List of University of Oxford people in academic disciplines
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This is a list of people from the University of Oxford
in academic disciplines. Many were students at one (or more) of the colleges
of the University, and others held fellowships at a college.
This list forms part of a series of lists of people associated with the University of Oxford; for other lists, please see the main article List of University of Oxford people.
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...
in academic disciplines. Many were students at one (or more) of the 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...
of the University, and others held fellowships at a college.
This list forms part of a series of lists of people associated with the University of Oxford; for other lists, please see the main article List of University of Oxford people.
Law
- William Reynell AnsonWilliam Reynell AnsonSir William Reynell Anson, 3rd Baronet PC was a British jurist and Liberal Unionist politician.-Background and education:...
(Balliol and All Souls) Warden of All Souls 1881–1913, Member of Parliament 1899–1905 - Charles Arnold-Baker (formerly Wolfgang Charles Werner von Blumenthal)Charles Arnold-BakerCharles Arnold-Baker, OBE, born Wolfgang Charles Werner von Blumenthal was an English barrister , an academic and a historian. He was the author of the Companion to British History...
(Magdalen) - Andrew AshworthAndrew AshworthAndrew Ashworth CBE QC LLB PhD was the lead patent law examiner at St Johns Chambers Manchester and is a Vinerian Professor of English Law 2011-present at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of All Souls College, and Chairman of the Sentencing Advisory Panel...
(Worcester and All Souls) - Peter BirksPeter BirksPeter Birks QC was the Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford from 1989 until his death. He was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He earned an LLM at University College, London...
(Trinity, Brasenose, and All Souls) Hon QC 1995, President Society of Legal Scholars 2002–03 - John BehanJohn Clifford Valentine BehanSir John Clifford Valentine Behan was the second warden of Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and the first Victorian Rhodes Scholar....
(Hertford and University) Warden Trinity College, Melbourne 1918–46 - Kenneth BeaumontKenneth BeaumontMajor Kenneth Macdonald Beaumont CBE DSO was a British lawyer, Air Service Corps officer, and figure skater. He made a major contribution to the development of international aviation law.-Early life:...
Chairman International Civil Aviation Organisation 1946–57 (President Legal Committee 1954–57) - Francis BennionFrancis BennionFrancis Alan Roscoe Bennion is a barrister in the United Kingdom. He is the author of several leading UK legal texts, including in particular Bennion on Statutory Interpretation ....
(Balliol) Parliamentary Counsel 1953-65 and 1973–75, Lecturer University of Oxford 1984-2002 - William BlackstoneWilliam BlackstoneSir William Blackstone KC SL was an English jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century. He is most noted for writing the Commentaries on the Laws of England. Born into a middle class family in London, Blackstone was educated at Charterhouse School before matriculating at Pembroke...
(Pembroke, All Souls, and New Inn Hall) MP & QC 1761, first Vinerian Professor at Oxford - Paul-André CrépeauPaul-André CrépeauPaul-André Crépeau, was a Canadian legal academic who led the reforms of the Civil Code of Quebec and the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms....
Director Institute of Comparative Law McGill University 1974–84 - Ruth Deech, Baroness DeechRuth Deech, Baroness DeechRuth Lynn Deech, Baroness Deech, DBE is a British academic, lawyer and bioethicist, most noted for chairing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority , from 1994 to 2002...
(St Anne's) Chair HFEA 1994–2002, Gov BBC 2002–06, Independent Adjudicator for Higher Educn 2004– - A. V. DiceyA. V. Dicey- References :...
(Balliol) Professor of Law at Oxford and the LSE - Ronald DworkinRonald DworkinRonald Myles Dworkin, QC, FBA is an American philosopher and scholar of constitutional law. He is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University and Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, and has taught previously at Yale Law School and the...
(Magdalen and University) Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale, Oxford, & UCL - John EekelaarJohn EekelaarJohn Eekelaar was a law lecturer specialising in family law. In 2005 he retired from teaching after a forty-year career at Oxford University...
(Pembroke) expert in family law, Reader in Law University of Oxford 1991– - Malcolm EvansMalcolm Evans (jurist)Malcolm David Evans OBE is an English legal scholar. He is Professor of Public International Law and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law in the University of Bristol.He studied law at Regent's Park College, Oxford...
(Regent's Park) Prof Public International Law Bristol 99–, Hd of Law 03–05, Dean of Soc Sciences & Law 05– - Noah FeldmanNoah FeldmanNoah Feldman is an American author and professor of law at Harvard Law School.-Education and career:Feldman grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, where he attended the Maimonides School....
Professor of Law New York University School of Law - John FinnisJohn FinnisJohn Finnis , is an Australian legal scholar and philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of law. He is Professor of Law at University College, Oxford and at the University of Notre Dame, teaching jurisprudence, political theory, and constitutional law...
(University) Professor of Law at the Universities of Oxford and Notre Dame - Mark FreedlandMark FreedlandMark Freedland is professor of employment law at the University of Oxford and a fellow and tutor of St John's College.On 1 October 2005, he commenced a special Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in which he is working towards a re-framing of the law of personal work contracts in the context of...
(St John's) expert in employment law - John GardnerJohn Gardner (law)John Gardner is Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford and Fellow of University College, Oxford. He received his B.A., B.C.L., M.A., and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, where he has also been associated with New College , All Souls College , and Brasenose College...
(New College, All Souls, Brasenose, and University) Professor of Jurisprudence University of Oxford - Leslie GreenLeslie Green (philosopher)Leslie Green is a leading scholar in the analytic philosophy of law, or jurisprudence as it is often called by academic lawyers.Born in Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and educated at Queen's University, Canada, and at Nuffield College, Oxford, he completed his dissertation—which...
(Nuffield, Lincoln, Balliol) Prof of the Philosophy of Law Oxford, Prof of Law Osgoode Hall Law Sch, York Univ, Canada - H. L. A. HartH. L. A. HartHerbert Lionel Adolphus Hart was an influential legal philosopher of the 20th century. He was Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University and the Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. He authored The Concept of Law....
(New College, University, and Brasenose) Author of The Concept of Law (1961) - Sir William Searle Holdsworth, OM, KC, DCL, LL.D, FBA (St John's)
- Tony HonoréTony HonoréAnthony Maurice Honoré is a British lawyer and jurist, known for his work on ownership, causation and Roman law.Honoré was born in London but was brought up in South Africa. He served in the army during the Second World War and was severely wounded in the Battle of Alamein...
(New College, The Queen's and All Souls) Regius Prof Civil Law Oxford 1971–88, Hon QC, Bencher of Lincoln's Inn - Elena KaganElena KaganElena Kagan is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 7, 2010. Kagan is the Court's 112th justice and fourth female justice....
(Worcester) Dean Harvard Law Sch & Chas Hamilton Houston Prof of Law Harvard Univ 2003 (Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 2010-– - Neil MacCormickNeil MacCormickSir Neil MacCormick, QC, FBA, FRSE , or just Neil MacCormick, was a legal philosopher and Scottish politician. He was Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the University of Edinburgh from 1972 until 2008...
(Balliol) Regius Prof of Public Law & the Law of Nature & Nations Edinburgh 1972–2008, MEP 1999–2004 - Basil MarkesinisBasil MarkesinisSir Basil Markesinis QC, DCL, FBA is a scholar of law and Jamail Regents Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and was Professor of Common and Civil Law, University College London.-Early life and education :...
(St Antony's, Lady Margaret Hall, and Brasenose) Professor at Queen Mary, UCL, Oxford, & Texas (Austin) - Peter NorthPeter North (academic)Sir Peter Machin North, CBE QC FBA was Principal of Jesus College, Oxford from 1984–2005 and Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford, England from 1993–1997...
(Jesus) - Fidelis OditahFidelis OditahProfessor Fidelis Oditah, QC, SAN, LLB , MA, BCL, DPhil , is an English barrister, an authority on insolvency law, and a prospective Governor of Delta State in Nigeria.Fidelis Oditah was born in Nigeria in 1964....
(Magdalen and Merton) QC, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, gubernatorial candidate Delta State 2007 - Joseph RazJoseph RazJoseph Raz is a legal, moral and political philosopher. He is one of the most prominent advocates of legal positivism. He has spent most of his career as professor of philosophy of law and a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and simultaneously as professor of law at Columbia University Law...
(Nuffield and Balliol) sometime Professor of the Philosophy of Law University of Oxford - Richard SearbyRichard SearbyDr. Richard Henry Searby AO QC is an Australian lawyer, company director and academic.His father was Dr. Henry Searby, a founding member of the Royal Melbourne Hospital at Parkville and his mother, Mary Searby, was a philanthropist involved in community programs for the benefit of underprivileged...
Lecturer Univ of Melbourne 1961–72, QC 1971, Chancellor Deakin Univ 1997–2005 - Travers TwissTravers TwissSir Travers Twiss QC FRS was an English jurist.Twiss was the eldest son of the Rev. Robert Twiss. At University College, Oxford, he obtained a first-class degree in mathematics and a second in classics in 1830, and was elected a Fellow of his college, of which he was afterwards successively...
(University) Professor at Oxford & King's Coll London, author constitution of Congo Free State (1884) - Theodore TylorTheodore TylorSir Theodore Henry Tylor was a lawyer and international level chess player, despite being nearly blind. In 1965, he was knighted for his service to organisations for the blind...
(Balliol) Fellow & Tutor in Jurisprudence, international chess player, worked for blind people
Theology and the Study of Religions
- Marilyn McCord AdamsMarilyn McCord AdamsMarilyn McCord Adams is an American philosopher working in philosophy of religion, philosophical theology and medieval philosophy.-Family:Adams is the daughter of William Clark McCord and Wilmah Brown McCord...
(Christ Church) - Henry AirayHenry AirayHenry Airay , was an English Puritan preacher and author.-Biography:Airay was born at Kentmere, near Kendal, Westmorland. His date of birth is uncertain. His father was William Airay, a favored servant of Bernard Gilpin, "the apostle of the North"...
(St Edmund Hall and The Queen's) - James AlisonJames AlisonJames Alison is a Catholic theologian and author. He is noted for his work on gay issues and the application of René Girard's anthropological theory in theology....
(Blackfriars) priest, Order of Preachers 1981-95 - Karen ArmstrongKaren ArmstrongKaren Armstrong FRSL , is a British author and commentator who is the author of twelve books on comparative religion. A former Roman Catholic nun, she went from a conservative to a more liberal and mystical faith...
(St Anne's) - John BartonJohn Barton (theologian)The Revd Professor John Barton is the Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture. He is a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy and a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters...
(Oriel) Oriel and Laing Professor, Canon Theologian Winchester Cathl, member of Gen Synod - Gareth BennettGareth BennettGareth Vaughan Bennett , also known as Garry Bennett, was an Anglican priest and academic who committed suicide in the wake of media reactions to an anonymous preface he wrote for Crockford’s Clerical Directory....
(New College) - John BowkerJohn BowkerJohn Westerdale Bowker is a professor of religious studies who has taught at the universities of Cambridge, Lancaster, Pennsylvania and North Carolina State University...
(Worcester) Prof of RS Lancaster 1974-84, Trinity Coll Cambridge 1984-93, Gresham Prof of Divinity 1992-97 - George Granville BradleyGeorge Granville BradleyGeorge Granville Bradley was an English divine, scholar, and schoolteacher.-Life:George Bradley's father, Charles Bradley, was vicar of Glasbury, Brecon....
(University) Hdmaster of Marlborough Coll 1858-70, Dean of Westminster 1881-1902 - Reginald John CampbellReginald John CampbellReginald John Campbell , British Congregationalist divine, son of a United Free Methodist minister of Scottish descent, was born in London and educated at schools in Bolton and Nottingham, where his father successively removed, and in Belfast, the home of his grandfather.At an early age he taught...
(Christ Church) sometime minister of the City Temple - Edward CardwellEdward CardwellEdward Cardwell was an English theologian also noted for his contributions to the study of English church history. In addition to his scholarly work, he filled various administrative positions in the University of Oxford....
(Brasenose) - John Chapman (Christ Church) Abbot of Downside 1929-33
- William Robinson ClarkWilliam Robinson ClarkWilliam Robinson Clark FRSC was a Scottish-Canadian theologian. He was born in Daviot, Aberdeenshire, son of James Clark. Originally educated for the Congregationalist ministry at New College London, he later conformed to the Church of England. After graduating from King's College, Aberdeen MA...
(Hertford) - William ColeWilliam Cole (Puritan)William Cole was an English Puritan clergyman, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Dean of Lincoln.A Protestant refugee from Marian England, Cole returned on Elizabeth accession and was appointed President of Corpus Christi in 1568, a controversial appointment, since most of the...
(Corpus Christi) - Kenneth CracknellKenneth CracknellKenneth R. Cracknell is a British specialist in interfaith dialogue and the Christian theology of religions.Cracknell has written many articles and books on interfaith dialogue and other subjects, including Towards a New Relationship , Justice Courtesy and Love , An Introduction to World Methodism...
- Herbert DanbyHerbert DanbyHerbert Danby was an Anglican priest and writer who played a central role in the change of attitudes toward Judaism in the first half of the twentieth century.- Education :...
(Keble and Christ Church) - Douglas DaviesDouglas DaviesDouglas James Davies is Professor in the Study of Religion in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham. He is an authority in the history, theology and sociology of death. His fields of expertise also include anthropology, the study of religion, the rituals and beliefs...
- Christopher DawsonChristopher DawsonChristopher Henry Dawson was a British independent scholar, who wrote many books on cultural history and Christendom. Christopher H. Dawson has been called "the greatest English-speaking Catholic historian of the twentieth century".-Life:...
(Trinity) - John DayJohn Day (Old Testament scholar)John Day is an English Old Testament scholar. He is Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford. He is the editor of In search of pre-exilic Israel and wrote God's Conflict with the Dragon and the Sea. He is also Fellow, Tutor in Theology, and Dean of...
(Lady Margaret Hall) - Gregory DixGregory DixGeorge Eglinton Alston Dix was an English monk and priest of Nashdom Abbey, an Anglican Benedictine community. He was a noted liturgical scholar whose work had particular influence on the reform of Anglican liturgy in the mid-20th century.-Life:Dix was born in Woolwich...
(Merton and Keble) - C. H. DoddC. H. DoddCharles Harold Dodd was a Welsh New Testament scholar and influential Protestant theologian.He is known for promoting "realized eschatology", the belief that Jesus' references to the kingdom of God meant a present reality rather than a future apocalypse.-Life:Dodd was born in Wrexham,...
- David L. EdwardsDavid L. EdwardsDavid Lawrence Edwards OBE is a retired Anglican priest. He was the Dean of Norwich, Provost of Southwark and has been a prolific author.-Education:...
(Magdalen and All Souls) Dean of Norwich 1978-83, Provost of Southwark 1983-94 - Robert EllisRobert Ellis (academic)The Reverend Robert Anthony Ellis, MA, DPhil born Cardiff, Wales 24 August 1956, is the Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford, England.Robert Ellis was educated at Regent's Park College, Oxford and received his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1984. He is an ordained minister in the...
(Regent's Park) - Mark ElvinsMark ElvinsMark Turnham Elvins, OFMCap, was Warden of Greyfriars, Oxford until its closure in 2008.- Biography :Mark Turnham Elvins was born in 1939 at Whitstable, the son of an Anglican clergyman who had been Rector of St Mary in the Castle, Dover....
(Greyfriars) - Austin FarrerAustin FarrerAustin Marsden Farrer was an English theologian and philosopher. His activity in philosophy, theology, and spirituality lead many to consider him the outstanding figure of 20th century Anglicanism.-Life:...
(Balliol, St Edmund Hall, Trinity, and Keble) - John FellJohn Fell (clergyman)John Fell was an English churchman and influential academic. He served as Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and later concomitantly as Bishop of Oxford.-Education:...
(Christ Church) - Paul S. Fiddes (St Peter's and Regent's Park)
- Richard FiddesRichard FiddesRichard Fiddes was an English Anglican priest and historian.-Life:He was born at Hunmanby and educated at Oxford University. He took orders, and obtained the living of Halsham in Holderness in 1696...
- Richard FinnRichard FinnThe Very Reverend Richard Damian Finn, OP is Regent of Blackfriars, Oxford.Richard Finn was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge...
(Corpus Christi) - John FoxeJohn FoxeJohn Foxe was an English historian and martyrologist, the author of what is popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, , an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history but emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the fourteenth century through the...
(Brasenose and Magdalen) - Richard Hurrell FroudeRichard Hurrell FroudeRichard Hurrell Froude was an Anglican priest and an early leader of the Oxford Movement.-Life:He was the son of Archdeacon R. H...
(Oriel) - Paul Gifford
- Timothy GorringeTimothy GorringeThe Reverend Professor Timothy Jervis Gorringe is St Luke's Professor of Theological Studies in the University of Exeter, England.Born in 1946, Timothy Gorringe was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and Sarum Theological College...
(St Edmund Hall and St John's) St Luke's Professor of Theological Studies University of Exeter 1998- - Renn Dickson HampdenRenn Dickson HampdenRenn Dickson Hampden , was an English Anglican clergyman whose selection as Bishop of Hereford formed a minor cause celebre in Victorian religious controversies.-Biography:...
(Oriel, St Mary Hall, and Christ Church) bishop of Hereford 1847-68 - Daphne HampsonDaphne HampsonMargaret Daphne Hampson is a British theologian. Educated at Oxford and at Harvard, she held a personal Chair in 'Post-Christian Thought' at the University of St Andrews. Hampson's distinctive theological position has both gained her notoriety and been widely influential...
- Tom HarpurTom HarpurThomas William Harpur is a Canadian author, broadcaster, columnist and theologian. An ordained priest, he is a proponent of the Christ myth theory, the idea that Jesus did not exist but is a fictional or mythological figure...
- James HerveyJames HerveyJames Hervey was an English clergyman and writer.-Life:He was born at Hardingstone, near Northampton, and was educated at the grammar school of Northampton, and at Lincoln College, Oxford. Here he came under the influence of John Wesley and the Oxford Methodists, especially since he was a member...
(Lincoln) - George HickesGeorge HickesGeorge Hickes was an English divine and scholar.-Biography:Hickes was born at Newsham, near Thirsk, Yorkshire, in 1642...
(St John's, Lincoln, Magdalen College, Magdalen Hall) dean of Worcester 1683-88, bp of Thetford 1694 - Leonard HodgsonLeonard HodgsonLeonard Hodgson was an Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, historian of the early Church and Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford from 1944 to 1958.-Early life :...
(Hertford, St Edmund Hall, Magdalen, Christ Church) Regius Professor of DivinityRegius Professor of DivinityThe Regius Professorship of Divinity is one of the oldest and most prestigious of the professorships at the University of Oxford and at the University of Cambridge.Both chairs were founded by Henry VIII...
1944-1958 - Humphrey HodyHumphrey HodyHumphrey Hody was an English scholar and theologian.-Life:He was born at Odcombe in Somerset in 1659. In 1676 he entered Wadham College, Oxford, of which he became a fellow in 1685...
(Wadham) - Henry Scott HollandHenry Scott HollandHenry Scott Holland was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He was also a canon of Christ Church, Oxford.-Family and education:...
(Christ Church) - S. H. HookeS. H. HookeSamuel Henry Hooke was an English scholar writing on comparative religion. He is known for his translation of the Bible into Basic English.He was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. He was educated at St...
(Jesus) - Richard Hooker (Corpus Christi)
- Lawrence HumphreyLawrence HumphreyLawrence Humphrey was an English theologian, who was president of Magdalen College, Oxford, and dean successively of Gloucester and Winchester.-Biography:...
(Magdalen) - William InceWilliam Ince (theologian)William Ince was a British theologian.Ince was educated at King's College School and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in Literae Humaniores ....
(Lincoln, Exeter, Christ Church) - E. O. JamesE. O. JamesThe Reverend Professor Edwin Oliver James was an anthropologist in the field of comparative religion. He was Professor Emeritus of the History and Philosophy of Religion in the University of London, Fellow of University College London and Fellow of King's College London...
(Exeter) - David JasperDavid JasperDavid Jasper is a theologian, currently Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.-Publications :*Coleridge as Poet and Religious Thinker, *The New Testament and the Literary Imagination,...
(St Stephen's House) - Jerome of PragueJerome of PragueJerome of Prague was one of the chief followers and most devoted friends of John Hus.-Biography:...
- Jeffrey JohnJeffrey JohnJeffrey Philip Hywel John SCP is a Church of England priest and the current Dean of St Albans. He made headlines in 2003 when he was the first person to have openly been in a same-sex relationship to be nominated as a Church of England bishop...
(Hertford, St Stephen's, Brasenose, Magdalen) Dean of St Albans 2003- - John KebleJohn KebleJohn Keble was an English churchman and poet, one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, and gave his name to Keble College, Oxford.-Early life:...
(Christ Church) - Fergus Kerr (Blackfriars)
- Andrew LinzeyAndrew LinzeyAndrew Linzey is an Anglican priest, theologian, author, and prominent figure in the Christian vegetarian movement. He is a member of the Faculty of Theology in the University of Oxford and held the world’s first academic post in Ethics, Theology and Animal Welfare — the Bede Jarret Senior Research...
(Blackfriars) - John LoweDean John LoweThe Very Reverend Professor John Lowe was Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, England and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford .-Life:...
(Christ Church) - Herbert McCabeHerbert McCabeHerbert McCabe was an English Dominican priest, theologian and philosopher, who was born in Middlesbrough in the North Riding of Yorkshire. After studying chemistry and philosophy at Manchester University, he joined the Dominicans in 1949, where under Victor White he began his life-long study of...
(Blackfriars) - Diarmaid MacCullochDiarmaid MacCullochDiarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch FBA, FSA, FR Hist S is Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford...
(St Cross) - Alister McGrathAlister McGrathAlister Edgar McGrath is an Anglican priest, theologian, and Christian apologist, currently Professor of Theology, Ministry, and Education at Kings College London and Head of the Centre for Theology, Religion and Culture...
(Merton, Wycliffe Hall, and Harris Manchester) - John MacquarrieJohn MacquarrieJohn Macquarrie FBA TD was a Scottish theologian and philosopher, the author of Principles of Christian Theology and Jesus Christ in Modern Thought...
(Christ Church) - Adam MarshAdam MarshAdam Marsh was an English Franciscan, scholar and theologian.-Biography:He was born about 1200 in the diocese of Bath, and educated at Oxford under the famous Grosseteste....
(Greyfriars) - Peter Martyr Vermigli (Regius Professor of Divinity)
- Geoffrey of MonmouthGeoffrey of MonmouthGeoffrey of Monmouth was a cleric and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur...
- Max MüllerMax MüllerFriedrich Max Müller , more regularly known as Max Müller, was a German philologist and Orientalist, one of the founders of the western academic field of Indian studies and the discipline of comparative religion...
(Christ Church and All Souls) - Oliver O'DonovanOliver O'DonovanOliver O'Donovan FBA FRSE is a scholar in the field of Christian ethics. He has made contributions to political theology, both contemporary and historical.-Life:...
(Christ Church and Wycliffe Hall) - J. I. PackerJ. I. PackerJames Innell Packer is a British-born Canadian Christian theologian in the low church Anglican and Reformed traditions. He currently serves as the Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia...
(Corpus Christi and Wycliffe Hall) - Peter PaynePeter PaynePeter Payne was an English theologian, diplomat, Lollard and Taborite, the son of a Frenchman by an English wife, he was born at Hough-on-the-Hill near Grantham....
(St Edmund Hall) - Robert Payne Smith (Christ Church) Dean of Canterbury 1871-95
- Arthur PeacockeArthur PeacockeThe Reverend Canon Arthur Robert Peacocke MBE was a British theologian and biochemist.-Biography:Arthur Robert Peacocke was born at Watford in on 29 November 1924...
(Exeter, St Peter's and Christ Church) - Edward Pusey (Christ Church)
- Timothy RadcliffeTimothy RadcliffeTimothy Radcliffe, OP is a Catholic priest and Dominican friar of the English Province, and former Master of the Order of Preachers from 1992-2001...
(Blackfriars) - William SalesburyWilliam SalesburyWilliam Salesbury also Salusbury was the leading Welsh scholar of the Renaissance and the principal translator of the 1567 Welsh New Testament.Salesbury was born in about 1520 in the parish of Llansannan, Conwy...
- Jane ShawJane ShawThe Very Revd Dr Jane Alison Shaw is Dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, a British Anglican priest and scholar.Shaw read Modern History at Regent's Park College, Oxford , and Theology at Harvard University , and completed a PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley...
(Regent's Park and New College) - Richard Smyth (Merton, Christ Church, and St Alban Hall)
- Vincent StrudwickVincent Strudwick (academic)Vincent Noel Harold Strudwick is a British theologian and educationalist. His areas of expertise include sixteenth-century English history and the ecclesiology of Richard Hooker....
(Kellogg) - Iain TorranceIain TorranceIain Richard Torrance is President of Princeton Theological Seminary and a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. He is married to Morag Ann , whom he met while they were students at the University of St Andrews, and they have a son, Hew, and a daughter,...
(Oriel) Moderator Gen Assembly Church of Scotland 2003-4, Pres Princeton Theological Seminary 2004- - John TrevisaJohn TrevisaJohn Trevisa , was a Cornish writer and translator.Trevisa was born at Trevessa in the parish of St Enoder in mid-Cornwall, and was a native Cornish speaker...
(The Queen's) - William TyndaleWilliam TyndaleWilliam Tyndale was an English scholar and translator who became a leading figure in Protestant reformism towards the end of his life. He was influenced by the work of Desiderius Erasmus, who made the Greek New Testament available in Europe, and by Martin Luther...
(Hertford) - Richard UllerstonRichard UllerstonRichard Ullerston was born in the Duchy of Lancaster, England, and died in August or September, 1423.Having been ordained priest in December, 1383, he became fellow of Queen's College, Oxford , holding office in the college, and proceeding to doctor of divinity and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford...
(The Queen's) - Henry Wace (Brasenose)
- William WallWilliam Wall (theologian)William Wall was a British priest in the Church of England who wrote extensively on the doctrine of infant baptism. He was generally an apologist for the English church and sought to maintain peace between it and the Anabaptists.He was born in Kent, got his BA from Queen's College, Oxford in 1667...
(The Queen's) - Henry WansbroughHenry WansbroughThe Very Reverend Dom Henry Wansbrough, OSB, MA , STL , LSS , is a biblical scholar and a monk of Ampleforth Abbey in North Yorkshire, England....
(St Benet's) Pontifical Biblical Commission 1996-, Prior of Norwich 2004- - Keith WardKeith WardKeith Ward is a British cleric, philosopher, theologian and scholar. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an ordained priest of the Church of England. He was a canon of Christ Church, Oxford until 2003...
(Linacre and Christ Church) - William George WardWilliam George WardWilliam George Ward was an English Roman Catholic theologian and mathematician whose career illustrates the development of religious opinion at a time of crisis in the history of English religious thought....
(Christ Church and Lincoln) - H. Wheeler RobinsonH. Wheeler RobinsonThe Reverend Henry Wheeler Robinson, known universally as H. Wheeler Robinson, was born on 7 February 1872 at Northampton, United Kingdom and died on 12 May 1945 in Oxford, United Kingdom.-Career:H...
(Mansfield and Regent's Park) - Vernon WhiteVernon White (theologian)Vernon Philip White is a British Anglican priest and theological scholar.White was born in south-east London in 1953. After leaving school he spent a year undertaking Voluntary Service Overseas in Africa. He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge and Oriel College, Oxford...
(Oriel and Wycliffe Hall) - Maurice WilesMaurice WilesMaurice Frank Wiles was a Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University for 21 years, from 1970 to 1991.-Miracles:...
(Christ Church) - William of AlnwickWilliam of AlnwickWilliam of Alnwick was a Franciscan friar and theologian, and bishop of Giovinazzo, who took his name from Alnwick in Northumberland....
- William of WareWilliam of WareWilliam of Ware was a Franciscan friar and theologian, born at Ware in Hertfordshire. He almost certainly studied at Oxford University and lectured on the Sentences of Pierre Lombard there, but he is not listed among the Oxford masters...
- John WilliamsJohn Williams (archdeacon)John Williams , was an antiquary and Anglican priest. Born in Llangynhafal, Denbighshire Wales in 1811, he graduated from Jesus College, Oxford in 1835 to become the Anglican curate of Llanfor, Merionethshire, where he married Elizabeth Lloyd Williams...
(Jesus) - John Wyclif (Balliol)
- Robert Charles ZaehnerRobert Charles ZaehnerRobert Charles Zaehner was a British academic who specialised in Eastern religions. He was also an intelligence officer.-Life:Born on 8 April 1913 in Sevenoaks, Kent, the son of Swiss immigrants to England, Zaehner was educated nearby at Tonbridge School...
(Christ Church)
Historians
- Harold ActonHarold ActonSir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton CBE was a British writer, scholar and dilettante perhaps most famous for being wrongly believed to have inspired the character of "Anthony Blanche" in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited...
(Christ Church) - Anne ApplebaumAnne ApplebaumAnne Elizabeth Applebaum is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She has been an editor at The Economist, and a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post...
(St Antony's) - Timothy Garton AshTimothy Garton AshTimothy Garton Ash is a British historian, author and commentator. He is currently serving as Professor of European Studies at Oxford University. Much of his work has been concerned with the late modern and contemporary history of Central and Eastern Europe...
(Exeter and St Antony's) - Richard J. C. AtkinsonRichard J. C. AtkinsonRichard John Copland Atkinson CBE was a British prehistorian and archaeologist.-Biography:He was born in Evershot, Dorset and went to Sherborne School and then Magdalen College, Oxford, reading PPE...
(Magdalen) - Geoffrey BarracloughGeoffrey BarracloughGeoffrey Barraclough was a British historian, known as a medievalistand historian of Germany.He was educated at Bootham School in York and at Bradford Grammar School...
(All Souls) - Max Beloff, Baron BeloffMax Beloff, Baron BeloffMax Beloff, Baron Beloff was a British historian and Conservative peer. From 1974 to 1979 he was principal of the University College of Buckingham, now the University of Buckingham.-Early life:...
(Corpus Christi, Nuffield, All Souls, and St Antony's) - Mary BennettMary BennettMary Letitia Somerville Bennett was a British academic, best known for her tenure as Principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford between 1965 and 1980....
(Somerville and St Hilda's) - Robert Blake, Baron BlakeRobert Blake, Baron BlakeRobert Norman William Blake, Baron Blake was an English historian. He is best known for his 1966 biography of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, and for The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill, which grew out of his 1968 Ford lectures...
(Christ Church) - Brian BondBrian BondBrian James Bond is a British military historian and professor emeritus of military history at King's College London.-Early life and education:...
(Worcester) - Daniel J. BoorstinDaniel J. BoorstinDaniel Joseph Boorstin was an American historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1975 until 1987.- Biography:...
(Balliol) - Asa Briggs, Baron BriggsAsa Briggs, Baron BriggsAsa Briggs, Baron Briggs is a British historian, one of the most respected historians who has written on the Victorian era. In particular, his trilogy, Victorian People, Victorian Cities, and Victorian Things made a lasting mark on how historians view the nineteenth century...
(Nuffield and Worcester) - Archie BrownArchie BrownArchibald Haworth Brown CMG, FBA, commonly known as Archie Brown , is a British political scientist and historian. In 2005, he became Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University and an Emeritus Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford, where he was a Professor of Politics and Director of St....
(St Antony's) - Alan Bullock, Lord Bullock of LeafieldAlan BullockAlan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock , was a British historian, who wrote an influential biography of Adolf Hitler and many other works.-Early life and career:...
(New College and St Catherine's) - Colin BundyColin BundyProfessor Colin James Bundy is a South African historian and former Principal of Green Templeton College, Oxford.Professor Bundy was an influential member of a generation of historians who substantially revised understanding of South African history...
(Merton, St Antony's, Kellogg, and Green) - Montagu BurrowsMontagu BurrowsMontagu Burrows was an officer in the Royal Navy and subsequently the first Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford University...
(All Souls) - Richard Carew (Christ Church)
- Humphrey CarpenterHumphrey CarpenterHumphrey William Bouverie Carpenter was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster.-Biography:...
(Keble) - Sir Raymond CarrRaymond CarrSir 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) - Allan Chapman (Wadham)
- George ClarkGeorge Clark (historian)Sir George Norman Clark was a 20th century English historian. Educated at Manchester Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, he became the inaugural Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford in 1931 , a post he held until 1943...
(Balliol, All Souls, and Oriel) - Robert ConquestRobert ConquestGeorge Robert Ackworth Conquest CMG is a British historian who became a well-known writer and researcher on the Soviet Union with the publication in 1968 of The Great Terror, an account of Stalin's purges of the 1930s...
(Magdalen) - Gordon A. CraigGordon A. CraigGordon Alexander Craig was a Scottish-American historian of German history and of diplomatic history.-Early life:...
(Balliol) - Mandell CreightonMandell CreightonMandell Creighton , was a British historian and a bishop of the Church of England. A scholar of the Renaissance papacy, Creighton was the first occupant of the Dixie Chair of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, a professorship that was established around the time that the study...
(Merton) - Vincent CroninVincent CroninVincent 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) - Robert DarntonRobert DarntonRobert Darnton is an American cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on 18th-century France.-Life:He graduated from Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a Ph.D. in history from Oxford in 1964, where he studied with Richard Cobb,...
- Sir Rees DaviesRees DaviesSir Robert Rees Davies CBE , was a noted Welsh historian.He was born in Merionethshire, and educated at Bala grammar school. He was bilingual in Welsh and English. He received a First in his degree from University College, London, where he later returned as a lecturer...
(All Souls) - H. W. C. DavisHenry William Carless DavisHenry William Carless Davis, CBE, FBA was a British historian, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, and Oxford Regius Professor of Modern History.-Early career:...
(Balliol, All Souls, New Coll, Oriel) Ed DNB 1919-28, Prof History Manchester 1921-25, Oxford 1925-28 - R. H. C. DavisRalph Henry Carless DavisRalph Henry Carless Davis , always known publicly as R. H. C. Davis, was a British historian specialising in the European Middle Ages...
(Balliol and Merton) Prof of Medieval History Birmingham University 1970-84 - William DeakinWilliam DeakinFrederick William Dampier Deakin, Sir William Deakin was a historian, World War II veteran, and literary assistant to Winston Churchill....
(Christ Church) - Michael DuffyMichael Duffy (historian)Dr. Michael Duffy is a naval historian, specialising in the Napoleonic war period. He is Reader in British History and Director of the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies at the University of Exeter.-Academic career:...
- John ElliottJohn Huxtable ElliottSir John Huxtable Elliott, FBA , who normally publishes as J.H. Elliott, is an eminent historian, Regius Professor Emeritus in the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge....
(Oriel) - Robert EnsorRobert EnsorSir Robert Charles Kirkwood Ensor was a British writer, poet, journalist, liberal intellectual and historian. He is famous for his extremely popular volume of the Oxford History of England, covering the years 1870 to 1914. Originally the final volume, Ensor's book has sold more copies than any...
(Balliol and Corpus Christi) - Richard J. EvansRichard J. EvansRichard John Evans is a British academic and historian, prominently known for his history of Germany.-Life:Evans was born in London, of Welsh parentage, and is now Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and President of Wolfson College...
(Jesus and St Antony's) Regius Professor of Modern History and Chairman of the Faculty of History in the University of Cambridge - Robert EvansRobert John Weston EvansProfessor Robert John Weston Evans FLSW FBA is a historian, whose speciality is the post-medieval history of Central and Eastern Europe. He was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham and Jesus College, Cambridge. Evans is Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, and a...
(Oriel) - Cyril FallsCyril FallsCyril Bentham Falls CBE was a military historian noted for his work on the First World War. He was born in Dublin and died in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey....
(All Souls) - Keith FeilingKeith FeilingSir Keith Grahame Feiling was Chichele Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford, 1946–1950. He was noted for his conservative interpretation of the past, showing an empire-oriented ideology in defence of hierarchical authority, paternalism, deference, the monarchy, Church, family,...
(Balliol, Christ Church, and All Souls) - Niall FergusonNiall FergusonNiall Campbell Douglas Ferguson is a British historian. His specialty is financial and economic history, particularly hyperinflation and the bond markets, as well as the history of colonialism.....
(Magdalen) - Charles Harding FirthCharles Harding FirthSir Charles Harding Firth was a British historian.Born in Sheffield, he was educated at Clifton College and at Balliol College, Oxford...
(Balliol, Pembroke, and All Souls) - Herbert FisherHerbert FisherHerbert Albert Laurens Fisher OM, FRS, PC was an English historian, educator, and Liberal politician. He served as President of the Board of Education in David Lloyd George's 1916 to 1922 coalition government....
(New College) Member of Parliament 1916-26 - Eric FonerEric FonerEric Foner is an American historian. On the faculty of the Department of History at Columbia University since 1982, he writes extensively on political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, Reconstruction, and historiography...
(Oriel) - Amanda ForemanAmanda Foreman (biographer)Amanda Lucy Foreman is a British/American biographer and historian.-Family:Her father was the renowned screenwriter and film producer Carl Foreman who had to move to England in order to work after being blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the McCarthyism of the 1950s...
(Lady Margaret Hall) - Lady Antonia Fraser (Lady Margaret Hall)
- Sir Lawrence FreedmanLawrence FreedmanSir Lawrence David Freedman, KCMG, CBE, PC, FBA, FKC is Professor of War Studies at King's College London, and was a foreign policy adviser to Tony Blair...
(Nuffield) - Edward Augustus FreemanEdward Augustus FreemanEdward Augustus Freeman was an English historian. His reputation as a historian rests largely on his History of the Norman Conquest , his longest completed book...
(Trinity) - James Anthony FroudeJames Anthony FroudeJames Anthony Froude , 23 April 1818–20 October 1894, was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergyman, but doubts about the doctrines of the Anglican church,...
(Oriel and Exeter) - Thomas GaisfordThomas GaisfordThomas Gaisford was an English classical scholar.He was born at Iford Manor, Wiltshire, and entered the University of Oxford in 1797, becoming successively student and tutor of Christ Church. In 1811, he was appointed Regius Professor of Greek in the University...
(Christ Church) - Henry de Beltgens GibbinsHenry de Beltgens GibbinsHenry de Beltgens Gibbins was a popular historian of 19th century England whose books were bestsellers in the late Victorian period; his Industry in England went to ten editions over fifteen years, and was published internationally....
(Wadham) - N. H. GibbsN. H. GibbsNorman Henry Gibbs was Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford University for 24 years from 1953 to 1977, the longest tenure of all who have held the chair since its establishment in 1909.-Education and early career:Gibbs was an Open Exhibitioner at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1928,...
(Magdalen, Merton, and All Souls) - Robert GildeaRobert GildeaRobert Nigel Gildea is professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford and is the author of several influential books on 20th century French history. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, before attending St Antony's for a D.Phil under the supervision of Theodore Zeldin. His D.Phil...
- Lawrence GoldmanLawrence GoldmanLawrence Goldman is an historian and current editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He has an M.A. from the University of Oxford and a M.A. and PhD. from University of Cambridge...
(St Peter's) Editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004- - John HabakkukJohn HabakkukSir John Habakkuk was a British economic historian.-Biography:Habakkuk was born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, the son of Evan and Anne Habakkuk. He was named "Hrothgar" after Hroðgar in Beowulf, which his father was reading at the time of his birth...
(All Souls and Jesus) - Irfan HabibIrfan HabibIrfan Habib is an Indian Marxist historian, a former Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research and a Padma Bhushan awardee. He is a Professor Emeritus at Aligarh Muslim University. He has served in the Indian History Congress for many years. Irfan Habib and R.S...
(New College) - Keith HancockKeith HancockSir Keith Hancock KBE was an Australian historian.He was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of Archdeacon William Hancock. At the age of nine, he won the Royal Humane Society's medal for rescuing another child from drowning in the Mitchell River. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School...
(Balliol and All Souls) - Clarence H. HaringClarence H. HaringClarence Henry Haring was an important historian of Latin America and the pioneer who initiated the study of South American colonial institutions among scholars in the United States.-Early life and education:The son of a businessman, Henry Getman Haring, and Amelia Stoneback, Clarence...
(New) - John HattendorfJohn HattendorfJohn Brewster Hattendorf is an American naval historian. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of more than forty books on British and American maritime history and naval warfare. In 2005, the U.S...
(Pembroke) - Peter HeatherPeter HeatherPeter Heather is a historian of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, currently Professor of Medieval History at King's College London. He has held appointments at University College London and Yale University and was Fellow and Tutor in Medieval History at Worcester College, Oxford until...
(New College and Worcester) - Peter HeylinPeter HeylinPeter Heylin or Heylyn was an English ecclesiastic and author of many polemical, historical, political and theological tracts. He incorporated his political concepts into his geographical books Microcosmus in 1621 and Cosmographie .-Life:He was born in Burford, Oxfordshire, the son of Henry Heylyn...
(St John's) - Christopher HibbertChristopher HibbertChristopher Hibbert, MC, FRSL, FRGS was an English writer, historian and biographer. He has been called "a pearl of biographers" and "probably the most widely-read popular historian of our time and undoubtedly one of the most prolific"...
(Oriel) - Christopher HillChristopher Hill (historian)John Edward Christopher Hill , usually known simply as Christopher Hill, was an English Marxist historian and author of textbooks....
(Balliol) - George HolmesGeorge Holmes (professor)George Arthur Holmes FBA was Chichele Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1989-94.-Family, early life, and education:...
(All Souls) - Albert HouraniAlbert Hourani-Life and career:Hourani was born in Manchester, England, the son of Soumaya Rassi and Fadlo Issa Hourani, immigrants from Marjeyoun in what is now South Lebanon. His brothers were George Hourani and Cecil Hourani. His family had converted from Greek Orthodoxy...
(Magdalen and St Antony's) - Michael HowardMichael Howard (historian)Sir Michael Eliot Howard, OM, CH, CBE, MC, FBA is a British military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, and Robert A...
(Christ Church, Oriel, and All Souls) - Clay S. JenkinsonClay S. JenkinsonClay Straus Jenkinson is an American humanities Rhodes scholar, Danforth Scholar, and author.-Life:...
(University) - Henry KamenHenry KamenHenry A. Kamen is a British historian born in Rangoon on Oct 4. 1936. He studied at the University of Oxford, earning his doctorate at St. Antony's College. He subsequently taught at the University of Warwick and various universities in Spain. In 1970, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal...
- Roderick KedwardRoderick Kedward (historian)Harry Roderick Kedward is a British historian.-Biography:Born in March 1937 at Hawkhurst, Kent, Kedward spent his early life in Goldthorpe , Tenterden and in Bath where he obtained a scholarship to attend Kingswood School....
(St Antony's) - Elspeth KennedyElspeth KennedyElspeth Mary Kennedy, MA, DPhil, FSA was a British academic and a prominent medievalist.-Early life and education:...
(Somerville and St Hilda's) - Paul KennedyPaul KennedyPaul Michael Kennedy CBE, FBA , is a British historian at Yale University specialising in the history of international relations, economic power and grand strategy. He has published prominent books on the history of British foreign policy and Great Power struggles...
(St Antony's) - Walid KhalidiWalid KhalidiWalid Khalidi is an Oxford University-educated Palestinian historian who has written extensively on the Palestinian exodus. He is General Secretary and co-founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies, established in Beirut in December 1963 as an independent research and publishing center...
- Alan KreiderAlan KreiderAlan Kreider is Professor of Church History and Mission at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary. His main interests are mission, worship, peace, and ecclesiastical history...
(Regent's Park) - John La Nauze
- John LandersJohn LandersJohn Maxwell Landers was Principal of Hertford College, Oxford until September 2011.Landers was educated at Hertford College, Oxford and Churchill College, Cambridge...
(Hertford and All Souls) - Paul LangfordPaul LangfordProfessor Paul Langford is a British historian, currently Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.Educated at Monmouth School and Hertford College, Oxford, he was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in modern history at Lincoln College in 1969, becoming a tutorial fellow in 1970...
(Hertford and Lincoln) - Frances LannonFrances LannonDr Frances Lannon, FRHS is a British academic and educator. She is Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall and at St Antony's College...
(Lady Margaret Hall) - Peter L'EstrangePeter L'EstrangePeter John L'Estrange, AO, is an Australian Jesuit priest and historian. He was the Master of Campion Hall at the University of Oxford in England until 2008.-Career:...
(Campion Hall) - Barbara LevickBarbara LevickBarbara M. Levick is a British historian, specializing in ancient history. She was educated at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and, since 1959, has been a Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford...
(St Hugh's and St Hilda's) - Colin Lucas (Lincoln)
- Roderick MacFarquharRoderick MacFarquharRoderick Lemonde MacFarquhar is a Harvard University professor and China specialist, British politician, newspaper and television journalist and academic orientalist...
(Keble) Member of Parliament 1974-79 - Piers MackesyPiers MackesyPiers Gerald Mackesy is a British military historian who taught at the University of Oxford.-Early life and education:...
(Oriel, Christ Church, and Pembroke) - Margaret MacMillanMargaret MacMillanMargaret Olwen MacMillan, OC is a historian and professor at the University of Oxford, where she is Warden of St. Antony's College. She is former provost of Trinity College and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously, at Ryerson University...
(St. Antony's) - Robert K. MassieRobert K. MassieRobert Kinloch Massie III is an American historian, author, Pulitzer Prize recipient. He has devoted much of his career to studying the House of Romanov, Russia's royal family from 1613-1917.-Biography:...
- John MastermanJohn Cecil MastermanSir John Cecil Masterman was a noted academic, sportsman and author. However, he was best known as chairman of the Twenty Committee, which during World War II ran the Double Cross System, the scheme that controlled double agents in Britain.-Academic background:Masterman was educated at the Royal...
(Worcester and Christ Church) - Henry Mayr-HartingHenry Mayr-HartingProfessor Henry Maria Robert Egmont Mayr-Harting was Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford and Lay Canon of Christ Church, Oxford from 1997 until 2003....
(Merton, St Peter's, and Christ Church) - Mark MazowerMark MazowerMark A. Mazower is a British historian. His expertise is Greece, the Balkans and, more generally, 20th century Europe. He is currently a professor of history at Columbia University in New York City.-Career:...
- Josef W. MeriJosef W. MeriJosef Waleed Meri is a leading specialist in Islam in the pre-modern period, Islamic culture, social history, and interfaith relations. He is Ariane de Rothschild Academic Director in Muslim-Jewish Relations at The Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations , The Woolf Institute of Abrahamic...
(Wolfson) - Henry Hart MilmanHenry Hart MilmanThe Very Reverend Henry Hart Milman was an English historian and ecclesiastic.He was born in London, the third son of Sir Francis Milman, 1st Baronet, physician to King George III . Educated at Eton and at Brasenose College, Oxford, his university career was brilliant...
(Brasenose) Dean of St Paul's 1849-68 - Leslie MitchellLeslie MitchellDr Leslie Mitchell is a leading British authority on 18th century history.Mitchell is historian and Emeritus Fellow of University College and a member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford, England. He has been Dean of the college, appeared in the Univ Revue, and was editor of the...
(University) - W. L. MortonW.L. MortonWilliam Lewis Morton, OC was a noted Canadian historian who specialized in the development of the Canadian west. He was born in Gladstone, Manitoba. He won a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Oxford University where he studied history...
- Avner OfferAvner OfferAvner Offer is an Economic historian who currently holds the Chichele Professorship in Economic history at the University of Oxford, England. He is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and of the British Academy. He specializes in international political economy, law, the First World War and land...
(Nuffield and All Souls) - Charles OmanCharles OmanSir Charles William Chadwick Oman was a British military historian of the early 20th century. His reconstructions of medieval battles from the fragmentary and distorted accounts left by chroniclers were pioneering...
(New College and All Souls) - Robert J. O'NeillRobert J. O'NeillRobert John O'Neill AO is Chair of the International Academic Advisory Committee at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, was director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, based in London, 1982-1987, and Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford...
(All Souls) - Ilan PappeIlan PappéIlan Pappé is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, and political activist...
(St Antony's) - H. R. S. PocockH. R. S. PocockHugh Raymond Spilsbury Pocock was a British author.Pocock was born in Kent, England. He won a scholarship to St Paul's School before accepting a scholarship in Greats at Pembroke College, Oxford. From there he went on to join the Shell Oil Company where he worked until retirement...
(Pembroke) - Frederick York PowellFrederick York PowellFrederick York Powell , was an English historian and scholar.- Biography :Frederick York Powell was born in Bloomsbury, London. Much of his childhood was spent in France and Spain, so that he early acquired a mastery of the language of both countries and an insight into the genius of the people...
(Christ Church and Oriel) - Maurice PowickeF. M. PowickeSir Frederick Maurice Powicke was an English medieval historian. He was a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, delivered the Ford Lectures in 1927, and from 1929 was Regius Professor of History at Oxford. He was knighted in 1946....
(Balliol) - N.A.M. Rodger (University)
- Emma Georgina RothschildEmma Georgina RothschildEmma Georgina Rothschild, CMG is a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England. She is presently British economic historian and professor at Harvard University.- Early life to the present :...
- A. L. RowseA. L. RowseAlfred Leslie Rowse, CH, FBA , known professionally as A. L. Rowse and to friends and family as Leslie, was a British historian from Cornwall. He is perhaps best known for his work on Elizabethan England and his poetry about Cornwall. He was also a Shakespearean scholar and biographer...
(Christ Church, Oriel, and All Souls) - Conrad Russell, 5th Earl RussellConrad Russell, 5th Earl RussellConrad Sebastian Robert Russell, 5th Earl Russell was a British historian and politician. His parents were the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell and Patricia Russell...
(Merton) - James R. RussellJames R. RussellJames Robert Russell is a scholar and professor in Ancient Near Eastern, Iranian and Armenian Studies. He has published extensively in journals, and has written several books....
- Dominic SandbrookDominic SandbrookDominic Sandbrook http://dominicsandbrook.com/wordpress/about/ is a British historian. Born in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, he was educated at Malvern College...
(Balliol) - Frank SchulmanFrank SchulmanRev. Dr. Jacob Frank Schulman was a U.S. Unitarian Universalist minister, theologian, and author of several books. He held numerous degrees, including a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma, an S.T.B...
- Paul SlackPaul SlackPaul Alexander Slack FBA is a British historian. He is a former Principal of Linacre College, Oxford, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Professor of Early Modern Social History in the University of Oxford.-Life:...
(Exeter and Linacre) - Frederick Smith, 2nd Earl of BirkenheadFrederick Smith, 2nd Earl of BirkenheadFrederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead was a British historian. He is best known for writing a controversial biography of Rudyard Kipling that was suppressed by the Kipling family for many years, and which, in fact, he never lived to see in print.The son of F. E...
(Christ Church) - Goldwin SmithGoldwin SmithGoldwin Smith was a British-Canadian historian and journalist.- Early years :He was born at Reading, Berkshire. He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and after a brilliant undergraduate career he was elected to a fellowship at University College, Oxford...
(Magdalen and University) - R. W. Southern (All Souls)
- Hew StrachanHew StrachanBrigadier Professor Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, DL, FRSE, FRHS is a Scottish military historian, well known for his work on the administration of the British Army and the history of the First World War...
(All Souls) - William StubbsWilliam StubbsWilliam Stubbs was an English historian and Bishop of Oxford.The son of William Morley Stubbs, a solicitor, he was born at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and was educated at Ripon Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1848, obtaining a first-class in classics and a third in...
(Christ Church, Trinity, and Oriel) bishop of Chester 1884-89, bishop of Oxford 1889-1901 - Ernest Swinton (All Souls)
- Oliver TaplinOliver TaplinProfessor Oliver Taplin was a fellow and tutor of Classics at Magdalen College, Oxford. He holds a DPhil from Oxford University....
(Magdalen) - R. H. TawneyR. H. TawneyRichard Henry Tawney was an English economic historian, social critic, Christian socialist, and an important proponent of adult education....
(Balliol) president of the Workers Educational Association 1928–44 - A. J. P. Taylor (Oriel)
- Martin ThomasMartin ThomasMartin Thomas is a British Historian.Thomas did both his undergraduate and doctoral studies at Oxford University, completing his D.Phil in 1991. He joined the history department at the University of the West of England, Bristol in 1992 before leaving to take up a post at the History Department of...
- Keith ThomasKeith Thomas (historian)Sir Keith Vivian Thomas is a Welsh historian, best known as the author of Religion and the Decline of Magic and Man and the Natural World.-Biography:...
(Balliol, All Souls, St John's, and Corpus Christi) - Elizabeth Topham Kennan
- Arnold J. ToynbeeArnold J. ToynbeeArnold Joseph Toynbee CH was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, A Study of History, 1934–1961, was a synthesis of world history, a metahistory based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and decline, which examined history from a global...
(Balliol) - Rick TrainorRick TrainorProfessor Sir Richard Hughes "Rick" Trainor KBE FRHS FKC is the current Principal of King's College London.-Biography:...
(Merton) - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (Christ Church)
- Ann TrindadeAnn TrindadeAnn Trindade is a Principal Fellow in the History Department at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and is the author of a biography of Berengaria of Navarre.-External links:*...
(Lady Margaret Hall) - Kenneth TurpinKenneth TurpinKenneth Turpin was a former Provost of Oriel College, Oxford from 1957 to 1980. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1966 to 1969....
(Oriel) - J. M. Wallace-Hadrill (All Souls)
- Veronica WedgwoodVeronica WedgwoodDame Veronica Wedgwood OM DBE was an English historian who generally published under the name C. V. Wedgwood...
(Lady Margaret Hall) - Christopher WickhamChristopher WickhamChristopher John Wickham, FBA is Chichele Professor of Medieval History in the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College.-Biography:...
(All Souls) - Spenser WilkinsonSpenser WilkinsonHenry Spenser Wilkinson was the first Chichele Professor of Military History at Oxford University. While he was an English writer known primarily for his work on military subjects, he had wide interests...
(All Souls) - A. N. WilsonA. N. WilsonAndrew Norman Wilson is an English writer and newspaper columnist, known for his critical biographies, novels, works of popular history and religious views...
(New College and St Stephen's House)
Classicists, Byzantinists, Archaeologists
- Michael AngoldMichael AngoldMichael Angold is Professor Emeritus of Byzantine History and Honorary Fellow in the University of Edinburgh.-Biography:Michael Angold was educated at the University of Oxford...
- Charles BadhamCharles BadhamCharles Badham was an English university professor, active in Australia.-Early life:Badham was born at Ludlow, Shropshire, the fourth son of Charles Badham senior, a classical scholar and regius professor of physic at Glasgow; and Margaret Campbell, a cousin of Thomas Campbell, the poet. His elder...
(Wadham) - Richard BentleyRichard BentleyRichard Bentley was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge....
(Wadham) - William BorlaseWilliam BorlaseWilliam Borlase , Cornish antiquary, geologist and naturalist, was born at Pendeen in Cornwall, of an ancient family . From 1722 he was Rector of Ludgvan and died there in 1772.-Life and works:...
(Exeter) - Glen BowersockGlen BowersockGlen Warren Bowersock is a contemporary American scholar of the ancient world and the history of ancient Greece, Rome and the Near East.-Biography:...
(Balliol) Prof of Classics & History Harvard University 1969-80, Prof of Ancient History Institute for Advanced Study 1980-2006 - Maurice BowraMaurice BowraSir Cecil Maurice Bowra was an English classical scholar and academic, known for his wit. He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1970, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1951 to 1954.-Birth and boyhood:...
(New College and Wadham) - Peter BrownPeter Brown (historian)Peter Robert Lamont Brown is Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University. His principal contributions to the discipline have been in the field of late antiquity and, in particular, the religious culture of the later Roman Empire and early medieval Europe.-Life:Peter Brown was born in...
(New College and All Soul's) - P. A. BruntPeter BruntPeter Astbury Brunt FBA was an ancient historian at Oxford University....
(Oriel and Brasenose) - William CamdenWilliam CamdenWilliam Camden was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and officer of arms. He wrote the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland and the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.- Early years :Camden was born in London...
(Magdalen, Christ Church, and the former Broadgates Hall) - Averil CameronAveril CameronDame Averil Millicent Cameron, DBE, FBA is Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History in the University of Oxford, and was formerly the Warden of Keble College, Oxford between 1994 and 2010....
(Keble) - Henry ChadwickHenry Chadwick (theologian)Henry Chadwick KBE was a British academic and Church of England clergyman. A former Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford — and as such also head of Christ Church, Oxford — he also served as Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, becoming the first person in four centuries to have headed a college at...
(Christ Church) - G. E. M. de Ste Croix (New College)
- Robinson EllisRobinson EllisRobinson Ellis was an English classical scholar.He was born at Barming, near Maidstone, and was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, Rugby School, and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1858 he became fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and in 1870 professor of Latin at University College, London...
(Balliol and Trinity) - W. H. C. FrendWilliam Hugh Clifford FrendThe Reverend Professor William Hugh Clifford Frend was an English ecclesiastical historian, archaeologist, and Anglican priest.-Academic career:* Haileybury College...
(Keble) - Edward GibbonEdward GibbonEdward Gibbon was an English historian and Member of Parliament...
(Magdalen) Member of Parliament 1774-83 - Jasper GriffinJasper GriffinJasper Griffin , was Public Orator and Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford from 1992 until 2004.Jasper Griffin read Classical Moderations and Greats at Balliol College, Oxford and was Jackson Fellow at Harvard University...
(Balliol) - Francis J. HaverfieldFrancis J. HaverfieldFrancis John Haverfield was a British historian and archaeologist.Educated at the University of Oxford, he also worked under Theodor Mommsen...
- Simon HornblowerSimon HornblowerSimon Hornblower is Professor of Classics and Ancient History in the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.-Biography:...
(Oriel) Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History University College London - Joan M. HusseyJoan M. HusseyJoan Mervyn Hussey , MA PhD FSA FRHistS was a British Byzantine scholar and historian.-Education:...
(St Hugh's) - Benjamin JowettBenjamin JowettBenjamin Jowett was renowned as an influential tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian and translator of Plato. He was Master of Balliol College, Oxford.-Early career:...
(Balliol) - Kathleen KenyonKathleen KenyonDame Kathleen Mary Kenyon , was a leading archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She is best known for her excavations in Jericho in 1952-1958.-Early life:...
(Somerville) - Francis LeddyFrancis LeddyJohn Francis Leddy, OC, Ph.D was a Canadian academic and President of the University of Windsor from 1964 to 1978....
(Exeter) - Henry LiddellHenry LiddellHenry George Liddell was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, dean of Christ Church, Oxford, headmaster of Westminster School , author of A History of Rome , and co-author of the monumental work A Greek-English Lexicon, which is still used by students of Greek...
(Christ Church) - Martin Litchfield WestMartin Litchfield WestMartin Litchfield West is an internationally recognised scholar in classics, classical antiquity and philology...
(St John's, University, and All Souls) - William Walter MerryWilliam Walter MerryWilliam Walter Merry was an English classical scholar, clergyman, and educator.William Merry was born in Evesham, Worcestershire and was educated at Cheltenham College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained the chancellor's prize for a Latin essay in 1858. He was fellow and lecturer of...
(Balliol) - Fergus MillarFergus Millar-External links:* staff page at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford* announcement of "History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ."...
(Brasenose) - Teresa MorganTeresa MorganThe Reverend Dr Teresa Morgan is an English academic and cleric, best known as the author of Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds....
(Oriel) - Gilbert MurrayGilbert MurrayGeorge Gilbert Aimé Murray, OM was an Australian born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece, perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century...
(Christ Church) - John Julius Norwich (John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich)John Julius NorwichJohn Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich CVO — known as John Julius Norwich — is an English historian, travel writer and television personality.-Early life:...
- Dimitri Obolensky (formerly Prince Dmitriy Dmitrievich Obolensky)Dimitri ObolenskySir Dimitri Obolensky was born Prince Dmitriy Dmitrievich Obolensky to Prince Dimitri Alexandrovich Obolensky and Countess Maria Shuvalov . He was descended from Rurik, Igor, Svyatoslav, St Vladimir of Kiev, St Michael of Chernigov, and Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov...
(Christ Church) - William Mitchell RamsayWilliam Mitchell RamsaySir William Mitchell Ramsay was a Scottish archaeologist and New Testament scholar. By his death in 1939 he had become the foremost authority of his day on the history of Asia Minor and a leading scholar in the study of the New Testament...
(St John's, Exeter, and Lincoln) - Nicholas RichardsonNicholas RichardsonNicholas James Richardson was Warden of Greyfriars, Oxford from 2004 until 2007.Nicholas Richardson was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford . From 1960 until 1961 he was a pupil of G.E.M...
(Magdalen, Pembroke, Trinity, Merton, and Greyfriars) - Katherine RoutledgeKatherine RoutledgeKatherine Maria Routledge, née Pease was a British archaeologist who initiated the first true survey of Easter Island....
(Somerville) - Erich SegalErich SegalErich Wolf Segal was an American author, screenwriter, and educator. He was best-known for writing the novel Love Story , a best-seller, and writing the motion picture of the same name, which was a major hit....
(Wolfson) - William Young SellarWilliam Young SellarWilliam Young Sellar was a Scottish classical scholar.Sellar was born at Morvich, Sutherland, the son of Patrick Sellar of Westfield, Morayshire and his wife Ann Craig of Barmakelty, Moray. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and afterwards at the University of Glasgow. He entered Balliol...
(Balliol and Oriel) - A. N. Sherwin-White (St John's)
- John SparrowJohn Hanbury Angus SparrowJohn Sparrow was an English academic, barrister, book-collector and Warden of All Souls College, Oxford from 1952-77.-Early life and education:...
(New College and All Souls) - William Archibald SpoonerWilliam Archibald SpoonerWilliam Archibald Spooner was a famous Oxford don whose name is given to the linguistic phenomenon of spoonerism.-Biography:...
(New College) - Ronald SymeRonald SymeSir Ronald Syme, OM, FBA was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. Long associated with Oxford University, he is widely regarded as the 20th century's greatest historian of ancient Rome...
(Oriel, Trinity, Brasenose, and Wolfson) - Emily VermeuleEmily VermeuleEmily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule was an American classical scholar and archaeologist.-Biography:She was born on August 11, 1928 in New York City. She earned an undergraduate degree at Bryn Mawr College in 1950, and earned a master's degree from Radcliffe College in 1954, and a Ph.D. from Bryn...
- J. B. Ward-PerkinsJohn Bryan Ward-PerkinsJohn Bryan Ward-Perkins CMG, CBE, FBA was a British Classical architectural historian and archaeologist, and director of the British School at Rome.-Background:...
(New College)
Modern Languages
- Malcolm BowieMalcolm BowieMalcolm McNaughtan Bowie FBA was a British academic, and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge from 2002 to 2006. An acclaimed scholar of French literature, Bowie wrote several books on Marcel Proust....
(All Souls) - George Alfred KolkhorstGeorge Alfred KolkhorstGeorge Alfred Kolkhorst was an Oxford don.Kolkhorst was a member of Exeter College, Oxford. He was appointed University Lecturer in Spanish in 1921 and Reader in Spanish in 1931, holding office until his death in 1958...
(Exeter) - Malcolm PasleyMalcolm PasleySir John Malcolm Sabine Pasley, 5th Baronet, FBA , commonly known as Malcolm Pasley, was a literary scholar best known for his dedication to and publication of the works of Franz Kafka.-Early life:...
(Trinity, The Queen's, and Magdalen) - T. J. ReedTerence James ReedT. J. Reed is a prominent British Germanist, an emeritus fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy; he was formerly Taylor Professor of German in the University of Oxford....
(The Queen's) - Graham RobbGraham RobbGraham Macdonald Robb FRSL is a British author.Robb was born in Manchester and educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester and Exeter College, Oxford, where he studied Modern Languages...
(Exeter) - Mark SouthernMark R.V. SouthernMark Roderick Vendrell Southern was an Indo-Europeanist and professor of German and linguistics.His research and teaching interests spanned the fields of Linguistics, Classics, Literature, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion...
(Balliol)
Philosophers
- Theodor Adorno (Merton)
- Virgil AldrichVirgil AldrichVirgil Charles Aldrich, , was an American philosopher of art, language, and religion.-Early life and education:...
- Nayef Al-RodhanNayef Al-RodhanNayef Al-Rodhan,M.D., Ph.D, is a philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author. He is a Senior Member of St. Antony’s College at Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom., Senior Scholar in Geostrategy and Director of the Programme on the Geopolitics of Globalisation and Transnational...
(St Antony's) - Archibald AlisonArchibald Alison (Scottish author)Archibald Alison FRS FRSE was a Scottish episcopalian priest and essayist.-Early life:He was born at Edinburgh on 13 November, 1757, to Patrick Alison, the provost of the Diocese of Edinburgh, himself a younger son of an Alison of Newhall, near Coupar Angus.After studying at the University of...
(Balliol) - Pamela Sue AndersonPamela Sue AndersonPamela Sue Anderson is a philosopher who specialises in philosophy of religion, feminist philosophy and continental philosophy. In 2007 she was Official Fellow, Tutor in Philosophy and Christian Ethics, Dean, and Women's Advisor of Regent's Park College in the University of Oxford...
(Mansfield and Regent's Park) - G. E. M. AnscombeG. E. M. AnscombeGertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe , better known as Elizabeth Anscombe, was a British analytic philosopher from Ireland. A student of Ludwig Wittgenstein, she became an authority on his work and edited and translated many books drawn from his writings, above all his Philosophical Investigations...
(St Hugh's) - Robin AttfieldRobin AttfieldRobin Attfield, MA , PhD has been Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University since 1992.Robin Attfield read Greats at Christ Church and theology at Regent's Park College, Oxford....
(Christ Church and Regent's Park) - J. L. AustinJ. L. AustinJohn Langshaw Austin was a British philosopher of language, born in Lancaster and educated at Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford University. Austin is widely associated with the concept of the speech act and the idea that speech is itself a form of action...
(Balliol) - Alfred AyerAlfred AyerSir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer was a British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and Logic and The Problem of Knowledge ....
(Christ Church) - Roger BaconRoger BaconRoger Bacon, O.F.M. , also known as Doctor Mirabilis , was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empirical methods...
(Greyriars) - Gordon BakerGordon Park BakerGordon Park Baker was an American-English philosopher. His topics of interest included Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gottlob Frege, Friedrich Waismann, Bertrand Russell, the Vienna Circle, and René Descartes...
(The Queen's, St John's) - Jeremy BenthamJeremy BenthamJeremy Bentham was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism...
(The Queen's) - Isaiah BerlinIsaiah BerlinSir Isaiah Berlin OM, FBA was a British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas of Russian-Jewish origin, regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century and a dominant liberal scholar of his generation...
(Corpus Christi and All Souls) - Roy BhaskarRoy BhaskarRoy Bhaskar is a British philosopher, best known as the initiator of the philosophical movement of Critical Realism.-Early life:Bhaskar was born in Teddington, London, the elder of two brothers...
(Balliol) - Brand BlanshardBrand BlanshardPercy Brand Blanshard was an American philosopher known primarily for his defense of reason. A powerful polemicist, by all accounts he comported himself with courtesy and grace in philosophical controversies and exemplified the "rational temper" he advocated.-Life:Brand Blanshard was born August...
- Elisabeth BlochmannElisabeth BlochmannElisabeth Blochmann was an eminent scholar of education, as well as of philosophy, and a pioneer in and researcher of women's education in Germany.-Life:...
(Lady Margaret Hall) - Edward de BonoEdward de BonoEdward de Bono is a physician, author, inventor, and consultant. He originated the term lateral thinking, wrote a best selling book Six Thinking Hats and is a proponent of the deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in schools.- Biography :Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono was born to...
(Christ Church) - Thomas BrowneThomas BrowneSir Thomas Browne was an English author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including medicine, religion, science and the esoteric....
(Pembroke) - David ChalmersDavid ChalmersDavid John Chalmers is an Australian philosopher specializing in the area of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, whose recent work concerns verbal disputes. He is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University...
(Lincoln) - Gerald CohenGerald CohenGerald Allan "Jerry" Cohen was a Marxist political philosopher, formerly Visiting Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College, London and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford...
(All Souls) - R. G. CollingwoodR. G. CollingwoodRobin George Collingwood was a British philosopher and historian. He was born at Cartmel, Grange-over-Sands in Lancashire, the son of the academic W. G. Collingwood, and was educated at Rugby School and at University College, Oxford, where he read Greats...
(Magdalen) - Gregory CurrieGregory CurrieGregory Currie is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Nottingham.He was educated at the London School of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley...
(St John's) - Brian DaviesBrian Davies (philosopher)Brian Evan Anthony Davies OP is Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University , and author of the classic, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, now available in a third English edition and translated into five Asian and European languages.-Education:Brian Davies read Theology at the...
(Blackfriars) - Daniel DennettDaniel DennettDaniel Clement Dennett is an American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the Co-director of...
(Hertford) - John Theophilus DesaguliersJohn Theophilus DesaguliersJohn Theophilus Desaguliers was a natural philosopher born in France. He was a member of the Royal Society of London beginning 29 July 1714. He was presented with the Royal Society's highest honour, the Copley Medal, in 1734, 1736 and 1741, with the 1741 award being for his discovery of the...
(Christ Church and Hart Hall) - Michael DummettMichael DummettSir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett FBA D.Litt is a British philosopher. He was, until 1992, Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford...
(Christ Church and All Souls) - Dorothy EdgingtonDorothy EdgingtonDorothy Edgington is a philosopher active in metaphysics and philosophical logic. She was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 2003 to 2006. Before moving to Oxford Edgington taught for many years at Birkbeck College, London and now teaches there again...
(St Hilda's) - Gareth EvansGareth Evans (philosopher)Gareth Evans was a British philosopher.-Life:Gareth Evans studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at University College, Oxford . His philosophy tutor was Peter Strawson...
(University) - Antony FlewAntony FlewAntony Garrard Newton Flew was a British philosopher. Belonging to the analytic and evidentialist schools of thought, he was notable for his works on the philosophy of religion....
(St John's) - Luciano FloridiLuciano FloridiLuciano Floridi currently holds the Research Chair in philosophy of information and the UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics, both at the University of Hertfordshire, Department of Philosophy...
(St Cross) - Philippa FootPhilippa FootPhilippa Ruth Foot was a British philosopher, most notable for her works in ethics. She was one of the founders of contemporary virtue ethics...
(Somerville) - Peter GeachPeter GeachPeter Thomas Geach is a British philosopher. His areas of interest are the history of philosophy, philosophical logic, and the theory of identity.He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford...
(Balliol) - Celia GreenCelia GreenCelia Elizabeth Green is a British writer on philosophical skepticism, twentieth-century thought, and psychology.- Biography :...
(Somerville) - Paul Grice (Corpus Christi)
- Robert GrossetesteRobert GrossetesteRobert Grosseteste or Grossetete was an English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian and Bishop of Lincoln. He was born of humble parents at Stradbroke in Suffolk. A.C...
(Greyfriars) bishop of Lincoln 1235-53 - Þorsteinn GylfasonÞorsteinn GylfasonÞorsteinn Gylfason was an Icelandic philosopher, translator, musician, poet, art enthusiast and intellectual. Þorsteinn was born and raised in Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland. His parents were Guðrún Vilmundardóttir and Gylfi Þ. Gíslason, a university professor and government minister...
(Magdalen) - Susan HaackSusan HaackSusan Haack is an English professor of philosophy and law at the University of Miami in the United States. She has written on logic, the philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics. Her pragmatism follows that of Charles Sanders Peirce.-Career:Haack is a graduate of the University of...
- Peter HackerPeter HackerPeter Michael Stephan Hacker is a British philosopher.His principal expertise is in the philosophy of mind andphilosophy of language...
(The Queen's, St Antony's, Balliol, and St John's) - Stuart HampshireStuart HampshireSir Stuart Newton Hampshire was an Oxford University philosopher, literary critic and university administrator. He was one of the antirationalist Oxford thinkers who gave a new direction to moral and political thought in the post-World War II era.Hampshire was educated at Repton School and at...
(Balliol) - R. M. HareR. M. HareRichard Mervyn Hare was an English moral philosopher who held the post of White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1966 until 1983. He subsequently taught for a number of years at the University of Florida...
(Balliol) - Thomas HobbesThomas HobbesThomas Hobbes of Malmesbury , in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy...
(Hertford) - C. E. M. JoadC. E. M. JoadCyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad was an English philosopher and broadcasting personality. He is most famous for his appearance on The Brains Trust, an extremely popular BBC Radio wartime discussion programme...
(Balliol) - Anthony KennyAnthony KennySir Anthony John Patrick Kenny FBA is an English philosopher whose interests lie in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of Wittgenstein and the philosophy of religion...
(St Benet's, Balliol, St John's)
- Brian KlugBrian KlugBrian Klug is Senior Research Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy at St. Benet's Hall, Oxford and a member of the philosophy faculty at Oxford University...
(St Benet's) - Leszek Kołakowski (All Souls)
- Stephen LawStephen LawDr. Stephen Law is a philosopher and senior lecturer at Heythrop College in the University of London. He also edits the philosophical journal Think, which is published by the Royal Institute of Philosophy and aimed at the general public. Law currently lives in Oxford, England, with his wife and two...
(Trinity and The Queen's) - John LockeJohn LockeJohn Locke FRS , widely known as the Father of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social...
(Christ Church) - John LucasJohn Lucas (philosopher)- Overview :John Lucas was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied first mathematics, then Greats , obtaining first class honors, and proceeding to an MA in Philosophy in 1954. He spent the 1957-58 academic year at Princeton University, deepening his...
(Balliol) - Colin McGinnColin McGinnColin McGinn is a British philosopher currently working at the University of Miami. McGinn has also held major teaching positions at Oxford University and Rutgers University. He is best known for his work in the philosophy of mind, though he has written on topics across the breadth of modern...
- Henry Longueville ManselHenry Longueville ManselThe Very Reverend Henry Longueville Mansel, D.D. was an English philosopher and ecclesiastic.He was born at Cosgrove, Northamptonshire .He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, London and St John's College, Oxford...
(St John's and Magdalen) Dean of St Paul's 1868-71 - Mary Midgely (Somerville)
- Max More (Max T. O'Connor)Max MoreMax More is a philosopher and futurist who writes, speaks, and consults on advanced decision-making about emerging technologies....
(St Anne's) - Thomas NagelThomas NagelThomas Nagel is an American philosopher, currently University Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, where he has taught since 1980. His main areas of philosophical interest are philosophy of mind, political philosophy and ethics...
(Corpus Christi) - Sari NusseibehSari NusseibehSari Nusseibeh , and raised in Jerusalem, is a Palestinian professor of philosophy and president of the Al-Quds University in Jerusalem...
(Christ Church) President of Al-Quds University - Michael OakeshottMichael OakeshottMichael Joseph Oakeshott was an English philosopher and political theorist who wrote about philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, and philosophy of law...
(Nuffield) - William of OckhamWilliam of OckhamWilliam of Ockham was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher, who is believed to have been born in Ockham, a small village in Surrey. He is considered to be one of the major figures of medieval thought and was at the centre of the major intellectual and political controversies of...
(Merton) - Derek ParfitDerek ParfitDerek Parfit is a British philosopher who specializes in problems of personal identity, rationality and ethics, and the relations between them. His 1984 book Reasons and Persons has been very influential...
(Balliol and All Souls) - Christopher PeacockeChristopher PeacockeChristopher Arthur Bruce Peacocke is a philosopher especially known for his work in philosophy of mind and epistemology...
(Exeter, The Queen's, All Souls, New College, and Magdalen) - David PearceDavid Pearce (philosopher)David Pearce is a British utilitarian thinker. He believes and promotes the idea that there exists a strong ethical imperative for humans to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. His book-length internet manifesto The Hedonistic Imperative details how he believes the...
- Jonathan RéeJonathan RéeJonathan Rée is a British freelance historian and philosopher from Bradford. Educated at Oxford University, Rée was previously a Professor of Philosophy at Middlesex University, but gave up a teaching career in order to "have more time to think"....
- W. D. RossW. D. RossSir David Ross KBE was a Scottish philosopher, known for work in ethics. His best known work is The Right and the Good , and he is perhaps best known for developing a pluralist, deontological form of intuitionist ethics in response to G.E. Moore's intuitionism...
(Balliol and Oriel) - Alan RyanAlan RyanAlan James Ryan, FBA was Warden of New College, Oxford, and Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford and currently a lecturer at Princeton University....
(Balliol and New College) - Gilbert RyleGilbert RyleGilbert Ryle , was a British philosopher, a representative of the generation of British ordinary language philosophers that shared Wittgenstein's approach to philosophical problems, and is principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase "the ghost in the...
(Christ Church) - Julian SavulescuJulian SavulescuJulian Savulescu is a Romanian-Australian philosopher and bioethicist. He is Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and Head of the Melbourne–Oxford Stem Cell Collaboration,...
(St Cross) - John Duns ScotusDuns ScotusBlessed John Duns Scotus, O.F.M. was one of the more important theologians and philosophers of the High Middle Ages. He was nicknamed Doctor Subtilis for his penetrating and subtle manner of thought....
- John Rogers SearleJohn SearleJohn Rogers Searle is an American philosopher and currently the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.-Biography:...
(Christ Church) - Peter SingerPeter SingerPeter Albert David Singer is an Australian philosopher who is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne...
(University) - Aaron SlomanAaron SlomanAaron Sloman is a philosopher and researcher on artificial intelligence and cognitive science. He is the author of several papers on philosophy, epistemology and artificial intelligence...
(Balliol and St Antony's) - Galen StrawsonGalen StrawsonGalen John Strawson is a British philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics , John Locke, David Hume and Kant. He was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford , from where he won a scholarship to Winchester College...
- Peter StrawsonP. F. StrawsonSir Peter Frederick Strawson FBA was an English philosopher. He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1968 to 1987. Before that he was appointed as a college lecturer at University College, Oxford in 1947 and became a tutorial fellow the...
(St John's, University, and Magdalen) - Ralph StrodeRalph StrodeRalph Strode , English schoolman, was probably a native of the West Midlands.He was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, before 1360, and famous as a teacher of logic and philosophy and a writer on educational subjects...
(Merton) - Charles TaylorCharles Taylor (philosopher)Charles Margrave Taylor, is a Canadian philosopher from Montreal, Quebec best known for his contributions in political philosophy, the philosophy of social science, and in the history of philosophy. His contributions to these fields have earned him both the prestigious Kyoto Prize and the...
(Balliol and All Souls) - Geoffrey WarnockGeoffrey WarnockSir Geoffrey James Warnock was a philosopher and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Before his knighthood , he was commonly known as G. J. Warnock.- Life :...
(Hertford) - Mary Warnock, Baroness WarnockMary Warnock, Baroness WarnockHelen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, DBE, FBA is a British philosopher of morality, education and mind, and writer on existentialism.-Early life:...
(Lady Margaret Hall and St Hugh's) - Ronald Lampman WattsRonald Lampman WattsRonald Lampman Watts, CC, FRSC is a Canadian academic, who served as the 15th Principal and Vice-chancellor of Queen's University from 1974 until 1984....
(Oriel) Principal of Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) 1974–84 - Kathy WilkesKathy WilkesKathleen Vaughan Wilkes was an English philosopher and academic who played an important part in rebuilding the education systems of former Communist countries after 1990. She established her reputation as an academic with her contributions to the philosophy of mind in two major works and many...
(St Hilda's) - Bernard WilliamsBernard WilliamsSir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams was an English moral philosopher, described by The Times as the most brilliant and most important British moral philosopher of his time. His publications include Problems of the Self , Moral Luck , Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy , and Truth and Truthfulness...
(Balliol and All Souls) - Kwasi WireduKwasi WireduKwasi Wiredu is one of the foremost African philosophers working today.Wiredu was born in Kumasi, Ghana in 1931, and attended Adisadel College from 1948 to 1952. It was during this period that he discovered philosophy, through Plato and Bertrand Russell, and he gained a place at the University...
(University)
Economists
- Abul Maal Abdul MuhithAbul Maal Abdul MuhithAbul Maal Abdul Muhith is an economist, diplomat, and a Bengali Language Movement veteran from Bangladesh. He was born in Sylhet in 1934.-Education:Mr. Muhith secured first place in his Intermediate examination in 1951 from Sylhet MC College...
- William Ashley (Balliol and Lincoln)
- Thomas Balogh, Baron BaloghThomas BaloghThomas Balogh, Baron Balogh was a Hungarian economist and member of the British House of Lords....
(Balliol) - Marian BellMarian BellMarian Bell is a British economist, and was a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from June 2002 to June 2005....
(Hertford) - David Bensusan-ButtDavid Bensusan-ButtDavid Miles Bensusan-Butt was an English economist who spent much of his career in Australia. Known as David, he published his work as D. M...
(Nuffield) - William Beveridge, 1st Baron BeveridgeWilliam BeveridgeWilliam Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge KCB was a British economist and social reformer. He is best known for his 1942 report Social Insurance and Allied Services which served as the basis for the post-World War II welfare state put in place by the Labour government elected in 1945.Lord...
(Balliol) - Shahid Javed BurkiShahid Javed BurkiShahid Javed Burki is a professional economist who has served as a Vice President of the World Bank and as a caretaker Finance Minister of Pakistan...
(Christ Church) - Frances CairncrossFrances CairncrossFrances Anne Cairncross CBE is a British economist, journalist and academic.Cairncross read Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford, graduating in 1965, and holds an MA in Economics from Brown University, Rhode Island....
(St Anne's and Exeter) - G. D. H. ColeG. D. H. ColeGeorge Douglas Howard Cole was an English political theorist, economist, writer and historian. As a libertarian socialist he was a long-time member of the Fabian Society and an advocate for the cooperative movement...
(Balliol and University) - Howard DaviesHoward Davies (LSE)Sir Howard Davies is a British economist. Davies served as Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science from 2003 to May 2011, having decided to resign from the position on 3 March 2011 following concern over the institution's decision to accept funding from a foundation...
(Merton) Director LSE, formerly Chmn FSA, Dep Gov Bank of England, DG CBI, Controller Audit Commn - Andrew DilnotAndrew DilnotAndrew Dilnot CBE is British economist and broadcaster. He has been Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford since October 2002. He was for several years the presenter of BBC Radio 4's series on numbers, More or Less and of documentaries for British television. Dilnot was Director of the Institute...
(St John's) - Francis Ysidro EdgeworthFrancis Ysidro EdgeworthFrancis Ysidro Edgeworth FBA was an Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s...
(Balliol) - Amelia FletcherAmelia FletcherAmelia Fletcher is a British singer, songwriter, guitarist, and economist. She has been the frontwoman of an evolving series of pop groups from the 1980s to the present...
- Andrew GrahamAndrew Graham (academic)Andrew Graham is an academic and was the Master of Balliol College, Oxford.-Life:Andrew Graham was born in Perranporth, Cornwall, and attended Truro Cathedral School and then Charterhouse. He read PPE at St Edmund Hall and graduated from Oxford University in 1964...
(Balliol) - Roy HarrodRoy HarrodSir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod was an English economist. He is best known for his biography of John Maynard Keynes and the development of the Harrod–Domar model, which he and Evsey Domar developed independently...
(Christ Church) - John HicksJohn HicksSir John Richard Hicks was a British economist and one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economics were his statement of consumer demand theory in microeconomics, and the IS/LM model , which...
(Balliol) - John A. HobsonJohn A. HobsonJohn Atkinson Hobson , commonly known as John A. Hobson or J. A. Hobson, was an English economist and critic of imperialism, widely popular as a lecturer and writer.-Life:...
(Lincoln) - Harry HodsonHarry HodsonHenry Vincent "Harry" Hodson was a British economist and editor.-Career:Hodson was born in Edmonton, London. He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Balliol College, Oxford, becoming a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, in 1928. He was later a member of the Economic Advisory Council and...
(Balliol and All Souls) - Lawrence KleinLawrence KleinLawrence Robert Klein is an American economist. For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1980...
(Lincoln) - James MeadeJames MeadeJames Edward Meade CB, FBA was a British economist and winner of the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with the Swedish economist Bertil Ohlin for their "Pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements."Meade was born in...
(Oriel) - James MirrleesJames MirrleesSir James Alexander Mirrlees is a Scottish economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in 1998....
(Nuffield) - Gunnar MyrdalGunnar MyrdalKarl Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish Nobel Laureate economist, sociologist, and politician. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the...
(Balliol) - Stephen NickellStephen NickellStephen John Nickell CBE is a British economist and currently Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford.Nickell was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood and Pembroke College, Cambridge....
(Nuffield) Prof Economics LSE 1998-2006, Member Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee 2000-06 - Paul OrmerodPaul OrmerodPaul Ormerod is a Lancastrian economist who is currently researching complexity, complex systems, nonlinear feedback, the boom and bust cycle of business and economic competition...
(St Catherine's) - James RobertsonJames Robertson (activist)James Robertson , a British-born political and economic thinker and activist, became an independent writer and speaker in 1974 after an early career as a British civil servant....
(Balliol) - Walt Whitman RostowWalt Whitman RostowWalt Whitman Rostow was a United States economist and political theorist who served as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to U.S. President Lyndon B...
(Balliol) - Ernst SchumacherE. F. SchumacherErnst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher was an internationally influential economic thinker, statistician and economist in Britain, serving as Chief Economic Advisor to the UK National Coal Board for two decades. His ideas became popularized in much of the English-speaking world during the 1970s...
- Amartya SenAmartya SenAmartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...
(Nuffield and All Souls) - Adam SmithAdam SmithAdam Smith was a Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations...
(Balliol) - Alasdair SmithAlasdair SmithAlasdair Smith is a professor of economics and former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sussex and former Chair of the 1994 Group. He is a noted international economist whose studies have been used by the European Union.Smith was born on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland and is married to Sherry...
- Robert SolowRobert SolowRobert Merton Solow is an American economist particularly known for his work on the theory of economic growth that culminated in the exogenous growth model named after him...
(Balliol) - Michael SpenceMichael SpenceAndrew Michael Spence is an American economist and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, along with George A. Akerlof and Joseph E. Stiglitz, for their work on the dynamics of information flows and market development. He conducted this research while at Harvard University...
(Magdalen) - Joseph E. StiglitzJoseph E. StiglitzJoseph Eugene Stiglitz, ForMemRS, FBA, is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the John Bates Clark Medal . He is also the former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank...
(All Souls and St Catherine's) - Fabian TassanoFabian TassanoFabian Tassano is an economist and author, known for his radical views on the medical profession, and for his critique of modern culture in general.-Biography:...
(New College) - Lester ThurowLester ThurowLester Carl Thurow is a former dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of books on economic topics. Thurow was born in Livingston, Montana.-Education:...
(Balliol) - Barbara WardBarbara WardBarbara Mary Ward , in later life Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, was a British economist and writer interested in the problems of developing countries. She urged Western governments to share their prosperity with the rest of the world and in the 1960s turned her attention to environmental...
(Somerville) - Sufiah YusofSufiah YusofSufiah Yusof is a British mathematics prodigy originally from Malaysia. She is now working as a social worker.- Biography :Sufiah Yusof first made headlines in 1997 when she gained entry into St Hilda's College, Oxford to study mathematics at the age of 13.In 2001, she ran away from her student...
(St Hilda's)
Geography
- Andrew Goudie (Hertford and St Cross)
- Halford John MackinderHalford John MackinderSir Halford John Mackinder PC was an English geographer and is considered one of the founding fathers of both geopolitics and geostrategy.-Early life and education:...
(Christ Church) Director LSE 1903–08, Member of Parliament 1910–22 - Nick MiddletonNick MiddletonNick Middleton is a physical geographer and supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He specialises in desertification.Nick Middleton was born in London, England. As a geographer he has travelled to more than 50 countries...
(St Anne's)
Anthropology and ethnography
- Madawi Al-RasheedMadawi Al-RasheedMadawi Al-Rasheed is a Saudi-Arabian-born professor of social anthropology at the department of Theology and Religious Studies in King's College London since 1994. She gives occasional lectures in the United States, Europe and the Middle East....
(Nuffield) - Edwin ArdenerEdwin ArdenerEdwin Ardener was a British social anthropologist and academic. He was also noted for his contributions to the study of history. Within anthropology, some of his most important contributions were to the study of gender, as in his 1975 work in which he described women as "muted" in social...
(St. John's) - Marius BarbeauMarius BarbeauCharles Marius Barbeau, , also known as C. Marius Barbeau, or more commonly simply Marius Barbeau, was a Canadian ethnographer and folklorist who is today considered a founder of Canadian anthropology...
(Oriel) - John DavisJohn Davis (academic)John Horsley Russell Davis is a British anthropologist, ex-Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Oxford.-Education:...
(University and All Souls) - Alex de WaalAlex de WaalAlexander William Lowndes de Waal is a British writer and researcher on African issues. He was a fellow of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at Harvard University, as well as program director at the Social Science Research Council on AIDS in New York City...
(Nuffield) - E. E. Evans-PritchardE. E. Evans-PritchardSir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard was an English anthropologist who was instrumental in the development of social anthropology...
(Exeter and All Souls) - Ernest GellnerErnest GellnerErnest André Gellner was a philosopher and social anthropologist, described by The Daily Telegraph when he died as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals and by The Independent as a "one-man crusade for critical rationalism."His first book, Words and Things —famously, and uniquely...
(Balliol) - Max GluckmanMax GluckmanMax Gluckman was a South African and British social anthropologist.He grew up in South Africa, working later under the British Administration in Northern Rhodesia...
(Exeter) - Stuart HallStuart Hall (cultural theorist)Stuart Hall is a cultural theorist and sociologist who has lived and worked in the United Kingdom since 1951. Hall, along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams, was one of the founding figures of the school of thought that is now known as British Cultural Studies or The Birmingham School of...
(Merton) - Earnest HootonEarnest HootonEarnest Albert Hooton was a U.S. physical anthropologist known for his work on racial classification and his popular writings such as the book Up From The Ape...
- E. O. JamesE. O. JamesThe Reverend Professor Edwin Oliver James was an anthropologist in the field of comparative religion. He was Professor Emeritus of the History and Philosophy of Religion in the University of London, Fellow of University College London and Fellow of King's College London...
(Exeter) - Hugh KawharuHugh KawharuSir Ian "Hugh" Kawharu, ONZ, FRSNZ was a distinguished academic and paramount chief of the Ngāti Whātua Māori tribe.Born in Ashburton, New Zealand, he attended Auckland Grammar School...
(Exeter) - Robert Ranulph MarettRobert Ranulph MarettRobert Ranulph Marett was a British ethnologist from Jersey.Exponent of the British evolutionary school, he dealt with religious ethnology. In this field he modified the evolutionary scale of religion fixed by E. B. Tylor, which placed animism in the first place...
(Exeter) - James Cowles PrichardJames Cowles PrichardJames Cowles Prichard MD FRS was an English physician and ethnologist. His influential Researches into the physical history of mankind touched upon the subject of evolution...
(St John's and Trinity) - Walter Baldwin SpencerWalter Baldwin SpencerSir Walter Baldwin Spencer KCMG was a British-Australian biologist and anthropologist.Baldwin was born in Stretford, Lancashire. His father, Reuben Spencer, who had come from Derbyshire in his youth, obtained a position with Rylands and Sons, cotton manufacturers, and rose to be chairman of its...
(Exeter and Lincoln) - Colin TurnbullColin TurnbullColin Macmillan Turnbull was a British-American anthropologist who came to public attention with the popular books The Forest People and The Mountain People , and one of the first anthropologists to work in the field of ethnomusicology.-Early life:Turnbull was born in London and...
(Magdalen)
Sociology
- John GoldthorpeJohn GoldthorpeJohn Harry Goldthorpe FBA is a British sociologist and an emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. He works in the areas of social stratification, macrosociology, and recently cultural consumption...
(Nuffield) - Steven LukesSteven LukesSteven Michael Lukes is a political and social theorist. Currently he is a professor of politics and sociology at New York University...
(Balliol, Nuffield, and Worcester) - Bryan WilsonBryan R. WilsonBryan Ronald Wilson, , was Reader Emeritus in Sociology at the University of Oxford and President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion 1971-75.-Academic life:...
(All Souls) - Gordon Marshall (Nuffield) V-C University of Reading, formerly Chief Exec Economic & Social Research Council
- Ted NelsonTed NelsonTheodor Holm Nelson is an American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology. He coined the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia" in 1963 and published it in 1965...
(Wadham) - Ann OakleyAnn OakleyAnn Oakley is a distinguished British sociologist, feminist, and writer. She is Professor and Founder-Director of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London and in 2005 partially retired from full-time academic work to concentrate on her writing and...
(Somerville) - Sheila RowbothamSheila RowbothamSheila Rowbotham is a British socialist feminist theorist and writer.-Early life:Rowbotham was born in Leeds, the daughter of a salesman for an engineering company and an office clerk From an early age, she was deeply interested in history...
(St Hilda's)
Politics, political philosophy, and international relations
- Nayef Al-RodhanNayef Al-RodhanNayef Al-Rodhan,M.D., Ph.D, is a philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author. He is a Senior Member of St. Antony’s College at Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom., Senior Scholar in Geostrategy and Director of the Programme on the Geopolitics of Globalisation and Transnational...
(St Antony's) - Christopher BrewinChristopher BrewinChristopher Brewin is a British academic and expert on Cyprus. He has been Senior Lecturer in International Relations in Keele University, Staffordshire, England, since 1972.-Education:...
(St John's and Christ Church) - James BurnhamJames BurnhamJames Burnham was an American popular political theorist, best known for his influential work The Managerial Revolution, published in 1941. Burnham was a radical activist in the 1930s and an important factional leader of the American Trotskyist movement. In later years he left Marxism and produced...
(Balliol) - Alex CallinicosAlex CallinicosAlexander Theodore Callinicos is a Trotskyist political theorist, a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party and its International Secretary, and is Director of the Centre for European Studies at King's College London...
(Balliol) - James Corry Principal of Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) 1961-68
- David DilksDavid DilksDavid N. Dilks, PhD, FRHistS, FRSL, , is a British historian and emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Leeds. He was born in Foleshill, a suburb of Coventry, and attended The Royal Grammar School before winning a scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford, to read History...
(Hertford, St Antony's, & All Souls) Vice Chancellor of the University of Hull 1991–99 - Samuel FinerSamuel FinerProfessor Samuel Edward Finer was a political scientist and historian who was instrumental in advancing political studies as an academic subject in the United Kingdom, pioneering the study of UK political institutions...
(Trinity and Balliol) - Sir Lawrence FreedmanLawrence FreedmanSir Lawrence David Freedman, KCMG, CBE, PC, FBA, FKC is Professor of War Studies at King's College London, and was a foreign policy adviser to Tony Blair...
- Nikolas GvosdevNikolas GvosdevNikolas N. Gvosdev is the former Editor of the bi-monthly foreign policy journal, The National Interest. He was appointed to the post in 2005, after having been the journal's Executive Editor and the founding Editor of the journal's now-defunct separate web edition, In The National Interest...
(St Antony's) - Gerald CohenGerald CohenGerald Allan "Jerry" Cohen was a Marxist political philosopher, formerly Visiting Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College, London and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford...
(All Souls) - Fred HallidayFred HallidayFrederick Halliday, FBA was an Irish writer and academic specialising in International Relations and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Cold War, Iran, and the Arabian peninsula.-Biography:Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1946 to an English father, businessman Arthur Halliday, and an...
(The Queen's) - Robert D. Putnam(Balliol)
- Ted HodgettsJohn HodgettsJohn Edwin "Ted" Hodgetts, OC, FRSC was a Canadian political scientist who is considered the father of public administration studies in Canada....
Principal Victoria College Toronto 1967–69, President Victoria University 1970–72 - Raghavan N. Iyer (Magdalen, Nuffield, and St Antony's)
- Moses MorganMoses MorganMoses Osbourne Morgan, CC was a Canadian academic and president of Memorial University of Newfoundland from 1973 to 1981....
President of Memorial University of Newfoundland 1973–81 - Thomas NossiterThomas NossiterThomas Johnson Nossiter was Professor of Government at the London School of Economics from 1989 until 1994.-Early life:...
(Exeter and Nuffield) Professor of Government LSE 1989–94 - Anne-Marie SlaughterAnne-Marie SlaughterAnne-Marie Slaughter was the Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department from January 2009 until February 2011. She is the Bert G...
(Worcester) Dean Woodrow Wilson Sch of Public & International Affairs Princeton Univ - Helen Wallace, Baroness Wallace of SaltaireHelen WallaceDame Helen Sarah Wallace, Lady Wallace of Saltaire, DBE, CMG, FBA , née Rushworth, is a British expert in European Studies and, by marriage to William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire, a peeress....
- Michael SandelMichael SandelMichael J. Sandel is an American political philosopher and a professor at Harvard University. He is best known for the Harvard course 'Justice' which is available to , and for his critique of Rawls' A Theory of Justice in his Liberalism and the Limits of Justice...
(Balliol) Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University - Graham WallasGraham WallasGraham Wallas was an English socialist, social psychologist, educationalist, a leader of the Fabian Society and a co-founder of the London School of Economics....
(Corpus Christi) - Rosemary Foot (St. Antony's)Professor of International Relations, and John Swire Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Univ
- Naomi WolfNaomi WolfNaomi Wolf is an American author and political consultant. With the publication of The Beauty Myth, she became a leading spokesperson of what was later described as the third wave of the feminist movement.-Biography:...
(New College) - Joseph NyeJoseph NyeJoseph Samuel Nye, Jr. is the co-founder, along with Robert Keohane, of the international relations theory neoliberalism, developed in their 1977 book Power and Interdependence. Together with Keohane, he developed the concepts of asymmetrical and complex interdependence...
(Exeter) - Mark BevirMark BevirMark Bevir is a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he currently teaches courses on political theory and philosophy, and public policy and organization....
- Jeremy WaldronJeremy WaldronJeremy Waldron is professor of law and philosophy at the New York University School of Law and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford University.-Career:...
(All Souls) - Nancy Bermeo (Nuffield)
Asian studies
- Ian BurumaIan BurumaBuruma is a nephew of the English film director John Schlesinger, a series of interviews with whom he published in book form.-Works:*The Japanese Tattoo with Donald Richie ISBN 978-0-8348-0228-5...
(St Antony's) - David HawkesDavid Hawkes (scholar)David Hawkes was a British Sinologist. He studied Mandarin Chinese and Japanese at Oxford University between 1945 and 1947 and was a research student at the National Peking University from 1948 to 1951. During the later years of World War II he taught Japanese to military cryptolinguists and...
(All Souls) - Jessica RawsonJessica RawsonJessica Rawson, DBE, FBA is an English art historian, curator and academic administrator, specializing in Chinese art. After many years at the British Museum, she was Warden of Merton College, Oxford, from 1994 until her retirement in 2010...
(Merton) - William Edward SoothillWilliam Edward SoothillWilliam Edward Soothill was a Methodist missionary to China who later became Professor of Chinese at Oxford University and a leading British sinologist.Born in Halifax, Yorkshire in January 1861, Soothill matriculated at London University...
- Richard Carnac TempleRichard Carnac TempleSir Richard Carnac Temple CIE was the British Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and an anthropological writer.-Army and political career:...
- Richard Olaf WinstedtRichard Olaf WinstedtSir Richard Olaf Winstedt , or more commonly R.O. Winstedt, was an English Orientalist and colonial administrator with expertise in British Malaya.-Early life and education:...
(New College) - James LeggeJames LeggeJames Legge was a noted Scottish sinologist, a Scottish Congregationalist, representative of the London Missionary Society in Malacca and Hong Kong , and first professor of Chinese at Oxford University...
(Corpus Christi) - Vivienne Shue (St. Antony's)
Mathematicians and statisticians
- John Macleod Ball
- Simon BredonSimon BredonSimon Bredon was an English astronomer, mathematician, and physician. He was a member of the Merton School, Oxford, elected a Fellow of Merton c. 1330, perhaps until the year 1342, having formerly been a member of Balliol. He was a Doctor of Medicine of the University of Oxford...
(Balliol and Merton) - Mary CartwrightMary CartwrightDame Mary Lucy Cartwright DBE FRS was a leading 20th-century British mathematician. She was born in Aynho, Northamptonshire where her father was the vicar and died in Cambridge, England...
(St Hugh's) - Marcus du SautoyMarcus du SautoyMarcus Peter Francis du Sautoy OBE is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. Formerly a Fellow of All Souls College, and Wadham College, he is now a Fellow of New College...
(All Souls and Wadham) - Leslie FoxLeslie FoxLeslie Fox was a British mathematician noted for his contribution to numerical analysis.Fox studied mathematics as a scholar of Christ Church, Oxford graduating with a First in 1939 and continued to undertake research in the engineering department. While working on his D.Phil...
(Christ Church and Balliol) - W. S. Gosset (New College)
- Brian GreeneBrian GreeneBrian Greene is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi-Yau manifolds...
- Edmund GunterEdmund GunterEdmund Gunter , English mathematician, of Welsh descent, was born in Hertfordshire in 1581.He was educated at Westminster School, and in 1599 was elected a student of Christ Church, Oxford. He took orders, became a preacher in 1614, and in 1615 proceeded to the degree of bachelor in divinity...
(Christ Church) - Peter HiltonPeter HiltonPeter John Hilton was a British mathematician, noted for his contributions to homotopy theory and for code-breaking during the Second World War.-Life:Hilton was born in London, and educated at St Paul's School...
(The Queen's) Professor Univ of Birmingham, Cornell Univ, Case Western Reserve Univ, Binghamton Univ, and Univ of Central Florida - Nigel HitchinNigel HitchinNigel Hitchin is a British mathematician working in the fields of differential geometry, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics.-Academic career:...
(Jesus, Wolfson, and New College) - Ioan JamesIoan JamesIoan Mackenzie James is a British mathematician working in the field of topology particularly in homotopy theory.James was born in Croydon, Surrey, England, and was educated at St Paul's School, London and Queen's College, Oxford. In 1953 He earned a D. Phil...
(The Queen's and New College) - Frances KirwanFrances KirwanFrances Clare Kirwan, FRS is a British mathematician, currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.Educated at Oxford High School, she studied at the University of Cambridge. She took a D.Phil at Oxford in 1984, supervised by Michael Atiyah...
(Magdalen and Balliol) - Ruth LawrenceRuth LawrenceRuth Elke Lawrence-Naimark is an Associate Professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology. Outside academia, she is best known for being a child prodigy in mathematics.- Youth :Ruth Lawrence...
(St Hugh's) - Holbrook Mann MacNeilleHolbrook Mann MacNeilleHolbrook Mann MacNeille was an American mathematician who worked for the United States Atomic Energy Commission before becoming the first Executive Director of the American Mathematical Society.-Personal life:...
(Balliol) - Claus Moser, Baron MoserClaus Moser, Baron MoserClaus Adolf Moser, Baron Moser, KCB, CBE is a British statistician who has made major contributions in both academia and the Civil Service...
(Nuffield and Wadham) - Bernard SilvermanBernard SilvermanBernard Silverman FRS is a British statistician. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009...
(University and St Peter's) - Henry John Stephen SmithHenry John Stephen SmithHenry John Stephen Smith was a mathematician remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, and Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula in number theory...
(Balliol) - G. Spencer-BrownG. Spencer-BrownGeorge Spencer-Brown is a polymath best known as the author of Laws of Form. He describes himself as a "mathematician, consulting engineer, psychologist, educational consultant and practitioner, consulting psychotherapist, author, and poet.".-Life:Spencer-Brown passed the First M.B...
(Christ Church) - Martin J. TaylorMartin J. TaylorSir Martin John Taylor FRS was professor of pure mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester and, prior to its formation and merger, UMIST where he was appointed to a chair after moving from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1986...
(Pembroke) Prof Pure Mathematics UMIST 1986-2004, Manchester 2004-, Pres London Mathematical Soc 1998-2000, Vice-Pres Royal Soc 2004- - Richard TaylorRichard Taylor (mathematician)-External links:**...
(New College) - J. H. C. WhiteheadJ. H. C. WhiteheadJohn Henry Constantine Whitehead FRS , known as Henry, was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Chennai , in India, and died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1960....
(Balliol and Magdalen) - Andrew WilesAndrew WilesSir Andrew John Wiles KBE FRS is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory...
(Merton)
Naturalists, botanists, and zoologists
- Joseph BanksJoseph BanksSir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage . Banks is credited with the introduction to the Western world of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa and the genus named after him,...
(Christ Church) - Jonathan BorweinJonathan BorweinJonathan Michael Borwein is a Scottish mathematician who holds an appointment as Laureate Professor of mathematics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Noted for his prolific and creative work throughout the international mathematical community, he is a close associate of David H...
(Jesus) - Sydney BrennerSydney BrennerSydney Brenner, CH FRS is a South African biologist and a 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, shared with H...
(Exeter) - John Bretland FarmerJohn Bretland FarmerSir John Bretland Farmer FRS was a British botanist, born at Atherstone and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was fellow of Magdalen in 1889–1897, demonstrator of botany in 1887–1892, and assistant professor of biology in 1892–1895 at Oxford, and then became professor of botany in the ...
(Magdalen) - Anne BrewisAnne BrewisLady Anne Brewis, daughter of Roundell Cecil Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne, was an English botanist. As a child, Brewis had spent long holidays studying the orchids on Noar Hill, near Selborne. This led her to study the works of Gilbert White, and eventually to a degree in Zoology at Somerville...
(Somerville) - Francis Trevelyan BucklandFrancis Trevelyan BucklandFrancis Trevelyan Buckland was an English surgeon, zoologist, popular author and natural historian. He was the son of William Buckland, the noted geologist and palaeontologist.- Life :...
- William BucklandWilliam BucklandThe Very Rev. Dr William Buckland DD FRS was an English geologist, palaeontologist and Dean of Westminster, who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, which he named Megalosaurus...
(Christ Church) - Neil ChalmersNeil ChalmersSir Neil Chalmers, formerly Director of the Natural History Museum in London, is Warden of Wadham College, Oxford.Neil Chalmers was educated at King's College School, Magdalen College, Oxford, and St John's College, Cambridge....
(Magdalen and Wadham) - Ian ChubbIan ChubbIan William Chubb, AC is the Chief Scientist of Australia. He has held this post since 2011. He was also the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University from 2001 to 2011, and president of the International Alliance of Research Universities from 2006 to 2009...
- Richard DawkinsRichard DawkinsClinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL , known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author...
(Balliol) - Jeremy GreenwoodJeremy GreenwoodJeremy John Denis Greenwood CBE is a British ornithologist and was Director of the British Trust for Ornithology from 1988 until he retired in September 2007....
(St Catherine's) - J. B. S. Haldane (New College)
- W. D. HamiltonW. D. HamiltonWilliam Donald Hamilton FRS was a British evolutionary biologist, widely recognised as one of the greatest evolutionary theorists of the 20th century....
(New College) - Alister HardyAlister HardySir Alister Clavering Hardy, FRS was an English marine biologist, expert on zooplankton and marine ecosystems...
(Exeter, Merton, and Manchester) - John Kidd (Christ Church)
- John KrebsJohn KrebsJohn Richard Krebs, Baron Krebs FRS is a world leader in zoology and more specifically bird behaviour. He is currently the Principal of Jesus College, Oxford University...
(Pembroke and Jesus) - Amory LovinsAmory LovinsAmory Bloch Lovins is an American environmental scientist and writer, Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He has worked in the field of energy policy and related areas for four decades...
(Magdalen and Merton) - Anne McLarenAnne McLarenThe Hon. Dame Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren, DBE, FRS, FRCOG was the daughter of Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway and Christabel McNaughten. She became a leading figure in developmental biology. Her work helped lead to human in vitro fertilisation...
(Lady Margaret Hall) - Peter MedawarPeter MedawarSir Peter Brian Medawar OM CBE FRS was a British biologist, whose work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance was fundamental to the practice of tissue and organ transplants...
(Magdalen) - Gavin MaxwellGavin MaxwellGavin Maxwell FRSL, FIAL, FZS , FRGS was a Scottish naturalist and author, best known for his work with otters. He wrote the book Ring of Bright Water about how he brought an otter back from Iraq and raised it in Scotland...
(Hertford) - Robert May, Baron May of OxfordRobert May, Baron May of OxfordRobert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, OM, AC, PRS is an Australian scientist who has been Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a Professor at Sydney and Princeton. He now holds joint professorships at Oxford, and Imperial College London...
(Merton) - Robert PlotRobert PlotRobert Plot was an English naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum....
(Magdalen Hall) - David QuammenDavid QuammenDavid Quammen is a science, nature and travel writer whose work has appeared in publications such as National Geographic, Outside, Harper's, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times Book Review....
(Merton) - Matthew RidleyMatt RidleyMatthew White Ridley, FRSL, FMedSci is an English journalist, writer, biologist, and businessman.-Career:...
(Magdalen) - Charles Sherrington (Magdalen)
- Richard SouthwoodRichard SouthwoodSir Thomas Richard Edmund Southwood DL, FRS was Professor of zoology and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford....
(Merton) - Nikolaas TinbergenNikolaas TinbergenNikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen was a Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns in animals.In the 1960s he...
(Merton)
Medicine
- Donald AchesonDonald AchesonSir Donald Acheson KBE was a British physician and epidemiologist who served as Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom from 1983–91...
(Brasenose and University) Chief Medical Officer 1983–1991 - Henry Wentworth Acland (Christ Church and All Souls)
- Josephine BarnesJosephine BarnesDame Alice Josephine Mary Taylor Barnes, DBE , known professionally as Dr. Josephine Barnes, was a leading obstetrician and gynaecologist....
(Lady Margaret Hall) - George Wells Beadle (Balliol)
- Claude BertrandClaude Bertrand (neurosurgeon)Claude Bertrand, is a Canadian neurosurgeon.Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1934 and a Doctor of Medicine from Université de Montréal in 1940...
- Baruch Samuel BlumbergBaruch Samuel BlumbergBaruch Samuel "Barry" Blumberg was an American doctor and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , and the President of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death.Blumberg received the Nobel Prize for "discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin...
(Balliol) - Russell Brain, 1st Baron BrainRussell Brain, 1st Baron BrainWalter Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain was a British neurologist. He was principal author of the standard work of neurology, Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System, and longtime editor of the eponymous neurological medical journal titled Brain...
- Robert BurtonRobert Burton (scholar)Robert Burton was an English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic The Anatomy of Melancholy. He was also the incumbent of St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, and of Segrave in Leicestershire.-Life:...
(Brasenose) - Sheila CassidySheila CassidyDr. Sheila Cassidy is an English doctor, known for her work in the hospice movement, as a writer and as someone who, by publicising her own history as a torture survivor, drew attention to human rights abuse in Chile in the 1970s.-Early life:Cassidy grew up in Sydney, and attended the Our Lady of...
(Somerville) - Ernest Chain (University)
- Richard DollRichard DollSir William Richard Shaboe Doll CH OBE FRS was a British physiologist who became the foremost epidemiologist of the 20th century, turning the subject into a rigorous science. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems...
(Christ Church) - John Carew EcclesJohn Carew EcclesJohn Carew Eccles, AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAAS was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin....
(Magdalen) - J. R. EvansJohn Robert EvansJohn Robert Evans, is a Canadian pediatrician, academic, businessperson, and civic leader.After graduating from the University of Toronto Schools, he received his medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1952 and was a Rhodes Scholar...
President University of Toronto 1972–78, Director Population, Health, & Nutrition World Bank 1979–83 - William FeindelWilliam FeindelWilliam Howard Feindel, is a Canadian neurosurgeon, scientist and professor.Born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, he received a B.A. in Biology from Acadia University in 1939, a M.Sc. from Dalhousie University in 1942, and an MDCM from McGill University in 1945. Attending Merton College, Oxford as a...
(Merton) - Howard Florey (Lincoln, The Queen's, and Magdalen)
- John FreindJohn FreindJohn Freind , FRS, was an English physician.-Life:He was younger brother of Robert Freind , headmaster of Westminster School, and was born at Croton in Northamptonshire...
(Christ Church) - Archibald GarrodArchibald GarrodSir Archibald Edward Garrod KCMG, FRS was an English physician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism.- Education and Personal Life :...
(Christ Church) - Atul GawandeAtul GawandeAtul Gawande is an American physician and journalist. He serves as a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and associate director of their Center for Surgery and Public Health...
(Balliol) - Roy MeadowRoy MeadowSir Samuel Roy Meadow is a British paediatrician and professor, who rose to initial fame for his 1977 academic paper on the now controversial Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy and his crusade against parents who, he believes, wilfully harm or kill their children. He was knighted for these works...
(Worcester) - Richard MortonRichard Morton (physician)Richard Morton was an English physician who was the first to state that tubercles were always present in the tuberculosis disease of the lungs. In Morton's time, this wasting disease was termed consumption, or by its Greek name of phthisis...
(Magdalen Hall) - David NaylorDavid NaylorChristopher David Naylor, OC, FRCPC, FRSC is a medical researcher and president of the University of Toronto.-Biography:...
(Hertford) President University of Toronto 2005– - Paul NursePaul NurseSir Paul Maxime Nurse, PRS is a British geneticist and cell biologist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and R...
(Linacre) - Severo OchoaSevero OchoaSevero Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish-American doctor and biochemist, and joint winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Arthur Kornberg.-Early life:...
- William OslerWilliam OslerSir William Osler, 1st Baronet was a physician. He was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at Johns Hopkins Hospital as the first Professor of Medicine and founder of the Medical Service there. Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet (July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a physician. He was...
(Christ Church) - Wilder PenfieldWilder PenfieldWilder Graves Penfield, OM, CC, CMG, FRS was an American born Canadian neurosurgeon. During his life he was called "the greatest living Canadian"...
- Thomas Phaer sometime Member of Parliament for Cardigan
- Rodney Porter (Trinity)
- John Radcliffe (University)
- Oliver SacksOliver SacksOliver Wolf Sacks, CBE , is a British neurologist and psychologist residing in New York City. He is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University, where he also holds the position of Columbia Artist...
(The Queen's) - Cicely SaundersCicely SaundersDame Cicely Mary Saunders, was a prominent Anglican, nurse, physician and writer, involved with many international universities...
(St Anne's) - Charles SingerCharles SingerCharles Joseph Singer was a British historian of science, technology, and medicine.-Early years:Singer was born in Camberwell in London, where his father Simeon Singer was a minister and Hebraist. He was educated at City of London School, University College London, and Magdalen College, Oxford...
(Magdalen) - Oliver SmithiesOliver SmithiesOliver Smithies is a British-born American geneticist and Nobel laureate, credited with the invention of gel electrophoresis in 1955, and the simultaneous discovery, with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, of the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA, a much more...
(Balliol) - Elsdon StoreyElsdon StoreyElsdon Storey is an Australian neurologist, Rhode's Scholar & Professor of Neurology at Monash University. His clinical and research interests are in neurogenetics and behavioural neurology ....
- Thomas StuttafordThomas StuttafordDr Irving Thomas Stuttaford OBE, is a British doctor, author, medical columnist of The Times and former Conservative Member of Parliament. In 2002 he retired as Senior Medical Advisor for Barclays Bank.-Politics:...
(Brasenose) The Times medical expert, Member of Parliament 1970–74 - Robert TwycrossRobert TwycrossRobert Twycross is a retired British physician and writer. He was a pioneer of the hospice movement during the 1970s, when he helped palliative care gain recognition as an accepted field of modern medicine....
- John Robert VaneJohn Robert VaneSir John Robert Vane FRS was an English pharmacologist and Nobel Laureate, born in Tardebigg, Worcestershire. His father was the son of Russian immigrants and his mother came from a Worcestershire farming family. He was educated at King Edward's School in Edgbaston, Birmingham, and studied...
(St Catherine's) - Arthur VidrineArthur VidrineArthur Vidrine was a physician from Ville Platte, the seat of Evangeline Parish in south Louisiana, who was best known for having operated on Democratic U.S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr., after Long was shot on September 8, 1935, in the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, presumably by another...
- Diana WalfordDiana WalfordDiana Marion Walford CBE was, until August 2011, Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford.Diana Marion Walford, née Norton, was born on 26 February 1944, the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Norton and Thelma Norton, née Norton ....
(Mansfield) - Thomas WillisThomas WillisThomas Willis was an English doctor who played an important part in the history of anatomy, neurology and psychiatry. He was a founding member of the Royal Society.-Life:...
(Christ Church)
Psychologists, psychiatrists, and physiologists of the brain
- Stephen J. Bergman (Samuel Shem)Samuel ShemSamuel Shem is the pen-name of the American psychiatrist Stephen Joseph Bergman . His main works are The House of God and Mount Misery, both fictional but close-to-real first-hand descriptions of the training of doctors in the United States.Bergman was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford in...
(Balliol) - Wilfred BionWilfred BionWilfred Ruprecht Bion DSO was an influential British psychoanalyst, who became president of the British Psychoanalytical Society from 1962 to 1965....
(The Queen's) - Chris BrandChris BrandChristopher Richard Brand is an English psychological and psychometric researcher who gained media attention for his controversial statements on race and intelligence and pedophilia. He went to Queen Elizabeth's, Barnet, and is a graduate of The Queen's College, Oxford, and a fellow of Nuffield...
(The Queen's and Nuffield) - Donald BroadbentDonald BroadbentDonald Eric Broadbent FRS was an influential English experimental psychologist. His career and his research work bridged the gap between the pre-Second World War approach of Sir Frederic Bartlett and its wartime development into applied psychology, and what from the late 1960s became known as...
(Wolfson) - Fiona CaldicottFiona CaldicottDame Fiona Caldicott, DBE, FRCPsych, FRCP, FRCPI, FRCGP, FMedSci, is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist and, previously, Principal of Somerville College, Oxford....
(St Hilda's and Somerville) - Gordon ClaridgeGordon ClaridgeGordon Sidney Claridge is a British psychologist and author, best known for his theoretical and empirical work on the concept of schizotypy or psychosis-proneness.- Biography :...
(Magdalen) - Hervey M. CleckleyHervey M. CleckleyDr. Hervey Milton Cleckley was an American psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of psychopathy. His book, The Mask of Sanity, originally published in 1941, provided the most influential clinical description of psychopathy in the 20th Century...
- Simon Baron-CohenSimon Baron-CohenSimon Baron-Cohen FBA is professor of Developmental Psychopathology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He is the Director of the University's Autism Research Centre, and a Fellow of Trinity College...
(New College) - Adrian FurnhamAdrian FurnhamAdrian Furnham is a South African-born British organisational and applied psychologist, management expert and Professor of Psychology at University College London...
(Pembroke) - Jeffrey Alan GrayJeffrey Alan GrayJeffrey Alan Gray was a British psychologist. He was born in the East End of London. His father was a tailor, but died when Jeffrey was only seven. His mother, who ran a haberdashery, brought him up alone....
(Magdalen) - Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness GreenfieldSusan GreenfieldSusan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, CBE is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords. Greenfield, whose specialty is the physiology of the brain, has worked to research and bring attention to Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.Greenfield is...
(St Hilda's and Lincoln) - Miles HewstoneMiles HewstoneMiles Hewstone is a leading social psychologist who is well-known for his work on social relations.He graduated from the University of Bristol in 1978 and then moved to the University of Oxford from which he obtained a D.Phil. in social psychology in 1981. He pursued post-doctoral work at the...
(New College) - Charles McCreeryCharles McCreeryCharles Anthony Selby McCreery is a British psychologist and author, best known for his collaboration with Celia Green on work on hallucinatory states in normal people.- Biography :...
(New College and Magdalen) - Edward Thomas Monro (Oriel)
- Henry Monro (Oriel)
- James Monro (Balliol)
- John Monro (St John's and University)
- Thomas Monro (Oriel)
- Shirley PearceShirley PearceProfessor Shirley Pearce CBE BA MPhil PhD is Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University, a position she has held since January 2006, and will resign at the end of the 2011-2012 academic year. Before becoming the University's 7th Vice-Chancellor Professor Pearce was a Professor of Health Psychology...
(St Anne's) - Adrian RaineAdrian RaineAdrian Raine is a British psychologist. He currently holds the chair of Richard Perry University Professor of Criminology & Psychiatry in the Department of Criminology of the School of Arts and Sciences and in the Department of Psychiatry of the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania...
- Edmund RollsEdmund RollsProfessor Edmund T. Rolls is a psychologist and neuroscientist. He has served as Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, Vice President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and currently serves as an Honorary Fellow in Applied Neuroimaging at the University of Warwick.He has...
(Corpus Christi) - Stuart SutherlandStuart SutherlandNorman Stuart Sutherland , always known professionally as Stuart Sutherland, was a British psychologist and writer....
(Magdalen) - Lawrence WeiskrantzLawrence WeiskrantzLawrence Weiskrantz is a British psychologist, who discovered the phenomenon of blindsight, which is the voluntary visually evoked response to a stimulus presented within a scotoma.-Career:* Part-time Lecturer, Tufts University, 1952...
(Magdalen) - Simon WesselySimon WesselySimon Wessely is a British psychiatrist. He is professor of epidemiological and liaison psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and Head of its department of psychological medicine, Vice Dean for Academic Psychiatry, Teaching and Training at the Institute of Psychiatry, as...
(University)
Chemists
- Mary Archer, Baroness Archer of Weston-super-MareMary Archer, Baroness Archer of Weston-super-MareMary Doreen Archer, Baroness Archer of Weston-super-Mare is a British scientist specialising in solar power conversion. She studied chemistry at St Anne's College, Oxford, and physical chemistry at Imperial College London, before becoming a Cambridge University lecturer...
(St Anne's) - Peter AtkinsPeter AtkinsPeter William Atkins is a British chemist and former Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics...
(Lincoln) - Robert BoyleRobert BoyleRobert Boyle FRS was a 17th century natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor, also noted for his writings in theology. He has been variously described as English, Irish, or Anglo-Irish, his father having come to Ireland from England during the time of the English plantations of...
(University) - Abdus Suttar KhanAbdus Suttar KhanDr. Abdus Suttar Khan was a Bangladeshi Oxford Scholar and distinguished aerospace researcher for four decades with NASA, Pratt & Whitney, and the power generation company Alstom .- Early life and education :...
(St. Catherine's) - E. J. BowenE. J. BowenEdmund John Bowen FRS was a British chemist. Born in Worcester, E. J. Bowen attended the Royal Grammar School Worcester. He won the Brackenbury Scholarship in 1915 and 1916 to Oxford University where he studied chemistry...
(Balliol) - Humphry BowenHumphry BowenHumphry John Moule Bowen was a British botanist and chemist.Bowen was born in Oxford, son of the chemist Edmund Bowen. He attended the Dragon School, gaining a scholarship to Rugby School and then a demyship to Magdalen College, Oxford...
(Magdalen) - David ClaryDavid ClaryDavid Clary, FRS is a British theoretical chemist. He has been President of Magdalen College, Oxford since 2005.-Life:He attended Colchester Royal Grammar School from 1964–71. He has a BSc from the University of Sussex and a PhD and ScD from the University of Cambridge, where he was at Corpus...
(St John's and Magdalen) - John CornforthJohn CornforthSir John Warcup 'Kappa' Cornforth, AC, CBE, FRS , is an Australian scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions....
(St Catherine's) - Charles DaubenyCharles DaubenyCharles Giles Bridle Daubeny was an English chemist, botanist and geologist.Daubeny was born at Stratton near Cirencester in Gloucestershire, the son of the Rev. James Daubeny. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford under Dr. John Kidd...
(Magdalen) - Roger GaudryRoger GaudryRoger Gaudry, was a Canadian chemist, businessman, corporate director, and former rector of the Université de Montréal....
Rector Université de Montréal 1965–75 - Dalziel HammickDalziel HammickDalziel Llewellyn Hammick FRS , was an English research chemist. His major work was in synthetic organic chemistry. He promulgated Hammick's rule, which predicts the order of substitution in benzene derivatives, while the Hammick reaction is used in the synthesis of larger molecules.-Early life:The...
(Magdalen) - Cyril Norman HinshelwoodCyril Norman HinshelwoodSir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood OM PRS was an English physical chemist.Born in London, his parents were Norman Macmillan Hinshelwood, a chartered accountant, and Ethe Frances née Smith. He was educated first in Canada, returning in 1905 on the death of his father to a small flat in Chelsea where he...
(Balliol) - Dorothy Hodgkin (Somerville)
- Frederick L. HovdeFrederick L. HovdeFrederick Lawson Hovde was an American chemical engineer, researcher, educator and president of Purdue University.Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, Hovde received his Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, where he played on the football team...
- Jeremy KnowlesJeremy R. KnowlesJeremy Randall Knowles, CBE, FRS was a professor of chemistry at Harvard University, was Dean of the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1991 to 2002. He joined Harvard in 1974, received many awards for his research, and remained at Harvard until his death, leaving the faculty...
(Balliol and Wadham) - Michael MingosMichael MingosDavid Michael Patrick Mingos FRS was Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 1999 to 2009, and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in the University of Oxford...
(Keble and St Edmund Hall) - Robert Mulliken (St John's)
- Linus PaulingLinus PaulingLinus Carl Pauling was an American chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He was one of the most influential chemists in history and ranks among the most important scientists of the 20th century...
(Balliol) - Rex Richards (Lincoln, Exeter, and Merton)
- Robert Robinson (Magdalen)
- Francis SimonFrancis SimonSir Francis Simon, born Franz Eugen Simon , was a German and later British physical chemist and physicist who devised the method, and confirmed its feasibility, of separating the isotope Uranium-235 and thus made a major contribution to the creation of the atomic bomb.-Early life:He was born to a...
(Christ Church) - James SmithsonJames SmithsonJames Smithson, FRS, M.A. was a British mineralogist and chemist noted for having left a bequest in his will to the United States of America, to create "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men" to be called the Smithsonian Institution.-Biography:Not much is known...
(Pembroke) - Frederick SoddyFrederick SoddyFrederick Soddy was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements...
(Merton) - Alexander ToddAlexander R. Todd, Baron ToddAlexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd, OM, PRS FRSE was a Scottish biochemist whose research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the 1957 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.Todd was born near Glasgow, attended Allan Glen's School and graduated from...
(Oriel) - John E. WalkerJohn E. WalkerProfessor Sir John Ernest Walker is an English chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997. He is currently the director of the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College.He was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, the son of Thomas Ernest Walker, a...
(St Catherine's) - Michael Stanley WhittinghamM Stanley WhittinghamM. Stanley Whittingham is an American chemist. He is currently a professor of chemistry and director of both the Institute for Materials Research and the Materials Science and Engineering program at Binghamton University.- Education and career :Whittingham read Chemistry at the University of...
- Ahmed ZewailAhmed ZewailAhmed Hassan Zewail is an Egyptian-American scientist who won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. He is the Linus Pauling Chair Professor Chemistry and Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology.- Birth and education :Ahmed Zewail was born on...
(St Catherine's)
Astronomers Royal
- Edmund Halley (The Queen's) 1720–42
- James BradleyJames BradleyJames Bradley FRS was an English astronomer and served as Astronomer Royal from 1742, succeeding Edmund Halley. He is best known for two fundamental discoveries in astronomy, the aberration of light , and the nutation of the Earth's axis...
(Balliol) 1742–62 - Nathaniel BlissNathaniel BlissThe Reverend Nathaniel Bliss was an English astronomer of the 18th century, serving as Britain's fourth Astronomer Royal between 1762 and 1764....
(Pembroke) 1762-64 - Martin RyleMartin RyleSir Martin Ryle was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources...
(Christ Church) 1972–82
Other physicists and astronomers
- Roger CashmoreRoger CashmoreRoger John Cashmore CMG is the Chair of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Previously he was Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford and Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford....
(Balliol, University, Christ Church, Merton, and Brasenose) - Stephen HawkingStephen HawkingStephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity...
(University) - Robert HookeRobert HookeRobert Hooke FRS was an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath.His adult life comprised three distinct periods: as a scientific inquirer lacking money; achieving great wealth and standing through his reputation for hard work and scrupulous honesty following the great fire of 1666, but...
(Christ Church) - Edwin HubbleEdwin HubbleEdwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer who profoundly changed the understanding of the universe by confirming the existence of galaxies other than the Milky Way - our own galaxy...
(The Queen's) - Leonard HuxleyLeonard Huxley (physicist)Sir Leonard George Holden Huxley KBE was an Australian physicist.Huxley was born in London, the eldest son of George Hamborough and Lilian Huxley. He was a second-cousin once removed of Thomas Huxley...
- Anthony LeggettAnthony James LeggettSir Anthony James Leggett, KBE, FRS , aka Tony Leggett, has been a Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1983....
- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellFrederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellFrederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell FRS PC CH was an English physicist who was an influential scientific adviser to the British government, particularly Winston Churchill...
(Christ Church) - John MaddoxJohn MaddoxSir John Royden Maddox, FRS was a British science writer. He was an editor of Nature for 22 years, from 1966–1973 and 1980-1995.-Career:...
(Christ Church) - Brian G. MarsdenBrian G. MarsdenBrian Geoffrey Marsden was a British astronomer born in Cambridge, England, and educated at The Perse School in Cambridge, New College, Oxford and Yale University. Dr...
(New College) - Roger PenroseRoger PenroseSir Roger Penrose OM FRS is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College...
- Norman Ramsey (Balliol)
- Erwin SchrödingerErwin SchrödingerErwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist and theoretical biologist who was one of the fathers of quantum mechanics, and is famed for a number of important contributions to physics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933...
(Magdalen) - John Hasbrouck van VleckJohn Hasbrouck van VleckJohn Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist and mathematician, co-awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics, for his contributions to the understanding of the behavior of electrons in magnetic solids....
(Balliol) - Denys WilkinsonDenys WilkinsonSir Denys Haigh Wilkinson FRS is a British nuclear physicist. He was educated at Loughborough Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He holds the higher degree of ScD, an HonFilDr degree and an HonLLD degree...
(Christ Church) - Stephen WolframStephen WolframStephen Wolfram is a British scientist and the chief designer of the Mathematica software application and the Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine.- Biography :...
(St John's) - Dennis Sciama
- John D. BarrowJohn D. Barrow-External links:****** The Forum-Publications available on the Internet:************...
- Willis LambWillis LambWillis Eugene Lamb, Jr. was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 together with Polykarp Kusch "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum". Lamb and Kusch were able to precisely determine certain electromagnetic properties of the electron...
- Klaus von KlitzingKlaus von KlitzingKlaus von Klitzing is a German physicist known for discovery of the integer quantum Hall Effect, for which he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics....
- John Clive WardJohn Clive WardJohn Clive Ward , was a British-Australian physicist. His most famous creation was the Ward-Takahashi identity, originally known as "Ward Identity" . This celebrated result, in quantum electrodynamics, was inspired by a conjecture of Dyson and was disclosed in a one-half page letter typical of...
- Richard WilsonRichard Wilson (physicist)Richard Wilson is a British physicist. He has been a faculty member at Harvard University since 1955 and is currently the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, emeritus. He is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.-Education:Wilson was educated at St. Paul's School in...
(Christ Church)
Computers, electronics, and robotics
- Samson AbramskySamson AbramskySamson D. Abramsky FRS, FRSE is a computer scientist who currently holds the Christopher Strachey Professorship at Oxford University Computing Laboratory. He is well known for playing a leading role in the development of game semantics...
(Wolfson) - Tim Berners Lee (The Queen's)
- Richard Bird (Lincoln)
- Jonathan BowenJonathan BowenJonathan P. Bowen FBCS FRSA is a British computer scientist. He is Chairman of Museophile Limited, an Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University where he has headed the Centre for Applied Formal Methods, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Westminster...
(University) - Edgar F. CoddEdgar F. CoddEdgar Frank "Ted" Codd was an English computer scientist who, while working for IBM, invented the relational model for database management, the theoretical basis for relational databases...
(Exeter) - David GavaghanDavid GavaghanProfessor David Gavaghan, B.Sc. , MA, M.Sc., D.Phil. is the director of the Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Training Centre, Principal Investigator of the Integrative Biology project at the University of Oxford, and Research Fellow in Mathematics at New College, Oxford.-External...
(New College) - Joseph GoguenJoseph GoguenJoseph Amadee Goguen was a computer science professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, USA, who helped develop the OBJ family of programming languages. He was author of A Categorical Manifesto and founder and Editor-in-Chief of the...
(St Anne's) - Ralph HartleyRalph HartleyRalph Vinton Lyon Hartley was an electronics researcher. He invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory.-Biography:...
- C. A. R. Hoare (Merton)
- Cliff Jones
- Peter MossesPeter MossesPeter D. Mosses is a British computer scientist.Peter Mosses studied mathematics as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Oxford, and went on to undertake a DPhil supervised by Christopher Strachey in the Programming Research Group while at Wolfson College, Oxford in the early 1970s...
(Trinity and Wolfson) - Mike Reed (St Edmund Hall)
- Bill RoscoeBill RoscoeA. William "Bill" Roscoe is a Scottish computer scientist. He is Head of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford and a Professor of Computing Science...
(University) - Martin SmithMartin Smith (academic)Martin Smith is Visiting Research Professor in Robotics at the Open University. He is also President of the Cybernetics Society in the UK. Previous positions were Professor at the University of Central England and at the University of East London where he set up the Mobile Robots Research...
(St John's) - Joe StoyJoe StoyJoseph E. "Joe" Stoy is a British computer scientist. He originally studied physics at Oxford University. Early in his career, in the 1970s, he worked on denotational semantics with Christopher Strachey in the Programming Research Group at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory. He was a Fellow...
(Balliol) - Christopher StracheyChristopher StracheyChristopher Strachey was a British computer scientist. He was one of the founders of denotational semantics, and a pioneer in programming language design...
- David TurnerDavid Turner (computer scientist)Professor David Turner is a British computer scientist.He has a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. He has held professorships at Queen Mary College, London, University of Texas at Austin and the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he now retains the post of Emeritus Professor.He is...
- Robert J. Van de GraaffRobert J. Van de GraaffRobert Jemison Van de Graaff, was an American physicist, noted for his design and construction of high voltage generators, who taught at Princeton University and MIT.-Biography:...
- Jim WoodcockJim WoodcockProfessor Jim C. P. Woodcock FRSA FBCS FREng is a British computer scientist.Woodcock gained his PhD from the University of Liverpool. Until 2001 he was Professor of Software Engineering at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, where he was also a Fellow of Kellogg College...
(Kellogg)
Engineering and agriculture
- Roger AinsworthRoger AinsworthRoger Ainsworth is Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford and Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, England....
(Jesus and St Catherine's) - William FroudeWilliam FroudeWilliam Froude was an English engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect. He was the first to formulate reliable laws for the resistance that water offers to ships and for predicting their stability....
(Oriel) - E. Peter RaynesE. Peter RaynesEdward Peter Raynes MA , C. Phys, FInstP, FRS is Professor of Optoelectronic Engineering at the University of Oxford . He was, and continues to be, an early developer and advocate of liquid crystal displays ....
(St Cross) - Jethro TullJethro Tull (agriculturist)Jethro Tull was an English agricultural pioneer who helped bring about the British Agricultural Revolution. He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1701 that economically sowed the seeds in neat rows, and later a horse-drawn hoe...
(St John's) - Kevin WarwickKevin WarwickKevin Warwick is a British scientist and professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom...
(Somerville) - Martin WoodMartin Wood (engineer)Sir Martin Francis Wood, CBE, FRS was co-founder of Oxford Instruments, one of the first spin-out companies from the University of Oxford and still one of the most successful....
(Christ Church)
Geology
- William Joscelyn ArkellWilliam Joscelyn ArkellWilliam Joscelyn Arkell M.A.; D.Phil.; D.Sc.; FGS.; FRS. was a British geologist and paleontologist, regarded as the leading authority on the Jurassic Period during the middle part of the 20th century.-Childhood:...
(New College) - Donald Ferlys Wilson Baden-PowellDonald Ferlys Wilson Baden-PowellDonald Ferlys Wilson Baden-Powell , son of Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell, was a geologist who taught geology and palaeolithic archaeology at the University of Oxford....
(Oriel) - Malcolm BrownGeorge Malcolm BrownSir George Malcolm Brown, FRS was one of the most respected geologists of the second half of the Twentieth century...
(St Cross) - Colin CampbellColin Campbell (geologist)Colin J. Campbell, PhD Oxford, is a retired British petroleum geologist who predicted that oil production would peak by 2007. The consequences of this are uncertain but drastic, due to the world's dependency on fossil fuels for the vast majority of its energy...
(Wadham) - Keith CoxKeith CoxKeith Gordon Cox FRS was a British geologist and academic at the University of Oxford. He had a particular interest in flood basalts and was regarded as one of the leading experts in this area.-Life and career:...
(The Queen's and Jesus) - Charles LyellCharles LyellSir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism – the idea that the earth was shaped by slow-moving forces still in operation...
(Exeter) - Hugh Edwin StricklandHugh Edwin StricklandHugh Edwin Strickland , was an English geologist, ornithologist,naturalist, and systematist.Strickland was born at Reighton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. He was the second son of Henry Eustatius Strickland of Apperley, Gloucestershire, by his wife Mary, daughter of Edmund Cartwright, D.D. [q...
(Oriel) - Lawrence WagerLawrence WagerLawrence Rickard Wager, commonly known as Bill Wager, was a British geologist, explorer and mountaineer, described as "one of the finest geological thinkers of his generation" and best remembered for his work on the Skaergaard intrusion in Greenland, and for his attempt on Mount Everest in...
- U. AswathanarayanaU. AswathanarayanaUppugunduri Aswathanarayana is the Honorary Director of the Mahadevan International Centre for Water Resources Management, India. He is counted among the doyens of geology in independent India and is revered as a leading scientist from Andhra Pradesh...