fletcher
  Kim Fletcher is a partner of the international corporate communications firm Brunswick.Educated at Heversham Grammar School, Westmorland, and Hertford College, Oxford, where he read law, Fletcher worked for various newspapers before being appointed news editor and then deputy editor of The Sunday...
  
   (Hertford) The Independent on Sunday 98-99, Ed Dir Telegraph New Media 00-03, Ed Dir Telegraph Group 03-05
• Paul Foot
  Paul Foot
  Paul Mackintosh Foot was a British investigative journalist, political campaigner, author, and long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party...
  
   (University) Socialist Worker 1972-78
• John Gross
  John Gross
  John Gross FRSL was an eminent English author, anthologist, literary and theatrical critic. The Spectator magazine called Gross “the best-read man in Britain”, as did The Guardian...
  
   (Wadham) Times Literary Supplement 1974-81, New York Times Book Review (Dep. Editor) 1985-1989
• John Lawrence Hammond
  John Lawrence Hammond
  John Lawrence Le Breton Hammond was a British journalist and writer on social history and politics. A number of his best-known works were jointly written with his wife, Barbara Hammond ....
  
   (St John's) The Speaker 1899-1906
• Max Hastings
  Max Hastings
  Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings, FRSL is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. He is the son of Macdonald Hastings, the noted British journalist and war correspondent and Anne Scott-James, sometime editor of Harper's Bazaar.-Life and career:Hastings was educated at Charterhouse...
  
   The Daily Telegraph 1986–95, The Evening Standard 1996-2001
• Alastair Hetherington
  Alastair Hetherington
  Hector Alastair Hetherington was a British journalist, newspaper editor and academic. For nearly twenty years he was the editor of The Guardian, and is regarded as one of the leading editors of the second half of the twentieth century.-Early years:Hetherington was the son of Sir Hector...
  
   (Corpus Christi) The Guardian 1956-75
• Ian Hislop
  Ian Hislop
  Ian David Hislop is a British journalist, satirist, comedian, writer, broadcaster and editor of the satirical magazine Private Eye...
  
   (Magdalen) Private Eye 1986-
• Anthony Howard
  Anthony Howard (journalist)
  Anthony Michell Howard, CBE was a prominent British journalist, broadcaster and writer. He was the editor of the New Statesman, The Listener and the deputy editor of The Observer...
  
   (Christ Church) New Statesman 1972-78, Deputy The Observer 1981-88
• Brian Inglis
  Brian Inglis
  Brian Inglis was an Irish journalist, historian and television presenter. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and retained an interest in Irish history and politics....
  
   (Magdalen) The Spectator 1959-62
• Richard Ingrams
  Richard Ingrams
  Richard Ingrams is an English journalist, a co-founder and second editor of the British satirical magazine Private Eye, and now editor of The Oldie magazine.-Career:...
  
   (University) co-founder Private Eye 1961, Editor 1963-86, founder The Oldie 1992
• Simon Jenkins
  Simon Jenkins
  Sir Simon David Jenkins is a British newspaper columnist and author, and since November 2008 has been chairman of the National Trust. He currently writes columns for both The Guardian and London's Evening Standard, and was previously a commentator for The Times, which he edited from 1990 to 1992...
  
   (St John's) Evening Standard 1976-78, The Times 1990-92
• Paul Johnson (Magdalen) New Statesman 1965-70
• Michael Kinsley
  Michael Kinsley
  Michael Kinsley is an American political journalist, commentator, television host, and pundit. Primarily active in print media as both a writer and editor, he also became known to television audiences as a co-host on Crossfire...
  
   (Magdalen) The New Republic 1979-81 & 1985-89, Slate 1996-2002, sometime of Harper's Magazine
• Andrew Knight
  Andrew Knight
  Andrew Stephen Bower Knight is a journalist, editor, and director of News Corporation.-Career:He joined The Economist Magazine in 1966 on the international business and investment sections...
  
   (Balliol) The Economist 1974-86
• Richard Lambert
  Richard Lambert
  Sir Richard Peter Lambert is the former Director-General of the CBI, and the present Chancellor of the University of Warwick.-Education:...
  
   (Balliol) Financial Times 1991-2001, Director General Confederation of British Industry 2006-
• Dominic Lawson
  Dominic Lawson
  Dominic Ralph Campden Lawson is a British journalist.-Background:Educated at Westminster School and then Christ Church, Oxford, he is the elder son of a former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Lawson and socialite Vanessa Salmon, heir to the Lyons Corner House empire, who died of...
  
   (Christ Church) The Spectator 1990-95, The Sunday Telegraph 1995-2005
• John Micklethwait
  John Micklethwait
  John Micklethwait is the editor-in-chief of The Economist.-Biography:Micklethwait was born in 1962 and educated at the independent school Ampleforth College and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied history. He worked for Chase Manhattan Bank for two years and joined The Economist in 1987...
  
   (Magdalen) The Economist 2006-
• Ferdinand Mount
  Ferdinand Mount
  Sir William Robert Ferdinand Mount, 3rd Baronet , usually known as Ferdinand Mount, is a British writer and novelist, columnist for The Sunday Times and commentator on politics, and Conservative Party politician...
  
   (Christ Church) Times Literary Supplement 1991-2003
• Rowan Pelling
  Rowan Pelling
  Rowan Dorothy Pelling is a British journalist and broadcaster, who first achieved note as the editor of a monthly literary/erotic magazine, entitled the Erotic Review....
  
   (St Hugh's) Erotic Review 1997-
• Peter Preston
  Peter Preston
  Peter John Preston is a British journalist and author. He was educated at Loughborough Grammar School and St John's College, Oxford, where he edited the student paper Cherwell...
  
   (St John's) The Guardian 1975-95
• William Rees-Mogg
  William Rees-Mogg
  William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg is an English journalist and life peer.-Education:Rees-Mogg was educated at Clifton College Preparatory School in Bristol and Charterhouse School in Godalming, followed by Balliol College, Oxford...
  
   (Balliol) The Times 1967–81, Chairman Arts Council 1982–89
• C. P. Scott
  C. P. Scott
  Charles Prestwich Scott was a British journalist, publisher and politician. Born in Bath, Somerset, he was the editor of the Manchester Guardian from 1872 until 1929 and its owner from 1907 until his death...
  
   (Corpus Christi) The Manchester Guardian 1872-1929
• Edward Taylor Scott
  Edward Taylor Scott
  Edward Taylor "Ted" Scott was a British journalist, who was editor and briefly co-owner of the Manchester Guardian, and the younger son of its legendary editor-owner C. P...
  
   The Manchester Guardian 1929-32
• Paul Spike
  Paul Spike
  Paul Robert Spike is an American author, editor and journalist. He is best known as the author of the 1973 memoir Photographs of My Father.-Education and background:...
  
   (St Catherine's) Punch 1997
• Richard Stengel
  Richard Stengel
  Richard "Rick" Stengel is an American editor, journalist and author and is Time magazine's 16th managing editor. While best known for his work for Time, he has written a number of books including a collaboration with Nelson Mandela on Mandela's autobiography...
  
   (Christ Church) Managing Editor Time 2006-
• Peter Stothard
  Peter Stothard
  Sir Peter Stothard is a British newspaper editor. He currently edits the Times Literary Supplement, and edited The Times from 1992 to 2002....
  
   (Trinity) The Times 1992-2002, Times Literary Supplement 2002-
• Andrew Sullivan
  Andrew Sullivan
  Andrew Michael Sullivan is an English author, editor, political commentator and blogger. He describes himself as a political conservative. He has focused on American political life....
  
   (Magdalen) The New Republic 1991-96
• Hilary Wainwright
  Hilary Wainwright
  Hilary Wainwright is a British socialist and feminist, best known for being editor of Red Pepper magazine.-Personal life:Hilary Wainwright's father was the Liberal MP Richard Wainwright, and her brother, Martin, is the Northern Editor of The Guardian, to which she occasionally contributes.She...
  
   Red Pepper
• John Walter
  John Walter (second)
  John Walter was the son of John Walter, the founder of The Times, and second editor of it.He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Trinity College, Oxford...
  
   (Trinity) The Times 1803–09
• Norman Webster
  Norman Webster
  Norman Eric Webster is a Canadian journalist: a former editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail and The Gazette.Born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, he was educated at Bishop's College School and received his B.A. from Bishop's University. He was a Rhodes Scholar at St John's College, Oxford...
  
   (St John's) sometime Editor-in-chief The Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette
• Jacob Weisberg
  Jacob Weisberg
  Jacob Weisberg is an American political journalist, serving as editor-in-chief of Slate Group, a division of The Washington Post Company. Weisberg is also a Newsweek columnist. He served as the editor of Slate magazine for six years, until stepping down in June 2008...
  
   (New College) sometime of Slate
• Andreas Whittam Smith
  Andreas Whittam Smith
  Andreas Whittam Smith CBE is an English financial journalist, who was one of the founders of The Independent newspaper which began publication in October 1986 with Whittam Smith as editor...
  
   (Keble) The Independent 86-93, Pres Brit Bd of Film Classification 97-02, First Church Estates Commr 02-
• Peregrine Worsthorne
  Peregrine Worsthorne
  Sir Peregrine Gerard Worsthorne is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster. He was educated at Stowe School, Peterhouse, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford. Worsthorne spent the largest part of his career at the Telegraph newspaper titles, eventually becoming editor of The Sunday Telegraph...
  
   (Magdalen) The Sunday Telegraph 1986-89

Writers

• David Aaronovitch
  David Aaronovitch
  David Aaronovitch is a British author, broadcaster, and journalist. He is a regular columnist for The Times, and author of Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country and Voodoo Histories: the role of Conspiracy Theory in Modern History...
  
   (Balliol)
• Tariq Ali
  Tariq Ali
  Tariq Ali , , is a British Pakistani military historian, novelist, journalist, filmmaker, public intellectual, political campaigner, activist, and commentator...
  
   (Exeter)
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
  Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
  Yasmin Alibhai-Brown MBE is a Ugandan-born British journalist and author, who describes herself as a "leftie liberal, anti-racist, feminist, Muslim, part-Pakistani...a very responsible person"...
  
   (Linacre)
• Lynn Barber
  Lynn Barber
  Lynn Barber is a British journalist, who writes for The Sunday Times.-Early life:Barber attended Lady Eleanor Holles School...
  
  
• Catherine Bennett
  Catherine Bennett (journalist)
  Catherine Dorothea Bennett is a British journalist, educated at Hertford College, Oxford.Bennett began her career in journalism at Honey magazine. Subsequently she worked at the Sunday Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Times, The Times and the short-lived Sunday Correspondent newspaper before...
  
   (Hertford)
• Adrian Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose
  Adrian Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose
  Adrian Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose is a British journalist, writer, and nobleman.Adrian Berry was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford....
  
   (Christ Church)
• Anna Blundy
  Anna Blundy
  Anna Blundy , is a British author and journalist, educated at City of London School for Girls and Westminster School. Every Time We Say Goodbye, her memoir of her father, the foreign correspondent David Blundy , was published in 1998...
  
  
• Emma Brockes
  Emma Brockes
  Emma Brockes is a British author and journalist for The Guardian newspaper. She lives in New York.Brockes graduated in 1997 with a first from St Edmund Hall, Oxford University where she was editor of the student newspaper Cherwell and won the Philip Geddes prize for journalism...
  
   (St Edmund Hall)
• James Buchan
  James Buchan
  James Buchan, born 11 June 1954, is a British novelist and journalist.-Biography:Buchan is the son of William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir and grandson of John Buchan, the Scottish novelist and diplomat. He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, and began his career as a Financial...
  
   (Magdalen)
• David Caute
  David Caute
  John David Caute is a British author, novelist, playwright, historian and journalist.Caute was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Wellington, Wadham College, Oxford and St Antony's College, Oxford. A Henry Fellow at Harvard, he was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1959, but resigned in...
  
   (Wadham, St Antony's, and All Souls) Literary Editor New Statesman 1979-80
• Hugh Chisholm
  Hugh Chisholm
  Hugh Chisholm was a British journalist, and editor of the 11th and 12th editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica....
  
   (Christ Church) Editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (11th & 12th edns)
• Alexander Cockburn
  Alexander Cockburn
  Alexander Claud Cockburn is an American political journalist. Cockburn was brought up in Ireland but has lived and worked in the United States since 1972. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edits the political newsletter CounterPunch...
  
   (Keble)
• Andrew Cockburn
  Andrew Cockburn
  Andrew Cockburn is a journalist who has lived in the United States for many years.-Early life and family:Born in London in 1947, Cockburn grew up in County Cork, Ireland. His father was socialist author and journalist Claud Cockburn...
  
   (Worcester)
• Claud Cockburn
  Claud Cockburn
  Francis Claud Cockburn was a British journalist. He was well known proponent of communism. His saying, "believe nothing until it has been officially denied" is widely quoted in journalistic studies.He was the second cousin of novelist Evelyn Waugh....
  
  
• Patrick Cockburn
  Patrick Cockburn
  Patrick Cockburn is an Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979 for the Financial Times and, presently, The Independent....
  
   (Trinity)
• Peter Conradi
  Peter Conradi
  Peter Conradi is a British author and journalist.-Biography:He is the author of The Red Ripper: Inside the Mind of Russia's Most Brutal Serial Killer ; Mad Vlad: Vladimir Zhirinovksy and the New Russian Nationalism and Hitler's Piano Player...
  
   (Brasenose)
• Robert Crampton
  Robert Crampton
  Robert Crampton is an award-winning English journalist. He is also the son of Peter Crampton, former Member of the European Parliament for Humberside.-Early life:...
  
  
• George Dangerfield
  George Dangerfield
  George Dangerfield was a journalist, historian, and the literary editor of Vanity Fair from 1933 to 1935...
  
   (Hertford) Literary Editor Vanity Fair 1933-35
• Nick Denton
  Nick Denton
  Nick Denton, born August 24, 1966, is a British journalist and internet entrepreneur, the founder and proprietor of the blog collective Gawker Media, and the managing editor of the New York-based Gawker.com...
  
   (University)
• E. J. Dionne
  E. J. Dionne
  Eugene Joseph "E.J." Dionne, Jr. is an American journalist and political commentator, and a long-time op-ed columnist for The Washington Post...
  
  
• Cordelia Fine
  Cordelia Fine
  Cordelia Fine is an Australian academic psychologist and writer. She is the author of two books on neuroscience, several book chapters and numerous academic publications...
  
  
• Jonathan Freedland
  Jonathan Freedland
  Jonathan Saul Freedland is a British journalist, who writes a weekly column for The Guardian and a monthly piece for the Jewish Chronicle. He is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and The New York Review of Books, and presents BBC Radio 4’s contemporary history series,...
  
   (Wadham)
• Thomas Friedman
  Thomas Friedman
  Thomas Lauren Friedman is an American journalist, columnist and author. He writes a twice-weekly column for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs including global trade, the Middle East, and environmental issues and has won the Pulitzer Prize three times.-Personal...
  
   - American journalist
  Journalist
  A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
  
  , author
  Author
  An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
  
   and a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize
  Pulitzer Prize
  The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
  
  
• Barton Gellman
  Barton Gellman
  Barton David Gellman is a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist, blogger and bestselling author.-Career:After 21 years on the staff of The Washington Post, Gellman resigned in February 2010 to concentrate on book and magazine writing...
  
  
• Alan Gibson
  Alan Gibson
  Norman Alan Stanley Gibson was an English journalist, writer and radio broadcaster, best known for his work in connection with cricket, though he also sometimes covered football and rugby union...
  
   (Queen's)
• Maurizio Giuliano
  Maurizio Giuliano
  Maurizio Giuliano is an Italian-British traveller, author and journalist. As of 2004 he was, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the youngest person to have visited all sovereign nations of the world...
  
   (University)
• Richard Gott
  Richard Gott
  Richard Willoughby Gott is a British journalist and historian, who has written extensively on Latin America...
  
  
• Tom Gross
  Tom Gross
  Tom Gross is a British-born journalist and international affairs commentator, specializing in the Middle East. He was formerly Jerusalem correspondent for the London Sunday Telegraph and for the New York Daily News...
  
   (Wadham)
• John Harris
  John Harris (critic)
  John Rhys Harris is a British journalist, writer, and critic.-Early life:Harris was raised in Wilmslow in north Cheshire by a university lecturer and a teacher, daughter of a nuclear research chemist...
  
   (The Queen's)
• Julia Hartley-Brewer
  Julia Hartley-Brewer
  Julia Hartley-Brewer is a British broadcaster and columnist. She presents the weekday afternoon radio show from 1pm to 4pm on LBC 97.3FM, the talk radio station....
  
   (Magdalen)
• Christopher Hitchens
  Christopher Hitchens
  Christopher Eric Hitchens is an Anglo-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the...
  
   (Balliol)
• Anthony Holden
  Anthony Holden
  Anthony Holden is an English writer, broadcaster and critic, particularly known as a biographer of artists including Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, Leigh Hunt, Lorenzo da Ponte and Laurence Olivier, and of members of the British Royal family, notably Charles, Prince of Wales...
  
  
• Austen Ivereigh
  Austen Ivereigh
  Austen Ivereigh is a Roman Catholic journalist, commentator and campaigner. In he became coordinator of the Citizen Organising Foundation's Strangers into Citizens campaign and associate editor of the online magazine Godspy....
  
   (St Antony's) Director of Public Affairs Archbishop of Westminster 2004-06
• Rachel Johnson
  Rachel Johnson
  Rachel Johnson is an English editor, journalist and author based in London.Johnson is the daughter of former Conservative MEP Stanley Johnson and artist Charlotte Johnson Wahl , the daughter of Sir James Fawcett, a prominent barrister and president of the European Commission of Human Rights...
  
   (New College)
• Tobias Jones
  Tobias Jones (writer)
  -Biography:Tobias Jones is a British author and journalist. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, and he then worked at the London Review of Books and the Independent on Sunday. He moved to Parma in Italy in 1999. He returned to the UK in 2004...
  
   (Jesus)
• Oliver Kamm
  Oliver Kamm
  Oliver Kamm is a British writer and journalist. He wrote Anti-Totalitarianism: The Left-wing Case for a Neoconservative Foreign Policy , an advocacy of interventionism in foreign policy....
  
   (New College)
• John Keay
  John Keay
  John Keay is an English journalist and author specialising in writing popular histories about India and the Far East, often with a particular focus on their colonisation and exploration by Europeans.-Life and career:...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Robert Kee
  Robert Kee
  Robert Kee CBE is a British broadcaster, journalist and writer, known for his historical works on World War II and Ireland....
  
   (Magdalen)
• Lucy Kellaway
  Lucy Kellaway
  Lucy Kellaway is the management columnist at the Financial Times . Her column is syndicated in The Irish Times. In addition she has worked as energy correspondent, Brussels correspondent, a Lex writer, and interviewer of business people and celebrities, all with the FT...
  
   (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Ludovic Kennedy
  Ludovic Kennedy
  Sir Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy was a British journalist, broadcaster, humanist and author best known for re-examining cases such as the Lindbergh kidnapping and the murder convictions of Timothy Evans and Derek Bentley, and for his role in the abolition of the death penalty in the United...
  
   (Christ Church)
• Martin Kettle
  Martin Kettle
  Martin James Kettle is a British journalist and author. The son of two prominent communist activists Arnold Kettle and Margot Kettle , Martin Kettle was educated at Leeds Modern School and Balliol College, Oxford University.Kettle worked for the National Council for Civil Liberties as a research...
  
   (Balliol)
• Miles Kington
  Miles Kington
  Miles Beresford Kington was a British journalist, musician and broadcaster.-Early life :...
  
   (Trinity)
• Charles Krauthammer
  Charles Krauthammer
  Charles Krauthammer, MD is an American Pulitzer Prize–winning syndicated columnist, political commentator, and physician. His weekly column appears in The Washington Post and is syndicated to more than 275 newspapers and media outlets. He is a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and The New...
  
  
• Nicholas D. Kristof
  Nicholas D. Kristof
  Nicholas Donabet Kristof is an American journalist, author, op-ed columnist, and a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. He has written an op-ed column for The New York Times since November 2001 and is known for bringing to light human rights abuses in Asia and Africa, such as human trafficking and the...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Christina Lamb
  Christina Lamb
  Christina Lamb is a British journalist who is currently Foreign Correspondent for The Sunday Times. She was educated at University College, Oxford and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society...
  
   (University)
• Osbert Lancaster
  Osbert Lancaster
  Sir Osbert Lancaster, CBE was an English cartoonist, author, art critic and stage designer, best known to the public at large for his cartoons published in the Daily Express.-Biography:Lancaster was born in London, England...
  
   (Lincoln)
• Nathaniel Lande
  Nathaniel Lande
  Nathaniel Lande, born of Canadian parents, is a journalist, author, and filmmaker with a career spanning several decades. He is the author of ten books including Cricket and Dispatches from the Front: A History of the American War Correspondent, and was the creative force behind TIME Incorporated...
  
   Creative Director of Time, Director of Time World News Service & Time-Life
• Peter Millar (Magdalen)
• Sheridan Morley
  Sheridan Morley
  Sheridan Morley was an English author, biographer, critic, director, actor and broadcaster. He was the eldest son of actor Robert Morley and grandson of actress Dame Gladys Cooper, and wrote biographies of both...
  
   (Merton)
• Harry Mount
  Harry Mount
  Harry Mount is a British writer, journalist, foreign policy expert and former barrister who works for Reader's Digest, The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail....
  
  
• Eustace Clare Grenville Murray
  Eustace Clare Grenville Murray
  Eustace Clare Grenville Murray , English journalist, was the illegitimate son of Richard Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham. Educated at Hertford College, Oxford, he entered the diplomatic service through the influence of Lord Palmerston, and in 1851 joined the British embassy at Vienna as attache...
  
   (Hertford) diplomat 1851-68, founder Queen's Messenger 1869, co-founder World 1874
• James Owen
  James Owen (British author)
  -Biography:Owen was born in Holland Park, London, and was educated at Eton College and University College, Oxford. After a brief period as a barrister, he worked for The Daily Telegraph newspaper as a journalist from 1995 until 2001...
  
   (University)
• Melanie Phillips
  Melanie Phillips
  Melanie Phillips is a British journalist and author. She began her career on the left of the political spectrum, writing for such publications as The Guardian and New Statesman. In the 1990s she moved to the right, and she now writes for the Daily Mail newspaper, covering political and social...
  
   (St Anne's)
• Adam Raphael
  Adam Raphael
  Adam Eliot Geoffrey Raphael is an award-winning English journalist and author. In the British Press Awards of 1973, he was named Journalist of the Year for his work on labour conditions in South Africa, and he has also been a presenter and editor of BBC Television's Newsnight. Since 2004, he has...
  
   (Oriel)
• Kate Rew
  Kate Rew
  Kate Rew is a journalist and author who founded the Outdoor Swimming Society. Her bestselling book, "Wild Swim", helped further the recent growth in popularity of wild swimming.-Early life:...
  
  
• W. Andrew Robinson
  W. Andrew Robinson
  W. Andrew Robinson is a British author and former newspaper editor.Andrew Robinson was educated at the Dragon School, Eton College where he was a King's Scholar, University College, Oxford where he read Chemistry and finally the School of Oriental and African Studies in London...
  
  (University) Literary Editor Times Higher Education Supplement
• Miranda Sawyer
  Miranda Sawyer
  Miranda Sawyer is an English journalist and broadcaster.She grew up in Wilmslow, Cheshire with her brother Toby, who is an actor. She has a degree in Jurisprudence from Pembroke College, Oxford...
  
   (Pembroke)
• George Steer
  George Steer
  George Lowther Steer was a South African-born British journalist, author and war correspondent who reported on wars preceding World War II, especially the Second Italo-Abyssinian War and the Spanish Civil War...
  
   (Christ Church)
• William Shawcross
  William Shawcross
  William Hartley Hume Shawcross, CVO is a British writer and commentator.-Career:Shawcross was educated at St. Aubyns Preparatory School, Rottingdean, Eton College and University College, Oxford. He attended St. Martin's Art School to study sculpture after leaving Oxford. He worked as a journalist...
  
   (University)
• Jonny Steinberg
  Jonny Steinberg
  Jonny Steinberg is a South African writer and scholar. In the mid-1990s he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and studied at Oxford University's Balliol college, from which he graduated with a doctorate in political theory. He returned to South Africa in 1998 and worked for the national daily...
  
  
• Frances Stonor Saunders
  Frances Stonor Saunders
  Frances Hélène Jeanne Stonor Saunders is a British journalist and historian.A few years after graduating with a first-class Honours degree in English from St Anne's College, Oxford, she embarked on a career as a television film-maker...
  
   (St Anne's)
• David Stubbs
  David Stubbs
  David Stubbs is a British journalist. He was born on 13 September 1962 in London, but grew up in Leeds. As a student at Oxford University he was a close friend of Simon Reynolds; together they worked on an influential fanzine called Monitor before joining Melody Maker in 1986...
  
  
• Chris Taylor
  Chris Taylor (journalist)
  Chris Taylor, who previously served as the San Francisco correspondent for TIME magazine, and is now a senior editor at Business 2.0 magazine, was born in Liverpool, England, and received his primary education in the small northeastern town of Chester-le-Street. He attended Oxford University,...
  
   (Merton)
• Polly Toynbee
  Polly Toynbee
  Polly Toynbee is a British journalist and writer, and has been a columnist for The Guardian newspaper since 1998. She is a social democrat and broadly supports the Labour Party, while urging it in many areas to be more left-wing...
  
   (St Anne's)
• Kenneth Tynan
  Kenneth Tynan
  Kenneth Peacock Tynan was an influential and often controversial English theatre critic and writer.-Early life:...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Tom Wintringham
  Tom Wintringham
  Thomas Henry Wintringham was a British soldier, military historian, journalist, poet, Marxist, politician and author. He was an important figure in the formation of the Home Guard during World War II and was one of the founders of the Common Wealth Party.-Early life:Tom Wintringham was born 1898...
  
   (Balliol) founder Daily Worker (1930) and Left Review (1934)
• Christine Whelan
  Christine Whelan
  Christine Barrett Whelan is an author, journalist and commentator. She is the author of two books about marriage, and a forthcoming book of self-help for young-adults. She is a visiting assistant professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.-Early life:Whelan was born in New York City to...
  
   (Worcester) author of Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women
• John Woodcock
  John Woodcock (cricket writer)
  John Charles Woodcock OBE is an English cricket writer and journalist.He was born at Longparish, Hampshire, where he still lives, and was dubbed "the Sage of Longparish" by Alan Gibson. He is a co-author of the Longparish Village Handbook. Woodcock attended Trinity College, Oxford, and won hockey...
  
   (Trinity)
• Adrian Wooldridge
  Adrian Wooldridge
  Adrian Wooldridge is the Management Editor and 'Schumpeter' columnist for The Economist magazine. Until July 2009 he was The Economist's Washington Bureau Chief and 'Lexington' columnist....
  
   (Balliol and All Souls)
• Hugo Young
  Hugo Young
  Hugo John Smelter Young was a British journalist and columnist and senior political commentator at The Guardian.-Early life and education:...
  
   (Balliol)
• Toby Young
  Toby Young
  Toby Young, MA, FRSA is a British journalist and the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, the tale of his stint in New York as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine...
  
   (Brasenose)

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• Karan Thapar
  Karan Thapar
  Karan Thapar is one of India's noted television commentators and interviewers. He is the youngest child of General P. N. Thapar and Mrs. Bimla Thapar.-Education:...
  
   (St. Antony's College)
• Brett Allen (Mansfield)
• Samira Ahmed
  Samira Ahmed
  Samira Ahmed is a British freelance journalist, writer and broadcaster at the BBC, where she has presented Radio 4's PM, The World Tonight and Sunday. She also presented two Proms for BBC Four in 2011. Ahmed's writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent and on The Spectator magazine Arts...
  
   (St Edmund Hall)
• Jackie Ashley
  Jackie Ashley
  Jacqueline Ashley is a British journalist and broadcaster.Ashley is the daughter of Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, the life peer and former Labour MP. Her mother was Pauline Kay Ashley née Crispin...
  
   (St Anne's)
• Zeinab Badawi
  Zeinab Badawi
  Zeinab Badawi is a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist. She was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News , and co-presented Channel 4 News with Jon Snow , before joining BBC News. Badawi is currently the presenter of World News Today broadcast on both BBC Four and BBC World News...
  
   (St Hilda's)
• Paul Barry
  Paul Barry
  Paul Barry is a British-born, Australian-based journalist, who has won many awards for his investigative reporting. He now works as a senior writer for online media outlet The Power Index.-Career:...
  
  
• Ben Brown
  Ben Brown (journalist)
  Ben Brown is a journalist and news presenter for the BBC's rolling news channel BBC News. He has also presented the BBC News at Six and the BBC News at Ten and is currently an occasional presenter on the BBC Weekend News on BBC One...
  
   (Keble)
• Fiona Bruce
  Fiona Bruce
  Fiona Elizabeth Bruce is a British journalist, newsreader and television presenter. Since joining the BBC in 1989, she has gone on to present many flagship programmes for the corporation including the BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten, Crimewatch, Call My Bluff and, most recently, Antiques Roadshow...
  
   (Hertford)
• Michael Brunson
  Michael Brunson
  Michael Brunson OBE is a British political journalist.He was educated at Bedford School, a boys' independent school in Bedford, Bedfordshire, and read Theology at Queen's College, Oxford University. Michael Brunson began his broadcasting career at the BBC and later served as Washington...
  
   (The Queen's)
• Brenda Buttner
  Brenda Buttner
  Brenda Buttner is a senior business correspondent and host of Bulls & Bears on Fox News Channel. She also frequently contributes to Your World with Neil Cavuto....
  
   (Balliol)
• Reeta Chakrabarti
  Reeta Chakrabarti
  Reeta Chakrabarti is currently education correspondent for BBC News.-Early life:Chakrabarti was born in London to an Indian Bengali family and was raised in Birmingham, also having spent time in India as a teenager as a student at the Calcutta International School in Kolkata...
  
   (Exeter)
• Charles Collingwood
  Charles Collingwood (journalist)
  Charles Collingwood was a television newscaster.Born in Three Rivers, Michigan, Collingwood graduated from Deep Springs College and Cornell University and in 1939 received a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. After working in London for United Press, Collingwood was hired by Edward R...
  
  
• Alan Connor
  Alan Connor
  Alan Connor is a British writer, journalist and television presenter. First seen on Channel 4's youth entertainment programme The Word in 1995, he later appeared on The Big Breakfast and BBC Radio Five Live. Currently, a BBC News correspondent, appearing on BBC News 24 and The Daily Politics...
  
   (Wadham)
• Giles Coren
  Giles Coren
  Giles Coren is a British food critic, television presenter and novelist. He is known for expressing controversial opinions, and for his television appearances with the comedian Sue Perkins.-Personal:...
  
   (Keble)
• Victoria Coren
  Victoria Coren
  Victoria Elizabeth Coren is a British writer, presenter and champion poker player. Coren writes weekly columns for The Observer and The Guardian newspapers and hosts the BBC Four television quiz show Only Connect....
  
  
• Adam Curtis
  Adam Curtis
  Adam Curtis is a British BAFTA winning documentarian and a writer, television producer, director and narrator. He works for BBC Current Affairs.-Early life and education:Curtis was born in 1955...
  
   (Mansfield)
• Evan Davis
  Evan Davis (journalist)
  Evan Harold Davis is a British economist, journalist and presenter for the BBC. In October 2001, Davis took over from Peter Jay as the BBC's economics editor. He left this post in April 2008 to become a presenter on BBC Radio 4's Today programme...
  
   (St John's)
• Robin Day
  Robin Day
  Sir Robin Day, OBE was a British political broadcaster and commentator. His obituary in the Guardian stated that "he was the most outstanding television journalist of his generation...
  
   (St Edmund Hall)
• David Dimbleby
  David Dimbleby
  David Dimbleby is a British BBC TV commentator and a presenter of current affairs and political programmes, most notably the BBC's flagship political show Question Time, and more recently, art, architectural history and history series...
  
   (Christ Church)
• Stephanie Flanders
  Stephanie Flanders
  Stephanie Hope Flanders, born 5 August 1968, is a British broadcast journalist, and is currently the BBC economics editor.She is the daughter of British actor and comic singer Michael Flanders and Claudia Cockburn.-Early life:...
  
   (Balliol)
• Matt Frei
  Matt Frei
  Matthias Frei better known as Matt Frei is a German-born British television news journalist and writer, presently the Washington, D.C. correspondent for Channel 4 News.-Personal life:...
  
   (St Peter's)
• Delia Gallagher
  Delia Gallagher
  Delia Buckley Gallagher is an American journalist based in Rome who currently serves as the Senior Editor for Inside the Vatican magazine. She formerly served as CNN’s Faith and Values Correspondent. Based in New York, Gallagher was a long time CNN Vatican Analyst, Vaticanologist, and religious...
  
   (Blackfriars)
• Paul Gambaccini
  Paul Gambaccini
  Paul Matthew Gambaccini is a radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom...
  
   (University)
• Krishnan Guru-Murthy
  Krishnan Guru-Murthy
  Krishnan Guru-Murthy , is a British television presenter and journalist employed by Channel 4. He presents the Channel 4 Evening News and the foreign affairs programme Unreported World.-Education:...
  
   (Hertford)
• Guto Harri (The Queen's)
• Russell Harty
  Russell Harty
  Russell Harty was an English television presenter of arts programmes and chat shows.-Early life:Born Frederick Russell Harty in Blackburn, Lancashire, he was the son of a fruit and vegetable stallholder on the local market...
  
   (Exeter)
• Gordon Honeycombe
  Gordon Honeycombe
  Ronald Gordon Honeycombe is an author, playwright and stage actor, well known in the United Kingdom as a national television newscaster....
  
   (University)
• Simon Jack
  Simon Jack
  Simon Jack is a British business journalist and correspondent for the BBC, known for appearing on BBC Breakfast until September 2011...
  
  
• Sarah Jarvis
• Sally Jones
  Sally Jones
  Sally Jones is a British television news and sports presenter, later writing freelance on education and sport for newspapers and magazines including the Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph.- Education :...
  
   (St Hugh's)
• Natasha Kaplinsky
  Natasha Kaplinsky
  Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky is a British newsreader and television presenter, currently employed by ITV having previously worked for Channel 5, Sky News and the BBC...
  
   (Hertford)
• Katty Kay
  Katty Kay
  Katty Kay is an English journalist and correspondent, based at the Washington, D.C. bureau of BBC News. She also blogs at the website True/Slant and is a Board Member at the IWMF .-Biography:...
  
  
• Martha Kearney
  Martha Kearney
  Martha Catherine Kearney is an Irish-born British broadcaster and journalist. She is the main presenter of BBC Radio 4's lunchtime news programme The World at One.-Early life:...
  
   (St Anne's)
• Bridget Kendall
  Bridget Kendall
  Bridget Kendall MBE is an English radio and television correspondent.-Early life:Kendall is a daughter of statistician David George Kendall and Diana...
  
   (Lady Margaret Hall and St Antony's)
• Kenneth Kendall
  Kenneth Kendall
  Kenneth Kendall is a retired British broadcaster. He was a contemporary of Richard Baker and Robert Dougall...
  
  
• Victoria Lautman
  Victoria Lautman
  Victoria Lautman is a Chicago broadcast journalist and writer with a specialty in arts, culture, and the humanities.Lautman has an M.A. in Art History from George Washington University, and a B.A. in Anthropology and Art History from the University of New Mexico...
  
   (Merton)
• Alvar Lidell
  Alvar Lidell
  Tord Alvar Quan Lidell was a BBC radio announcer and newsreader.Lidell was born in Wimbledon Park, Surrey, to Swedish parents. His father John Adrian Lidell was a timber importer; his mother was Gertrud Lidell . Lidell attended King's College School, Wimbledon and Exeter College, Oxford...
  
   (Exeter)
• Rachel Maddow
  Rachel Maddow
  Rachel Anne Maddow is an American television host and political commentator. Maddow hosts a nightly television show, The Rachel Maddow Show, on MSNBC. Her syndicated talk radio program, The Rachel Maddow Show, aired on Air America Radio...
  
   (Lincoln)
• Howard Marshall
  Howard Marshall (broadcaster)
  Howard Percival Marshall achieved distinction in several fields, but is best remembered as a pioneering commentator for live broadcasts of state occasions and sporting events — in particular cricket Test matches — for BBC radio during the 1930s.He went to Oriel College, Oxford, winning a rugby...
  
   (Oriel)
• Rex Murphy
  Rex Murphy
  Rex Murphy is a Canadian commentator and author, primarily on Canadian political and social matters.Murphy was born in Carbonear, Newfoundland, 105 kilometres west of St. John's and is the second of five children of Harry and Marie Murphy...
  
  
• Rageh Omaar
  Rageh Omaar
  Rageh Omaar , is a Somali born British journalist and writer. His latest book Only Half of Me deals with the tensions between these two sides of his identity. He used to be a BBC world affairs correspondent, where he made his name reporting from Iraq...
  
   (Exeter)
• Robert Orchard
  Robert Orchard
  Robert Orchard is a British radio journalist and presenter.Robert Orchard was educated at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford in the 1970s, where he was a member of the Oxford University Broadcasting Society. While at Oxford, he wrote and directed student revues with Rowan Atkinson and...
  
  
• Robert Peston
  Robert Peston
  Robert Peston is a British journalist. Since February 2006, he has been the Business Editor for BBC News. He became known to a wider public with his reporting of the late-2000s financial crisis, especially with his scoop on the Northern Rock crisis.-Early life and education:Peston is the son of...
  
   (Balliol)
• Libby Purves
  Libby Purves
  Libby Purves OBE is a British radio presenter, journalist and author. A diplomat's daughter, she was educated at convent schools in Israel, Bangkok, South Africa and France, and then Beechwood Sacred Heart School in Tunbridge Wells.Purves won a scholarship to St Anne's College, Oxford, where she...
  
   (St Anne's)
• Esther Rantzen
  Esther Rantzen
  Esther Louise Rantzen CBE is an English journalist and television presenter who is best known for presenting the BBC television series That's Life!, and for her work in various charitable causes. She is founder of the child protection charity ChildLine, and also advocates the work of the Burma...
  
   (Somerville)
• James Robbins
  James Robbins
  James Robbins is the BBC's Diplomatic Correspondent, a post he has held since January 1998. He previously served as its Southern Africa Correspondent and its Europe Correspondent . He led the BBC's coverage of 9/11, making the first report on that evening's BBC Ten O'Clock News, a report lasting...
  
   (Christ Church)
• Nick Robinson
  Nick Robinson
  Nicholas Anthony "Nick" Robinson is a British journalist and political editor for the BBC. Robinson was interested in politics from a young age, and went on to study a Philosophy, Politics, and Economics degree at Oxford University, where he was also President of the Oxford University Conservative...
  
   (University)
• Robert Robinson (Exeter)
• Tim Sebastian
  Tim Sebastian
  Tim Sebastian is a television journalist. He is the moderator of the New Arab Debates and the Doha Debates, and was the first presenter of BBC's HARDtalk....
  
  
• John Sergeant
  John Sergeant (journalist)
  John Sergeant is a British television and radio journalist and broadcaster.-Biography:The son of a missionary who was also a distinguished linguist, Sergeant is of Russian Jewish origin on his mother's side. Sergeant's early life meant that he followed his father's work, and was raised in...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Peter Sissons
  Peter Sissons
  Peter George Sissons is a broadcast journalist in the United Kingdom. He was the presenter of the BBC Nine O'Clock News and the BBC News at Ten between 1993 and 2003, as earlier a newscaster for ITN, providing bulletins on ITV and Channel 4. He is also a former presenter of the BBC's Question Time...
  
   (University)
• Howard K. Smith
  Howard K. Smith
  Howard Kingsbury Smith was an American journalist, radio reporter, television anchorman, political commentator, and film actor. He was one of the original Edward R. Murrow boys.-Early life:...
  
   (Merton)
• Francine Stock
  Francine Stock
  Francine Stock is a British radio and TV presenter and novelist, of part-French origin.-Early life:Born in Devon, and with early years in Edinburgh and Australia, Stock later attended St Catherine's School, Guildford, where she was head girl, and is a graduate of Jesus College, Oxford, with a...
  
   (Jesus)
• Manisha Tank
  Manisha Tank
  Manisha Tank is a British television news presenter, presenting World Report on CNN International.-Education:Tank was educated at a girls' state comprehensive school, Regents Park Community College, in Southampton, Hampshire, followed by Taunton's College , and the University of Oxford, where she...
  
  
• Louis Theroux
  Louis Theroux
  Louis Sebastian Theroux is an English broadcaster best known for his Gonzo style journalism on the television series Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends and When Louis Met.... His career started off in journalism and bears influences of notable writers in his family such as his father, Paul Theroux and...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Alex Thomson (University)
• Vir Sanghvi
  Vir Sanghvi
  Vir Sanghvi is an Indian print and television journalist, columnist, and talk show host. Currently, he is an Advisor, at HT Media....
  
   (Brasenose)
• Rajdeep Sardesai
  Rajdeep Sardesai
  Rajdeep Sardesai is an Indian journalist, political commentator and news presenter. Sardesai is the Editor-in-Chief of IBN18 Network, that includes CNN-IBN, IBN-7 and IBN-Lokmat.- Biography :...
  
   (University)

Administration

Directors-General of the BBC

• Frederick Ogilvie
  Frederick Ogilvie
  Sir Frederick Wolff Ogilvie was Director-General of the BBC from 19 July 1938 to 26 January 1942, and was succeeded by joint Directors-General Cecil Graves and Robert W. Foot. He was knighted on 10 June 1942....
  
   1938-42 (Jesus)
• Hugh Greene
  Hugh Greene
  Sir Hugh Carleton Greene KCMG, OBE was a British journalist and television executive. He was the Director-General of the BBC from 1960―1969, and is generally credited with modernising an organisation that had fallen behind in the wake of the launch of ITV in 1955.-Early life and work:Hugh was born...
  
   1960-69 (Merton)
• Alasdair Milne
  Alasdair Milne
  Alasdair David Gordon Milne is a former BBC producer who became Controller of BBC Scotland, the BBC's Director of Programmes and then Director-General of the BBC in July 1982. His resignation was forced by the BBC Governors in January 1987, following pressure from the Thatcher government...
  
   1982-87 (New College)
• Michael Checkland
  Michael Checkland
  Sir Michael Checkland was Director-General of the BBC from 1987 to 1992, having been appointed after the forced resignation of Alasdair Milne.- Early life :...
  
   1987-92 (Wadham)
• John Birt, Baron Birt
  John Birt, Baron Birt
  John Birt, Baron Birt is a former Director-General of the BBC who was in the post from 1992 to 2000.After a successful career in commercial television, first at Granada and then at LWT, Birt was brought in as deputy director-general of the BBC in 1987 for his current affairs expertise...
  
   1992-2000 (St Catherine's)
• Mark Thompson
  Mark Thompson
  Mark John Thompson is Director-General of the BBC, a post he has held since 2004, and a former chief executive of Channel 4...
  
   2004- (Merton)

• Jana Bennett
  Jana Bennett
  Jana Bennett OBE is Director of Vision at the BBC. She took up the post in 2006, having been Director of Television from April 2002. She was previously Executive Vice President and General Manager at Discovery Communications in the US...
  
   Head of Science BBC 1994-2002, Director of Television 2002-06, Director of Vision 2006-
• Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose
  Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose
  John Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose was a British nobleman, politician, and newspaper proprietor.John Berry was born in Surrey on 12 July 1909, the eldest son of William Berry, later first Viscount Camrose and first Baronet Berry of Hackwood Park, and Mary Agnes Berry, née Corns...
  
   (Christ Church) MP 1941-45, Dep Chmn Telegraph 39-87, Vice Chmn Amalgamated Press 42-59
• Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell (disclaimed 3rd Viscount Camrose)
  Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell
  William Michael Berry, 3rd Viscount Camrose and Baron Hartwell MBE was a newspaper proprietor and journalist.Michael Berry was the second son of the 1st Viscount Camrose. He succeeded his brother Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose as Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph...
  
   (Christ Church) Chmn & Ed-in-Chief Daily & Sunday Telegraph until 1986
• Calvin Cheng
  Calvin Cheng
  Calvin Ern-Lee Cheng is a Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore, and a leading figure in the fashion modelling industry in Asia, having had senior roles in Elite Model Management, Ford Models, the world's two best known and oldest model agencies...
  
   (Hertford) founder Looque International (2004)
• Arthur fforde
  Arthur fforde
  Sir Arthur Frederic Brownlow fforde, GBE, was a solicitor, civil servant, headmaster, writer and businessman. The surname fforde is spelled with two lowercase f's....
  
   (Trinity) Headmaster of Rugby 1948-57, Chairman of the BBC 1957-64
• Maurice Gorham
  Maurice Gorham
  Maurice Gorham was an Irish journalist and broadcasting executive. After being educated in England at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire and later Balliol College, Oxford, he began working as a journalist on the London local newspaper Westminster Guardian and Weekly Westminster after he graduated in...
  
   (Balliol) Controller BBC Television Service 1946-47, Director Radio Éireann 1953-59
• George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe
  George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe
  Major George Anthony Geoffrey Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe, JP was a British politician, soldier and media man....
  
   (Balliol) Chairman of the BBC 1980-83
• Walter Isaacson
  Walter Isaacson
  Walter Isaacson is a writer and biographer. He is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C. He has been the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the Managing Editor of TIME...
  
   (Pembroke) Chairman & CEO of CNN 2001-3, President & CEO of Aspen Institute 2003-
• Roly Keating
  Roly Keating
  Roland "Roly" Keating is the current Director of Archive Content for the BBC.-Education:Keating was educated at Westminster School, an independent school for boys in London, followed by Balliol College at the University of Oxford, where he read Classics.-Life and career:Keating joined the BBC in...
  
   (Balliol) Controller of BBC Four 2002-04, Controller of BBC Two 2004-
• Rupert Murdoch
  Rupert Murdoch
  Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG is an Australian-American business magnate. He is the founder and Chairman and CEO of , the world's second-largest media conglomerate....
  
   (Worcester) founder, Chairman, and CEO News Corporation since 1980
• Cathy Rogers
  Cathy Rogers
  Cathy Rogers is a British television executive, producer and presenter, who has also had some success as a pop musician.Rogers was born in Lancashire, England. She studied medicine at Oxford University, gaining a Master's Degree in Health Policy...
  
   Creative Director RDF Media (Los Angeles) 2001-
• Howard Stringer
  Howard Stringer
  Sir Howard Stringer is a Welsh-born American businessman and the chairman, president and CEO of Sony Corporation.-Personal life:...
  
   (Merton) Chairman and CEO Sony Corporation 2005-

Stage and television

• Maria Aitken
  Maria Aitken
  Maria Penelope Katharine Aitken is an English actress, writer, producer and director.Aitken was born in Dublin, the daughter of Sir William Aitken, a Conservative MP, and socialite Penelope Aitken, whose father was John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby. She is a great-niece of newspaper magnate and...
  
   (St Anne's)
• Ewan Bailey (Keble)
• Kenneth Barnes
  Kenneth Barnes
  Sir Kenneth Ralph Barnes, KGB, CBE was director of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, from 1909 until 1955.He was born in Heavitree, near Exeter, one of six siblings...
  
   (Christ Church)
• Kate Beckinsale
  Kate Beckinsale
  Kathryn Bailey "Kate" Beckinsale is an English actress. After some minor television roles, she made her film debut in Much Ado About Nothing while still a student at Oxford University...
  
   (New College)
• Eve Best
  Eve Best
  Eve Best is an English actress, best known for her roles as Dr. O'Hara in the Showtime television series Nurse Jackie, as Wallis Simpson in the 2010 film The King's Speech, and Dolley Madison in the 2011 American Experience television special about that First Lady.-Early life and education:Best...
  
   (Lincoln)
• Bunny Breckinridge
  Bunny Breckinridge
  John Cabell "Bunny" Breckinridge was an American actor and drag queen, best known for his role as "The Ruler" in Ed Wood's film Plan 9 from Outer Space, his only film appearance.- Early life :...
  
  
• Richard Burton (Exeter)
• Gemma Chan
  Gemma Chan
  Gemma Chan is an English actress and former model. She is best known for playing Mia Bennett in the BBC's Doctor Who "The Waters of Mars" with David Tennant and Lindsay Duncan; Soo Lin in Sherlock, the modern day adaptation of Sherlock Holmes for BBC One with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin...
  
   (Worcester)
• Hugh Dancy
  Hugh Dancy
  - Early life and career :Dancy was born in Stoke-on-Trent, the son of British philosopher Jonathan Dancy, a professor at the University of Reading and at the University of Texas at Austin. His mother, Sarah, is a publisher. His brother, Jack, is a co-director of the travel company, Trufflepig...
  
   (St. Peter's)
• Oliver Ford Davies
  Oliver Ford Davies
  -Biography:From the King's School, Canterbury, he won a scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, where he read History and became President of the Oxford University Dramatic Society . He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award in 1990 for Best Actor in a New Play for Racing Demon...
  
   (Merton)
• Michael Denison
  Michael Denison
  John Michael Terence Wellesley Denison CBE was an English actor.-Background:Denison was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire in 1915. He was raised by his aunt and uncle from the age of three weeks, following the death of his mother and his estrangement from his father. He was educated at Harrow...
  
   (Magdalen)
• George Devine
  George Devine
  George Alexander Cassady Devine CBE was an extremely influential theatrical manager, director, teacher and actor in London from the late 1940s until his death. He also worked in the media of TV and film.-Biography:...
  
  
• Michael Flanders
  Michael Flanders
  Michael Henry Flanders OBE, was an English actor, broadcaster, and writer and performer of comic songs. He is best known to the general public for his partnership with Donald Swann performing as the duo Flanders and Swann....
  
   (Christ Church) Flanders and Swann
• Emilia Fox
  Emilia Fox
  Emilia Rose Elizabeth Fox is an award-winning English actress, known for her role as Dr. Nikki Alexander on BBC crime drama Silent Witness, having joined the cast in 2004 following the departure of Amanda Burton. She also appears as Morgause in the BBC's Merlin beginning in the programme's second...
  
  
• Val Gielgud
  Val Gielgud
  Val Henry Gielgud was an English actor, writer, director and broadcaster. He was a pioneer of radio drama for the BBC, and also directed the first ever drama to be produced in the newer medium of television....
  
  
• Emily Hamilton
  Emily Hamilton
  Emily Miranda Hamilton is a British actress.-Early life:Born Emily Miranda Beevers, she was a pupil at Notting Hill and Ealing High School before going on to study English at Wadham College, Oxford. Emily is married to fellow actor Tristan Gemmill.-Career:Hamilton's notable roles include:*The Bill...
  
  
• Charles Hawtrey (Pembroke)
• George Procter Hawtrey
  George Procter Hawtrey
  George Procter Hawtrey was a British actor, playwright and pageantmaster. His father was Reverend John William Hawtrey, headmaster of the Alden House School at Slough. He was educated at Eton College and Pembroke College, Oxford. Hawtrey's two brothers, William and Charles, were also actors. He...
  
   (Pembroke)
• Francesca Hunt
  Francesca Hunt
  Francesca Hunt is a British actress. She has starred in two television drama series for the BBC, Roughnecks and Strathblair, as well as the sitcom A Prince Among Men and several one-off dramas including Over Here. In between TV appearances, she has also managed to play some of Britain's most...
  
  
• Felicity Jones
  Felicity Jones
  Felicity Jones is an English actress from Birmingham. She is best known to television audiences for her role as the school bully Ethel Hallow in the first series of The Worst Witch and its sequel Weirdsister College...
  
   (Wadham)
• Harry Lloyd
  Harry Lloyd
  Harry Lloyd is an English actor. He played Will Scarlet in the first two seasons of the BBC drama Robin Hood which began in 2006...
  
   (Christ Church)
• Jodhi May
  Jodhi May
  Jodhi May is an English actress.-Early life:Born in Camden Town, London, May first acted at the age of 12 in 1988's A World Apart. The role earned her a Best Actress award at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, shared with her co-stars Barbara Hershey and Linda Mvusi...
  
   (Wadham)
• Emily Mortimer
  Emily Mortimer
  Emily Kathleen A. Mortimer is an English actress. She began performing on stage, and has since appeared in several film and television roles, including Scream 3, Match Point, Lars and the Real Girl, and Shutter Island....
  
   (Lincoln)
• Katherine Parkinson
  Katherine Parkinson
  Laura Katherine Parkinson is an English actress and comedian who is known for playing the part of Jen Barber in the Channel 4 comedy series The IT Crowd...
  
  
• Rosamund Pike
  Rosamund Pike
  Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike is a British actress. Her film roles include villainous Bond girl Miranda Frost in Die Another Day, Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Helen in An Education, Lisa in Made in Dagenham, Miriam Grant-Panofsky in Barney's Version and Kate Sumner in Johnny English...
  
   (Wadham)
• Hugh Quarshie
  Hugh Quarshie
  - Early and Personal Life :Quarshie is of mixed Ghanaian, English and Dutch ancestry and was born in Accra, Ghana, to Emma Wilhelmina and Richard Quarshie, and emigrated with his family to the United Kingdom when he was aged three...
  
   (Christ Church)
• Diana Quick
  Diana Quick
  -Life:Quick was born in London, England. She grew up in Dartford, Kent, the third of a dentist's four children. She was educated at Dartford Grammar School for Girls, Kent. She was greatly aided by her English teacher, Miss Davis, who encouraged her to pursue acting...
  
   (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Wallace Shawn
  Wallace Shawn
  Wallace Michael Shawn , sometimes credited as Wally Shawn, is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, author, voice artist, and intellectual. His best-known film roles include Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre , Vizzini in The Princess Bride , and debate teacher Mr...
  
  
• Waen Shepherd
  Waen Shepherd
  Waen Shepherd is an English actor and comedian. Originally from Yorkshire, England, he later moved to London.-Career:Following his days as a stand-up poet and fringe actor , Waen started out performing bizarre experimental monologues at the early Cluub Zarathustra, touring with spoof techno band...
  
  
• Donald Swann
  Donald Swann
  Donald Ibrahím Swann was a British composer, musician and entertainer. He is best known to the general public for his partnership of writing and performing comic songs with Michael Flanders .-Life:...
  
   (Christ Church) Flanders and Swann
• Honeysuckle Weeks
  Honeysuckle Weeks
  Honeysuckle Weeks is a British actress, best known for her starring role as Samantha Stewart in the British TV series Foyle's War, since 2002.-Background:...
  
   (Pembroke)
• Samuel West
  Samuel West
  Samuel Alexander Joseph West is an English actor and theatre director. He is perhaps best known for his role in Howards End and his work on stage. He also starred in the award-winning play ENRON...
  
   (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Simon Woods
  Simon Woods
  Simon Woods is an English actor best known for his role as Octavian in Season 2 of the British-American television series Rome and the 2005 Pride & Prejudice as Mr. Charles Bingley...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Emily Woof
  Emily Woof
  Emily Woof , is an English actress and author, known for her roles in such films as The Full Monty, The Woodlanders, Velvet Goldmine, Wondrous Oblivion, Silent Cry and The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse....
  
  
• Michael York
  Michael York (actor)
  Michael York, OBE is an English actor.-Early life:York was born in Fulmer, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the son of Florence Edith May , a musician; and Joseph Gwynne Johnson, a Llandovery born Welsh ex-Royal Artillery British Army officer and executive with Marks and Spencer department stores...
  
   (University)

Comedy

• Rowan Atkinson
  Rowan Atkinson
  Rowan Sebastian Atkinson is a British actor, comedian, and screenwriter. He is most famous for his work on the satirical sketch comedy show Not The Nine O'Clock News, and the sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. Bean and The Thin Blue Line...
  
   (The Queen's)
• Angus Deayton
  Angus Deayton
  Gordon Angus Deayton is an English actor, writer, musician, comedian and broadcaster. He is best known for his role as Victor Meldrew's long-suffering neighbour Patrick Trench in the comedy series One Foot in the Grave...
  
   (New College)
• Richard Herring
  Richard Herring
  Richard Keith Herring is a British comedian and writer, whose early work includes his involvement in the double-act, Lee and Herring...
  
   (St Catherine's)
• Armando Iannucci
  Armando Iannucci
  Armando Giovanni Iannucci is a Scottish comedian, satirist, writer, director, performer and radio producer. Born in Glasgow, he studied at Oxford University and left graduate work on a PhD about John Milton to pursue a career in comedy....
  
   (University)
• Terry Jones
  Terry Jones
  Terence Graham Parry Jones is a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director, children's author, popular historian, political commentator, and TV documentary host. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team....
  
   (St Edmund Hall)
• Stewart Lee
  Stewart Lee
  Stewart Lee is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera...
  
   (St Edmund Hall)
• Josie Long
  Josie Long
  Josie Long is an English comedian.-Background:Long spent her early life in Orpington, South East London, where she attended Newstead Wood School for Girls in Swift House. She also attended GIFT Ltd. summer schools. She began performing stand-up comedy at 14, winning the BBC New Comedy Awards at...
  
   (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Dudley Moore
  Dudley Moore
  Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE was an English actor, comedian, composer and musician.Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in the ground-breaking comedy revue Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s, and then became famous as half of the highly popular television...
  
   (Magdalen) (St Edmund Hall)
• Al Murray
  Al Murray
  Alastair James Hay "Al" Murray , is a British comedian best known for his stand-up persona, The Pub Landlord, a stereotypical xenophobic public house licensee. In 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy...
  
   (St Edmund Hall)
• Michael Palin
  Michael Palin
  Michael Edward Palin, CBE FRGS is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries....
  
   (Brasenose)
• Sally Phillips
  Sally Phillips
  -Career:Sally Phillips was the only woman in the 1990 Oxford Revue THRASH which also starred Ed Smith. She did nine consecutive Edinburgh Festivals, appearing in shows such as Ra-Ra-Rasputin, Arthur Smith's version of Hamlet and Cluub Zarathustra with Simon Munnery, Stewart Lee, Richard Thomas,...
  
   (New College)
• Mel Smith
  Mel Smith
  Melvin Kenneth "Mel" Smith is an English comedian, writer, film director, producer, and actor. He is most famous for his work on the sketch comedy shows Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones along with his comedy partner Griff Rhys Jones.- Early life :Smith's father, Kenneth, was born...
  
   (New College)
• Laura Solon
  Laura Solon
  Laura Solon is an English comedian, actor, writer, and winner of the 2005 Perrier Comedy Award, only the second woman to win as a solo performer .-Background:...
  
   (Worcester)
• Andy Zaltzman
  Andy Zaltzman
  Andrew "Andy" Zaltzman is a British comedian and author who largely focuses on political material. He has worked extensively with John Oliver; their work together includes Political Animal, The Department and The Bugle.-Early life:...
  
   (University)

Film

• Lindsay Anderson
  Lindsay Anderson
  Lindsay Gordon Anderson was an Indian-born, British feature film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave...
  
  
• Frank Cottrell Boyce
  Frank Cottrell Boyce
  -Awards:*2004: Buch des Monats des Instituts für Jugendliteratur/Book of the Month by the Institute for Youth Literature , Millions*2004: Carnegie Medal, Millions*2004: Luchs des Jahres , Millions...
  
   (Keble)
• Donald Crisp
  Donald Crisp
  Donald Crisp was an English film actor. He was also an early motion picture producer, director and screenwriter...
  
   Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 1941
• Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
  Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
  Florian Maria Georg Christian, Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck is a German film director, best known for writing and directing the 2007 Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others and the 2010 film The Tourist.-Personal life and family:...
  
   (New College) Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 2007
• David Giles (Oriel)
• Hugh Grant
  Hugh Grant
  Hugh John Mungo Grant is an English actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César. His films have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant achieved international stardom after appearing in Richard Curtis's...
  
   (New College)

• Ken Loach
  Ken Loach
  Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...
  
   (St Peter's)
• Terrence Malick
  Terrence Malick
  Terrence Frederick Malick is a U.S. film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning almost four decades, Malick has directed five feature films....
  
   (Magdalen)
• Laura Mulvey
  Laura Mulvey
  Laura Mulvey is a British feminist film theorist. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London...
  
  
• Dilys Powell
  Dilys Powell
  Elizabeth Dilys Powell was a British journalist, author and film critic.She was born into a middle class family in Bridgnorth, Shropshire. Her mother was Mary Jane Lloyd; her father, Thomas Powell, a bank manager...
  
   (Somerville)
• Tony Richardson
  Tony Richardson
  Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson was an English theatre and film director and producer.-Early life:Richardson was born in Shipley, Yorkshire in 1928, the son of Elsie Evans and Clarence Albert Richardson, a chemist...
  
   Academy Award for Best Director 1963 for Tom Jones
  Tom Jones (film)
  Tom Jones is a 1963 British adventure comedy film, an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling , starring Albert Finney as the titular hero. It was one of the most critically acclaimed and popular comedies of its time, winning four Academy Awards...
  
  
• John Schlesinger
  John Schlesinger
  John Richard Schlesinger, CBE was an English film and stage director and actor.-Early life:Schlesinger was born in London into a middle-class Jewish family, the son of Winifred Henrietta and Bernard Edward Schlesinger, a physician...
  
   (Balliol) Academy Award for Best Director 1969

• Michael Winterbottom
  Michael Winterbottom
  Michael Winterbottom is a prolific English filmmaker who has directed seventeen feature films in the past fifteen years. He began his career working in British television before moving into features...
  
  

Music

Composers

• Richard Addinsell
  Richard Addinsell
  Richard Stewart Addinsell was a British composer, best known for film music, primarily his Warsaw Concerto, composed for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight .-Life:...
  
   (Hertford)
• Thomas Ashwell
  Thomas Ashwell
  Thomas Ashwell or Ashewell was an English composer of the Renaissance. He was a skilled composer of polyphony, and may have been the teacher of John Taverner....
  
   (Cardinal College)
• Richard Baker
  Richard Baker (composer/conductor)
  Richard Baker is a British composer and conductor, known equally for his own highly charged and distinctive music and for his performances of contemporary music, especially the music of his contemporaries in the UK.-Life:...
  
   (Exeter)
• Edward Bairstow
  Edward Bairstow
  Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow was born in Huddersfield on 22 August 1874 and died in York on 1 May 1946. He was an English organist and composer in the Anglican church music tradition....
  
   (Balliol)
• Lennox Berkeley
  Lennox Berkeley
  Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley was an English composer.- Biography :He was born in Oxford, England, and educated at the Dragon School, Gresham's School and Merton College, Oxford...
  
   (Merton)
• George Butterworth
  George Butterworth
  George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC was an English composer best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E...
  
   (Trinity)
• Barney Childs
  Barney Childs
  Barney Childs was an American composer and teacher.Born in Spokane, Washington, he taught and composed avant-garde music and literature at universities in the United States and United Kingdom.-Music:...
  
   (Oriel)
• Reginald de Koven
  Reginald de Koven
  Henry Louis Reginald De Koven was an American music critic and prolific composer, particularly of comic operas.-Biography:...
  
   (St John's)
• Paul Drayton
  Paul Drayton (composer)
  Paul Drayton is a British composer, conductor, pianist, and teacher.He was educated at High Wycombe Royal Grammar School from 1956 to 1962. He studied music at Brasenose College, Oxford, and was subsequently Director of Music at New College School, Oxford...
  
   (New College)
• John Farmer
  John Farmer (1835-1901)
  John Farmer , from Nottingham, composed oratorios, cantatas, and other church music, and chamber music.His father, also John , was a Nottingham lacemaker and a cellist...
  
   (Balliol)
• John Gardner
  John Gardner (composer)
  John Linton Gardner, CBE is an English composer of classical music.-Biography:Gardner was born in Manchester, England and brought up in Ilfracombe, North Devon. His father Alfred Linton Gardner was a local GP and amateur composer who was killed in action in the last months of the First World War....
  
   (Exeter)
• Jane Glover
  Jane Glover
  Jane Glover CBE is a British-born conductor and music scholar.-Early life:Glover attended Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls. Her father, Robert Finlay Glover MA TD,was headmaster of Monmouth School and it was through this connection that she was able to meet Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears...
  
   (St Hugh's)
• Yannis Philippakis
  Yannis Philippakis
  Yannis Philippakis is a singer of the alternative indie and dance punk band Foals. He is of Greek and South African Jewish descent. He left Greece with his mother when he was five years old. His father taught him to dance the folk traditional songs and sing...
  
   (Oxford)
• William Henry Harris
  William Henry Harris
  Sir William Henry Harris was an English organist and composer, affectionately nicknamed 'Doc H' by his choristers.Harris was born in Fulham, London and died in Petersfield. He was a chorister of Holy Trinity, Tulse Hill...
  
   (New College and Christ Church)
• Basil Harwood
  Basil Harwood
  Basil Harwood was an English organist and composer.-Life:Basil Harwood was born in Woodhouse, Gloucestershire on 11 April 1859. His mother died in 1867 when Basil was eight. His parents were Quakers but his elder sister Ada, on reaching 21 in 1867, converted to the Anglican Church...
  
   (Trinity and Christ Church)
• Joseph Horovitz
  Joseph Horovitz
  Joseph Horovitz is a British composer and conductor. Horovitz's family emigrated to England in 1938. He studied music and modern languages at New College, Oxford, and later attended the Royal College of Music in London, studying composition with Gordon Jacob. He then undertook a year of further...
  
   (New College)
• Michael John Hurd
  Michael John Hurd
  Michael John Hurd was a composer and musicologist principally known for his choral music.He was born in Gloucester on 19 December 1928 and educated at The Crypt School, Gloucester and Pembroke College, Oxford.He was also a composition pupil of Lennox Berkeley...
  
   (Pembroke)
• Peter Lawlor
  Stiltskin
  Stiltskin is a Scottish post-grunge/rock band, who first achieved widespread popularity in the mid 1990s. Currently, Stiltskin's only original member is vocalist Ray Wilson...
  
    (Brasenose)
• Kenneth Leighton
  Kenneth Leighton
  Kenneth Leighton was a British composer and pianist. His compositions include much Anglican church music, and many pieces for choir and for piano as well as concertos, symphonies, much chamber music and an opera. He wrote a well-known setting of the Coventry Carol...
  
   (The Queen's and Worcester)
• Andrew Lloyd Webber
  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Herbert Murrill
  Herbert Murrill
  Herbert Murrill was an English musician, composer, and organist.-Biography:Murrill was born in London. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1925 to 1928 and thereafter was organ scholar at Worcester College, Oxford, from 1928 to 1931. In 1933 he married the concert pianist Alice Margaret...
  
   (Worcester) Prof of Composition Royal Academy of Music 1933-52, Hd of Music BBC 1950-52
• Tarik O'Regan
  Tarik O'Regan
  Tarik O'Regan , full name Tarik Hamilton O'Regan , is a British composer, partly of Algerian extraction. His compositions number over 90 and are partially represented on 22 recordings which have been recognised with two GRAMMY nominations. He is also the recipient of two British Composer Awards...
  
   (Pembroke & New College)
• Stephen Oliver (Worcester)
• Ian Parrott
  Ian Parrott
  Ian Parrott , who retired from the Gregynog Chair of Music at Aberystwyth in 1983, is a prolific Anglo-Welsh composer and writer on music. His distinctions include the first prize of the Royal Philharmonic Society for his symphonic poem Luxor, and commissions by the BBC and Yale University, and for...
  
   (New College)
• Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
  Hubert Parry
  Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet was an English composer, teacher and historian of music.Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song "Jerusalem", the coronation anthem "I was glad" and the hymn tune "Repton", which sets the words...
  
   (Exeter)
• Rachel Portman
  Rachel Portman
  Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman, OBE is a British composer, best known for her film work. She was the first female composer to win an Academy Award in the category of Best Original Score...
  
   (Worcester)
• Thomas Preston
  Thomas Preston (composer)
  Thomas Preston was an English organist and composer who held posts at Magdalen College, Oxford, Trinity College, Cambridge, and St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.-Further reading:...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Daniel Purcell
  Daniel Purcell
  Daniel Purcell was an English composer, the younger brother of Henry Purcell.As a teenager, Daniel Purcell joined the choir of the Chapel Royal, and in his mid-twenties he became organist of Magdalen College, Oxford. He began to compose while at Oxford, but in 1695 he moved to London to compose...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Bernard Rose
  Bernard Rose (musician)
  Bernard William George Rose, OBE was variously a student at the Royal College of Music 1933-1935, organist, soldier, and composer...
  
   (The Queen's and Magdalen)
• Erik Routley
  Erik Routley
  Erik Routley was an English Congregational minister, composer and musicologist. He was educated at Lancing College and Magdalen and Mansfield Colleges in Oxford...
  
   (Mansfield)
• Robert Saxton
  Robert Saxton
  -Biography:After early advice and encouragement from Benjamin Britten, Robert Saxton took private composition lessons with Elisabeth Lutyens. He went on to study with Robin Holloway at Cambridge University, with Robert Sherlaw Johnson as a post-graduate at Oxford University, and later with Berio....
  
   (Worcester)
• Tim Souster
  Tim Souster
  Tim Souster was a British composer best known for his electronic music output.- Background :Born Timothy Andrew James Souster in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, Souster was educated at Bedford Modern School and New College, Oxford...
  
   (New College)
• John Stainer
  John Stainer
  Sir John Stainer was an English composer and organist whose music, though not generally much performed today , was very popular during his lifetime...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Robert Steadman
  Robert Steadman
  Robert Steadman is a British composerof classical music who mostly works in a post-minimalist style but also writes lighter music, including musicals, and compositions for educational purposes...
  
   (Keble)
• Robert Still
  Robert Still
  Robert Still was an English composer, educator and amateur tennis player.Robert Still was born in London on 10 June 1910...
  
   (Trinity)
• John Taverner
  John Taverner
  John Taverner was an English composer and organist, regarded as the most important English composer of his era.- Career :...
  
   (Christ Church)
• William Walton
  William Walton
  Sir William Turner Walton OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera...
  
   (Christ Church)
• Peter Warlock
  Peter Warlock
  Peter Warlock was a pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine , an Anglo-Welsh composer and music critic. He used the pseudonym when composing, and is now better known by this name....
  
   (Christ Church)
• Thomas Weelkes
  Thomas Weelkes
  Thomas Weelkes was an English composer and organist. He became organist of Winchester College in 1598, moving to Chichester Cathedral. His works are chiefly vocal, and include madrigals, anthems and services.-Life:Weelkes was baptised in the little village church of Elsted in Sussex on 25...
  
   (New College)
• James Whitbourn
  James Whitbourn
  - Biography :James Whitbourn was born in Kent and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was a choral scholar and gained a degree in Music. His international reputation as a composer for concert hall and screen, developed from his early career as a programme maker at the BBC, during which...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Philip Wilby
  Philip Wilby
  Philip Wilby is a British composer.Educated at Leeds Grammar School and Keble College, Oxford, he joined the staff at the University of Leeds in 1972...
  
   (Keble)
• Sandy Wilson
  Sandy Wilson
  Sandy Wilson is an English composer and lyricist, best known for his musical The Boy Friend .-Biography:Wilson was born Alexander Galbraith Wilson in Sale, Greater Manchester, and was educated at Harrow School and Oriel College, Oxford. During the war he served in the Royal Ordnance Corps in Great...
  
   (Oriel)

Librettist

• Myfanwy Piper
  Myfanwy Piper
  Mary Myfanwy Piper was a British art critic and opera librettist.Myfanwy Evans was born into a Welsh family in London. She attended North London Collegiate School and read English Language and Literature at St Hugh's College, Oxford. She married the artist John Piper, with whom she lived in rural...
  
   (St Hugh's)

Conductors

• Thomas Beecham
  Thomas Beecham
  Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet CH was an English conductor and impresario best known for his association with the London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic orchestras. He was also closely associated with the Liverpool Philharmonic and Hallé orchestras...
  
   (Wadham)
• Harry Bicket
  Harry Bicket
  Harry Bicket is a British conductor, harpsichordist and organist.Bicket was educated at Radley College, Christ Church, Oxford, where he was organ scholar, and the Royal College of Music...
  
   (Christ Church)
• Adrian Boult
  Adrian Boult
  Sir Adrian Cedric Boult CH was an English conductor. Brought up in a prosperous mercantile family he followed musical studies in England and at Leipzig, Germany, with early conducting work in London for the Royal Opera House and Sergei Diaghilev's ballet company. His first prominent post was...
  
   (Christ Church)
• Harry Christophers
  Harry Christophers
  Harry Christophers is an English conductor. He attended the King's School, Canterbury and was a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral under choirmaster Allan Wicks and played clarinet in the school orchestra alongside Andrew Marriner...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Nicholas Cleobury
  Nicholas Cleobury
  Nicholas Cleobury is an English conductor.He was organ scholar at Worcester College, Oxford, conductor of Schola Cantorum of Oxford and held assistant organist posts at Chichester Cathedral and Christ Church, Oxford before turning to orchestral and operatic work...
  
   (Worcester)
• Laurence Cummings
  Laurence Cummings
  Laurence Cummings , MA , ARCM, FRCO, HonRAM is a British harpsichordist, organist, and conductor. Cummings was educated at Solihull School, Christ Church, Oxford and the Royal College of Music...
  
   (Christ Church)
• Howard Goodall
  Howard Goodall
  210px|thumb|Howard Goodall at St. John the Baptist Church in Devon, United Kingdom, May 2009Howard Lindsay Goodall CBE is a British composer of musicals, choral music and music for television...
  
   (Christ Church)
• Vernon Handley
  Vernon Handley
  Vernon George "Tod" Handley CBE was a British conductor, known in particular for his support of British composers. He was born of a Welsh father and an Irish mother into a musical family in Enfield, London. He acquired the nickname "Tod" because his feet were turned in at his birth, which his...
  
   (Balliol)
• David Lloyd-Jones
  David Lloyd-Jones
  David Matthias Lloyd-Jones is a British conductor who has specialised in British and Russian music. He is also an editor and translator, especially of Russian operas.- Biography :...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Simon Rattle
  Simon Rattle
  Sir Simon Denis Rattle, CBE is an English conductor. He rose to international prominence as conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and since 2002 has been principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic ....
  
   (St Anne's)
• Leopold Stokowski
  Leopold Stokowski
  Leopold Anthony Stokowski was a British-born, naturalised American orchestral conductor, well known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from many of the great orchestras he conducted.In America, Stokowski...
  
   (The Queen's) Academy Honorary Award 1941
• John Whitfield
  John Whitfield (conductor)
  John Whitfield is a British musician and conductor from Darlington, England. Whitfield was educated at Chetham's School of Music and Keble College, Oxford.-Conducting career:...
  
   (Keble)

Organists

• Thomas Armstrong (Keble and Christ Church) Principal Royal Academy of Music 1955-68
• Timothy Byram-Wigfield
  Timothy Byram-Wigfield
  Timothy Byram-Wigfield is an English organist and conductor.Timothy Byram-Wigfield was a chorister at King's College, Cambridge under David Wilcocks and Philip Ledger...
  
   (Christ Church)
• John Clarke Whitfield
  John Clarke Whitfield
  John Clarke Whitfield , English organist and composer, was born at Gloucester, and educated at Oxford under Dr Philip Hayes....
  
  
• E. T. Cook
  E. T. Cook
  Edgar Thomas Cook CBE D.Mus. FRCO FRCM was an English organist and composer .Edgar Cook was born in Worcester. He was sent to the Royal Grammar School Worcester and began his career as a church organist in 1898. In 1904 he became assistant organist of Worcester Cathedral under Sir Ivor Atkins...
  
   (The Queen's)
• Clive Driskill-Smith
  Clive Driskill-Smith
  Clive Driskill-Smith is an English organist and the Sub-Organist at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.- Biography :He was awarded the Sheila Mossman Memorial Prize by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music before winning a Music Scholarship to Eton College in 1990...
  
   (Christ Church)
• George Job Elvey
  George Job Elvey
  Sir George Job Elvey , English organist and composer, was born at Canterbury on the 27th of March 1816. He was a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral under Highmore Skeats, the organist...
  
   (New College)
• Jeremy Filsell
  Jeremy Filsell
  Jeremy Filsell is an English pianist, organist, and composer.- Biography :Having played piano and organ from a young age, he was a Limpus prize winner for the FRCO examination, which he took when he was 19, and Silver Medallist of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. He studied music at Oxford...
  
   (Keble)
• Philip Hayes
  Philip Hayes (organist)
  Philip Hayes was a composer, organist, singer and conductor.His early musical education was overseen by his father William Hayes. He was awarded the degree of B.Mus in 1763 for the masque Telemachus and received his doctorate in 1777...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Christopher Herrick
  Christopher Herrick
  -Early life:Born in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, Christopher Herrick was a boy chorister at St Paul's Cathedral and attended its choir school; he sang at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 and later that year went with the choir on a three-month tour of America which included a private...
  
   (Exeter)
• Max Kenworthy
  Max Kenworthy
  Max Kenworthy has performed recitals throughout the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand and has undertaken recordings, broadcasts and tours in pipe organ, piano, conducting and singing....
  
   (Brasenose)
• John Keys
  John Keys (organist)
  John Keys , is a well-known British organist who was brought up and educated in Chester. On completion of his schooling, he was assistant organist at Chester Cathedral for 3 years, before becoming an organ scholar at New College, Oxford. There he was taught by Gillian Weir and Nicholas Danby...
  
   (New College)
• Christopher Monckton
  Christopher J. Monckton
  Christopher John Monckton , is a conductor, singer, and organ recitalist and accompanist.The son of an eye surgeon, Monckton was educated at Gresham's School , and Magdalen College, Oxford...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Sydney Nicholson
  Sydney Nicholson
  Sir Sydney Hugo Nicholson was an English choir director, organist and composer, now chiefly remembered as the founder of the Royal School of Church Music . He was born in London and educated at Rugby School, New College, Oxford and the Royal College of Music...
  
   (New College)
• Walter Parratt
  Walter Parratt
  Sir Walter Parratt KCVO was an English organist and composer.-Biography:Born in Huddersfield, son of a parish organist, Parratt began to play the pipe organ from an early age, and held posts as an organist while still a child...
  
   (Magdalen and Wadham)
• Simon Preston
  Simon Preston
  Simon John Preston CBE is an English organist, conductor, and composer.- Early life :He attended the Canford School in Wimborne in Dorset. Originally a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, he studied the organ with C. H...
  
   (Christ Church and Magdalen)

Pianists

• Paul Crossley
  Paul Crossley
  Paul Crossley is a British pianist.Born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, his piano teacher was Fanny Waterman in Leeds. While a student at Mansfield College, Oxford, he was discovered by Olivier Messiaen and his wife Yvonne Loriod, who heard him play and immediately invited him to come to Paris to study...
  
   (Mansfield)
• Ian Pace
  Ian Pace
  Ian Pace is a British pianist.Pace studied at Chetham's School of Music, The Queen's College, Oxford and the Juilliard School in New York. His main teacher was the Hungarian pianist György Sándor....
  
   (The Queen's)
• Jean Redcliffe-Maud
  Jean Redcliffe-Maud
  Margaret Jean Redcliffe-Maud, Baroness Redcliffe-Maude, née Hamilton , was a British pianist.Jean Hamilton was educated at Somerville College, Oxford. She married John Maud, later to become Lord Redcliffe-Maud, on 20 June 1932 in Oxford...
  
   (Somerville)
• Peter Seivewright
  Peter Seivewright
  Peter Seivewright is a British pianist. After music studies at Oxford, he was a post-graduate student at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where he studied piano with Ryszard Bakst.-Work with Galuppi's sonatas:...
  
  
• Llŷr Williams
  Llyr Williams
  Llŷr Williams is a Welsh pianist.-Childhood:Llŷr Williams was born in 1976 in the village of Pentre Bychan in Wrexham, Wales....
  
   (The Queen's)

Singers

• John Mark Ainsley
  John Mark Ainsley
  John Mark Ainsley is an English lyric tenor. Known for his supple voice, Ainsley is particularly admired for his interpretations of baroque music and the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Robin Blaze
  Robin Blaze
  - Childhood and education :The son of a professional golfer Peter, Robin Blaze grew up in Shadwell, near Leeds and was educated at Leeds Grammar School, Uppingham School, and Magdalen College, Oxford....
  
   (Magdalen)
• Ian Bostridge
  Ian Bostridge
  Ian Bostridge CBE is an English tenor, well known for his performances as an opera singer and as a song recitalist.-Early life and education:...
  
   (Corpus Christi)
• James Bowman (New College)
• Susan Gritton
  Susan Gritton
  Susan Gritton is an English soprano.Susan Gritton was educated at the University of Oxford and the University of London, where she studied Botany....
  
  
• Emma Kirkby
  Emma Kirkby
  Dame Carolyn Emma Kirkby, DBE is an English soprano singer and one of the world's most renowned early music specialists. She attended Sherborne School For Girls in Dorset and was a classics student at Somerville College, Oxford, and an English teacher before developing a career as a soloist...
  
   (Somerville)
• Robert Lloyd
  Robert Lloyd (singer)
  Robert Andrew Lloyd CBE is an English bass singer.Lloyd was educated at Keble College, Oxford and studied in London with the baritone Otakar Kraus. He made his debut with University College Opera in 1969 as Don Fernando in Leonore, the early version of Fidelio...
  
   (Keble)
• Peter Pears
  Peter Pears
  Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears CBE was an English tenor who was knighted in 1978. His career was closely associated with the composer Edward Benjamin Britten....
  
   (Hertford)

Musicologists

• Barry Cooper (University)
• Edmund Fellowes
  Edmund Fellowes
  Edmund Horace Fellowes CH MVO , was a Church of England clergyman and musical scholar who became well known for his work in promoting the revival of sixteenth and seventeenth century English music.- Life and work :...
  
   (Oriel)
• Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
  Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
  Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood BMus, MPhil, Hon RAM is the Principal of the Royal Academy of Music in the United Kingdom.He studied at Milton Abbey School, then University of Toronto and Christ Church, Oxford...
  
   (Christ Church) Principal of the Royal Academy of Music 2008-
• Paul Hillier
  Paul Hillier
  Paul Douglas Hillier is a conductor, music director and baritone. He specializes in early music and contemporary art music, especially that by composers Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford and the Guildhall School of Music, beginning his professional career while a...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Nicola LeFanu
  Nicola LeFanu
  Nicola LeFanu is a British composer, academic, lecturer and director.-Life:Nicola LeFanu was born in England to William LeFanu and Elizabeth Maconchy . She studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford, before taking up a Harkness Fellowship at Harvard. In 1972 she won the Mendelssohn Scholarship...
  
   (St Hilda's)
• Robert Sherlaw Johnson
  Robert Sherlaw Johnson
  Robert Sherlaw Johnson , was a British composer, pianist and music scholar. Sherlaw Johnson was one of that group of post-war British musicians whose work reflected wider European interests in new ideas, techniques and aesthetics...
  
   (Worcester)
• Alan Tyson
  Alan Tyson
  Alan Walker Tyson was a British musicologist who specialized in studies of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven...
  
   (All Souls)

Administration

• Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead (Keble) Chief Executive Royal Opera House 2001-
• Nicholas Kenyon
  Nicholas Kenyon
  Sir Nicholas Roger Kenyon CBE is an English music administrator, editor and writer on music. He was responsible for the BBC Proms 1996-2007 following which he was appointed Managing Director of the Barbican Centre, Europe's largest multi-arts centre.-Education and career:After attending St Bede's...
  
   (Balliol) Contr Radio 3 1992-, Dir Proms 1996-2000, Contr Proms, Live Events & TV Classical Music 2000-
• Anthony Russell-Roberts
  Anthony Russell-Roberts
  Anthony de Villeneuve Russell-Roberts, CBE, MA is a British businessman and opera managerRussell-Roberts is the son of Francis Douglas Russell-Roberts and the pianist Edith Margaret Gertrudis Russell-Roberts, née Ashton...
  
   (New College) Administrative Director of the Royal Ballet 1983-

Didgeridoo

• Graham Wiggins
  Graham Wiggins
  Graham Wiggins is an American musician. He plays the didgeridoo, keyboards, melodica, sampler, and various percussion instruments with his group, the Boston, Massachusetts-based Dr. Didg. He holds a PhD in solid-state physics from Oxford University, where he earned his nickname while testing his...
  
  

Jazz

• Bill Ashton
  Bill Ashton (jazz musician)
  William Michael Allingham Ashton OBE is a British saxophonist and composer, best known for co-founding the London Schools’ Orchestra, now the National Youth Jazz Orchestra , of which he is Musical Director....
  
  
• Pat Fish (Patrick Huntrods)
  Pat Fish
  Pat Fish is an English musician best known for his work as a member of the band The Jazz Butcher. -Early career:...
  
   (Merton)
• Soweto Kinch
  Soweto Kinch
  Soweto Kinch is a British jazz alto saxophonist and rapper.Born in London, England to a Barbadian father, who is a playwright, and British-Jamaican mother, who is an actress, Kinch began playing saxophone at the age of nine after learning clarinet at Allfarthing Primary School, Wandsworth, SW London...
  
   (Hertford)

Country

• Kris Kristofferson
  Kris Kristofferson
  Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson is an American musician, actor, and writer. He is known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"...
  
   (Merton)

Folk

• June Tabor
  June Tabor
  June Tabor is an English folk singer.- Early years :June Tabor was inspired to sing by hearing Anne Briggs' EP Hazards of Love in 1965. "I went and locked myself in the bathroom for a fortnight and drove my mother mad. I learned the songs on that EP note for note, twiddle for twiddle. That's how I...
  
   (St Hugh's)

Rock and pop

• Mira Aroyo
  Mira Aroyo
  Mira Aroyo , born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1977, and now living in London, is a member of the electropop band Ladytron. She is also keyboardist, songwriter and producer. She writes and sings her songs for Ladytron in her native Bulgarian as well as in English....
  
  
• Edwin Congreave
  Foals (band)
  Foals are an English indie rock band from Oxford. They are currently signed to Transgressive Records in the UK and Sub Pop in the US. They released their debut album Antidotes on 24 March 2008 in the UK, and 8 April 2008 in the US...
  
  
• Myles MacInnes
  Mylo
  Myles MacInnes , better known by the stage name Mylo, is a Scottish electronic musician and record producer.-Career:...
  
   (Brasenose)
• Yannis Philippakis
  Foals (band)
  Foals are an English indie rock band from Oxford. They are currently signed to Transgressive Records in the UK and Sub Pop in the US. They released their debut album Antidotes on 24 March 2008 in the UK, and 8 April 2008 in the US...
  
  
• Mike Ratledge
  Mike Ratledge
  Michael Roland "Mike" Ratledge is a British musician. Ratledge was part of the Canterbury scene and a long-time member of Soft Machine.-Biography and career:...
  
   (University)
• Mr Hudson

Museum and Gallery Directors

• Robert Anderson
  Robert Anderson (museum director)
  Robert Geoffrey William Anderson is a British museum curator and chemist who was Director of the British Museum, London.Anderson studied at St John's College, Oxford University. He has held posts at the Royal Scottish Museum , the Science Museum, London, the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh...
  
   (St John's) Director British Museum 1992–2002
• Thomas P. Campbell
  Thomas P. Campbell
  Thomas P. Campbell, Ph.D. , is the ninth director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. After fourteen years as a curator in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, specializing in tapestries, he was elected Director and CEO on September 9, 2008...
  
   Director Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2009-
• Kenneth Clark, Baron Clark of Saltwood
  Kenneth Clark
  Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Baron Clark, OM, CH, KCB, FBA was a British author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the best-known art historians of his generation...
  
   (Trinity) Director National Gallery 1933–46, Surveyor King's Pictures 1934–44, Chairman Arts Council 1953–60
• Henry Ellis
  Henry Ellis (librarian)
  Sir Henry Ellis was an English librarian.He was born in London and educated at the Mercers' School and St John's College, Oxford, where he acted as an assistant at the Bodleian Library...
  
   (St John's) Principal Librarian British Museum 1827–56
• T. D. Kendrick
  T. D. Kendrick
  Sir Thomas Downing Kendrick KCB was a British archaeologist and art historian.Kendrick was born in Handsworth, a suburb of Birmingham, England, and educated at Charterhouse School and Oriel College, Oxford for a year before World War I, during which he was wounded, and rose to the rank of...
  
   (Oriel) Director and Principal Librarian British Museum 1950-59
• Frederic G. Kenyon
  Frederic G. Kenyon
  Sir Frederic George Kenyon GBE KCB TD FBA FSA was a British paleographer and biblical and classical scholar. He occupied from 1889 to 1931 a series of posts at the British Museum...
  
   (Magdalen) Director and Principal Librarian British Museum 1909-31
• Michael Levey
  Michael Levey
  Sir Michael Vincent Levey, LVO was a British art historian and was director of the National Gallery for thirteen years, from 1973 to 1986.-Biography:...
  
   (Exeter) Director National Gallery 1973–86
• Neil MacGregor
  Neil MacGregor
  Robert Neil MacGregor, OM, FSA is an art historian and museum director. He was the Editor of the Burlington Magazine from 1981 to 1987, the Director of the National Gallery, London, from 1987 to 2002, and was appointed Director of the British Museum in 2002...
  
   (New College) Director National Gallery 1987–2002, Director British Museum 2002–, Chairman World Collections 2008-
• Edward Maunde Thompson
  Edward Maunde Thompson
  Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, GCB was a British palaeographer and Principal Librarian and first Director of the British Museum. He is also noted for his study of William Shakespeare's handwriting in the manuscript of the play Sir Thomas More.-Biography:Thompson's father was Edward Thompson, Custos...
  
   (University) Principal Librarian British Museum 1888-98, Director and Principal Librarian 1898-1909
• Nicholas Penny
  Nicholas Penny
  Nicholas Penny, FSA is a British art historian. Since Spring 2008 he has been director of the National Gallery in London....
  
   (Balliol) Director National Gallery 2008-
• John Pope-Hennessy (Balliol) Director Victoria and Albert Museum 1967–73, Director and Principal Librarian British Museum 1974–76, Director 1976-79
• John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden
  John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden
  John Frederick Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, CBE was a British educationalist probably best remembered for chairing the Wolfenden report recommending the decriminalisation of homosexuality, which was published in 1957...
  
   (Magdalen) V-C Reading Univ 1950-63, Chmn Wolfenden Cttee 1954-57, Chmn Univ Grants Cttee 1963-68, Dir & Prin Lib Brit Mus 1969-74

Art and History of Art

• Peter Bales
  Peter Bales
  Peter Bales , English calligrapher, one of the inventors of shorthand writing, was born in London in 1547, and is described by Anthony Wood as a "most dexterous person in his profession, to the great wonder of scholars and others"...
  
   (Gloucester Hall)
• Wendy Beckett
  Wendy Beckett
  Sister Wendy Beckett is a South African-born British art expert, consecrated virgin and contemplative hermit who became a celebrity during the 1990s, presenting a series of acclaimed art history documentaries for the BBC.-Biography:...
  
   (St Anne's)
• Edward Burne-Jones
  Edward Burne-Jones
  Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked closely with William Morris on a wide range of decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, and Company...
  
   (Exeter)
• W. G. Collingwood
  W. G. Collingwood
  William Gershom Collingwood, was an author, artist, antiquary and Professor of Fine Arts at Reading University....
  
   (University)
• Vincent Cronin
  Vincent Cronin
  Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin, FRSL was a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer, best-known for his biographies of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon, as well as for his books on the Renaissance.Cronin was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire...
  
   (Trinity)
• Andrew Graham-Dixon
  Andrew Graham-Dixon
  Andrew Michael Graham-Dixon is a British art historian and broadcaster.-Education:Graham-Dixon was educated at the independent Westminster School and at Christ Church at the University of Oxford, where he read English...
  
  
• Robert Hewison
  Robert Hewison
  Robert Alwyn Petrie Hewison is a British cultural historian.He was educated at Bedford School, Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated BA in 1965, MA in 1970, MLitt in 1972, and DLitt in 1989.For most of his professional life he has made a living...
  
   (Brasenose)
• Bevis Hillier
  Bevis Hillier
  Bevis Hillier is an English art historian, author and journalist. He has written on Art Deco, and also a biography of Sir John Betjeman.-Life and work:...
  
   (Magdalen)
• Kurt Jackson
  Kurt Jackson
  Kurt Jackson is an English painter whose large canvases reflect a concern with natural history, ecology and environmental issues. Born in Blandford, Dorset, he developed an early interest in natural history and landscape. He studied zoology at St...
  
   (St Peter's)
• Martin Kemp
  Martin Kemp (art historian)
  Martin Kemp is Emeritus Research Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University. He has written and broadcast extensively on imagery in art and science from the Renaissance to the present day...
  
   (Trinity)
• Tom Phillips
  Tom Phillips (artist)
  Tom Phillips CBE R.A. is an English artist. He was born in London, where he continues to work. He is a painter, printmaker and collagist.-Life:...
  
   (St Catherine's)
• George Rickey
  George Rickey
  George Rickey was an American kinetic sculptor.Rickey was born on June 6, 1907 in South Bend, Indiana.-Life and work:...
  
   (Balliol)
• John Ruskin
  John Ruskin
  John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political...
  
   (Corpus Christi)
• Desmond Shawe-Taylor
  Desmond Shawe-Taylor
  Desmond Philip Shawe-Taylor LVO became Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures in 2005. He succeeded Christopher Lloyd on Lloyd's retirement.Shawe-Taylor is the son of Brian Newton Shawe-Taylor and Jocelyn Cecilia Shawe-Taylor...
  
   (University)

Architecture

• Edward James
  Edward James
  Edward William Frank James was a British poet known for his patronage of the surrealist art movement.-Early life and marriage:...
  
   (Christ Church)
• John Martin Robinson
  John Martin Robinson
  John Martin Robinson, FSA is a British architectural historian and officer of arms.He was born in Preston, Lancashire and educated at the Benedictine school at Fort Augustus, the University of St Andrews and matriculated to Oriel College, Oxford University for his DPhil in 1970...
  
  
• Sacheverell Sitwell (Balliol)
• Christopher Wren
  Christopher Wren
  Sir Christopher Wren FRS is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.He used to be accorded responsibility for rebuilding 51 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710...
  
   (Wadham and All Souls)
• Jack Diamond

Academic disciplines

This includes:

• Law
• Theology and the Study of Religions
• Historians
• Classicists, Byzantinists, Archaeologists
• Modern Languages
• Philosophers
• Economists
• Geography
• Anthropology and ethnography
• Sociology
• Politics, political philosophy, and international relations
• Asian studies
• Mathematicians and statisticians
• Scientists
  • Naturalists, botanists, and zoologists
  • Medicine
  • Psychologists, psychiatrists, and physiologists of the brain
  • Chemists
  • Physicists and astronomers
    • Astronomers Royal
    • Other physicists and astronomers
  • Computers, electronics, and robotics
  • Engineering and agriculture
  • Geology
  • Meteorology

Sports people, explorers and adventurers

Chefs and wine experts

• Oz Clarke
  Oz Clarke
  Robert "Oz" Clarke is a British wine writer, television presenter and broadcaster.-Biography:Clarke’s parents were a chest physician and a nursing sister. He was brought up near Canterbury with a brother and a sister. Clarke became a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral and subsequently won a choral...
  
   (Pembroke)
• Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
  Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
  Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a British celebrity chef, television personality, journalist, food writer and "real food" campaigner, known for his back-to-basics philosophy...
  
   (St Peter's)
• Nigella Lawson
  Nigella Lawson
  Nigella Lucy Lawson is an English food writer, journalist and broadcaster. Lawson is the daughter of Nigel Lawson, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Vanessa Salmon, whose family owned the J. Lyons and Co. empire...
  
   (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Jancis Robinson
  Jancis Robinson
  Jancis Mary Robinson OBE, MW is a British wine critic, journalist and editor of wine literature. She currently writes a weekly column for the Financial Times, and writes for her website jancisrobinson.com...
  
   (St Anne's)
• Rick Stein
  Rick Stein
  Christopher Richard "Rick" Stein OBE is an English chef, restaurateur and television presenter. He is currently the head chef and co-owner of "Rick Stein at Bannisters" at Mollymook, New South Wales, Australia, owns four restaurants in Padstow, a fish and chip shop in Falmouth, Cornwall and has...
  
   (New College)

See also

• List of Rhodes Scholars
• List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford
• University of Oxford undergraduate admissions statistics
  University of Oxford undergraduate admissions statistics
  Between 1990 and 2010 the number of undergraduate applicants to the University of Oxford increased by 76 percent from 9,742 to 17,144. In the face of this increase, over the same period the university has continued to accept roughly 3,200 undergraduates...
  
  
• List of Current Heads of Oxford University Colleges, Societies, and Halls

External links

• British Society for the History of Mathematics: Oxford individuals
• Famous Oxford Alumni
• Short Alumni List Published by Oxford