FAMOUS OXFORDIANS
Gifted men and women have studied or taught at the University throughout its history. Among them are 28 British Prime Ministers, at least 30 international leaders, 55 Nobel Prize winners, and 120 Olympic medal winners.
20th and 21st Centuries
Tony Abbott, former Prime Minister of Australia
HM King Abdullah II of Jordan
Sir Grantley Adams, former Premier of Barbados and Prime Minister of the West Indies
J M G (Tom) Adams, former Prime Minister of Barbados
Sir Roger Bannister, neurologist and athlete
Dame Josephine Barnes, first female President of the British Medical Association
Sir Isaiah Berlin, philosopher
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, former President and Prime Minister of Pakistan
Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister
Baruch S Blumberg, Nobel Prize-winning scientist
Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Bill Clinton, former President of the United States
Sir John Eccles, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology
T S Eliot, poet
William Fulbright, politician, founder of the Fulbright Scholarships
Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India
William Golding, Nobel Prize-winning novelist
Hugh Grant, actor
Graham Greene, author
Harald V, King of Norway
Professor Stephen Hawking, physicist
Dorothy Hodgkin, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
Edwin Hubble, astronomer
Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, current British Prime Minister
Felicity Jones, actor
T E Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia
C S Lewis, writer and scholar
Rt Hon Theresa May MP, former British Prime Minister
Philip Pullman, author
J R R Tolkien, author and academic
David Vitter, United States Senator
19th Century
Sir Richard Burton, explorer
Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), author and academic
William Ewart Gladstone, British Prime Minister
John Keble, theologian
William Morris, artist
Cardinal John Henry Newman, theologian
Edward Pusey, theologian
Cecil Rhodes, colonial pioneer, founder of the Rhodes Scholarships
Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet
Oscar Wilde, playwright, poet and author
17th and 18th Centuries
Edmund Halley, astronomer
William Harvey, scientist discovered the circulation of blood
Thomas Hobbes, philosopher
Dr Samuel Johnson, lexicographer
John Locke, philosopher
Sir Richard Lovelace, poet
James Oglethorpe, founder of the US state of Georgia
William Penn, founder of the US state of Pennsylvania
Adam Smith, political economist
James Smithson, scientist, founder of the Smithsonian Institution
Jonathan Swift, author and satirist
Jethro Tull, agriculturalist and inventor
John Wesley, founder of Methodism
Sir Christopher Wren, architect
15th and 16th Centuries
Cardinal William Allen
Erasmus, scholar
Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor and martyr
Sir Walter Raleigh, explorer
Sir Philip Sidney, poet
William Tyndale, translator of the Bible
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Lord Chancellor and churchman, founder of Christ Church