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This page serves as a central navigational point for lists of more than 2,350 '''members of the [[University of Oxford]]''', divided into relevant groupings for ease of use. The vast majority were students at the university, although they did not necessarily take a [[academic degree|degree]]; others have held [[Oxbridge Fellowship|fellowships]] at one of the university's [[Colleges of the University of Oxford|colleges]]; many fall into both categories. This page does not include people whose only connection with the university consists of the award of an honorary degree or an [[Oxbridge Fellowship|honorary fellowship]].

The list has been divided into categories indicating the field of activity in which people have become well known. Many of the university's '''alumni/ae''', or '''old members''', as they are more traditionally known, have attained a level of distinction in more than one field. These appear only in the category with which it is felt they are most often associated, or in which they have been more recently involved. Hence [[Jeffrey Archer]] ([[Brasenose College, Oxford|Brasenose]]), a novelist, is listed as a [[life peer]]; [[Imran Khan]] ([[Keble College, Oxford|Keble]]), a former [[Imran Khan#Captain - Pakistan Cricket Team|captain]] of the [[Pakistani cricket team]], is listed as a [[Politics of Pakistan|Pakistani politician]]. Some academic disciplines are more difficult to define than others. In particular, many [[Theology|theologians]], lawyers, and [[Sociology|sociologists]] work in areas that might be thought to be encompassed by philosophy.

'''Oxonians''' (a term for members, students or alumni of the university derived from its Latin name, ''Academia Oxoniensis'') have included two [[British monarchy|British kings]] and at least fifteen monarchs of eleven other [[Sovereignty|sovereign states]] (including five reigning monarchs), twenty-eight [[List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom by education|British prime ministers]], and thirty-five [[Head of government|presidents and prime ministers]] of nineteen other countries. {{As of|2019|7}} there are seven Oxonians in the [[Cabinet of the United Kingdom]] and two in the [[Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (United Kingdom)|Shadow Cabinet]]. The university lays claim to thirteen [[saint]]s, ten [[Beatification|blesseds]], an [[antipope]], nineteen [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinals]], and eighty-nine [[archbishop]]s (including thirty-two of [[Archbishop of Canterbury|Canterbury]] and twenty-two of [[Archbishop of York|York]]). The university claims forty-seven [[List of Nobel laureates|Nobel Laureates]] and three [[Fields Medal]]lists. The university's oldest student was [[Gertrud Seidmann]], who was awarded a Certificate of Graduate Attainment aged 91.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gertrud Seidmann awarded a Certificate of Graduate Attainment |url=http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/reader/items/87.html |website=School of Archaeology |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=15 July 2018 |date=28 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715235942/http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/reader/items/87.html |archive-date=15 July 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

This list also includes twenty-five [[Prince|princes and princesses]] (among them the [[Heir apparent|heirs apparent]] of [[Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant|Belgium]] and [[Al-Muhtadee Billah|Brunei]]), thirty-four [[List of Dukedoms in the Peerages of the British Isles|dukes]], nineteen [[List of Marquessates in the Peerages of the British Isles|marquesses]], eighty-two [[List of Earldoms|earls and countesses]], forty-six [[List of Viscountcies in the Peerages of the British Isles|viscounts and viscountesses]], and 188 [[List of Baronies in the Peerages of the British Isles|barons and baronesses]]; 246 bishops ([[Anglicanism|Anglican]] and Catholic); 291 [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Members of Parliament]] (excluding MPs who were subsequently peers), eleven [[Member of the European Parliament|Members of the European Parliament]] (excluding MEPs also serving at Westminster), twelve [[Lord Chancellor]]s, nine [[Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales|Lord Chief Justices]] and twenty-two [[Lord of Appeal in Ordinary|law lords]]; ten [[United States Senate|US Senators]], ten [[United States House of Representatives|US Representatives]] (including a [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]]), three [[Governor#United States|state governors]], and four [[Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States|associate justices]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States|US Supreme Court]]; as well as six [[Puisne Justice|puisne justices]] of the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] and a chief justice of the now defunct [[Federal Court of Canada]].

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==Government==

===Monarchs===

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===Royalty===

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===Heads of state and heads of government===

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===His Majesty's Government===

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===House of Lords and House of Commons===

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===Members of the European Parliament===

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===British military, security, and police personnel===

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===Foreign politicians, civil servants, diplomats, and military personnel===

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===Non-government people in British public life===

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==Law==

===Lord Chancellors and Lord Chief Justices===

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===Other judges and lawyers: United Kingdom===

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===Judges and lawyers: other countries===

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===Legal academics===
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==Religions==

===Christianity===

'''Saints'''

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'''Blessed'''

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'''Pope'''

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'''Cardinals'''

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'''Archbishops of Canterbury'''

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'''Archbishops of York'''

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'''Other Archbishops, Presiding Bishops, and Metropolitans'''

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'''Other Bishops'''

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'''Clergy and other ministers'''

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'''Theologians'''

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===Islam===

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===Judaism===

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=== Sikhism ===
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===Bahá'í===

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===Buddhism===

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===Study of Religions===

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==Literature==

===Poets===
'''Poets Laureate'''
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*[[Samuel Daniel]] (Magdalen Hall) Poet Laureate 1599–1619
*[[William Davenant]] (Lincoln) Poet Laureate 1637–1668
*[[Thomas Warton]] (Trinity) Poet Laureate 1785–90
*[[Henry James Pye]] (Magdalen Hall) Poet Laureate 1790–1813
*[[Robert Southey]] (Balliol) Poet Laureate 1813–43
*[[Robert Bridges]] (Corpus Christi) Poet Laureate 1913–30
*[[Cecil Day-Lewis]] (Wadham) Poet Laureate 1967–72
*[[John Betjeman]] (Magdalen) Poet Laureate 1972–84
*[[Andrew Motion]] (University) Poet Laureate 1999–
*[[William Morris]] (Exeter) declined Laureateship 1896
*[[Philip Larkin]] (St John's and All Souls) declined Laureateship 1984}}

==== Other Poets ====
{{Columns-list|*[[John Abbot (poet)|John Abbot]] (Balliol)
*[[Janet Adam Smith]] (Somerville)
*[[Drummond Allison]] (The Queen's)
*[[Edwin Arnold]] (University)
*[[Matthew Arnold]] (Balliol)
*[[W. H. Auden]] (Christ Church and Exeter)
*[[Owen Barfield]] (Wadham)
*[[Reem Bassiouney]] (Somerville)
*[[Katharine Lee Bates]]
*[[Thomas Lovell Beddoes]] (Pembroke)
*[[Audrey Beecham]] (Somerville)
*[[Henry Charles Beeching]] (Balliol)
*[[Hilaire Belloc]] (Balliol)
*[[Laurence Binyon]] (Trinity)
*[[John Francis Bloxam]] (Exeter)
*[[Edmund Blunden]] (The Queen's)
*[[Edwin Emmanuel Bradford]] (Exeter)
*[[Thomas Edward Brown]] (Christ Church and Oriel)
*[[Alan Brownjohn]] (Merton)
*[[Charles Stuart Calverley]] (Balliol)
*[[Vahni Capildeo]] (Christ Church)
*[[Thomas Carew]] (Merton)
*[[Sydney Carter]] (Balliol)
*[[Upile Chisala]]
*[[Arthur Hugh Clough]] (Balliol)
*[[Robert P. T. Coffin]]
*[[Wendy Cope]] (St Hilda's)
*[[S. E. Cottam|Samuel Elsworth Cottam]] (Exeter)
*[[Kevin Crossley-Holland]] (St Edmund Hall)
*[[John Davies (poet, born 1569)|John Davies]] (The Queen's)
*[[Vinicius de Moraes|Vinícius de Moraes (Marcus Vinicius da Cruz de Mello Moraes)]]
*[[John Donne]] (Hertford) Member of Parliament 1601 and 1614, Dean of St Paul's 1621–31
*[[Alfred Douglas|Lord Alfred Douglas]] (Magdalen)
*[[Ernest Dowson]] (The Queen's)
*[[Edward Dyer]] (Balliol or Broadgates Hall)
*[[T. S. Eliot]] (Merton)
*[[U. A. Fanthorpe]] (St Anne's)
*[[John Fuller (poet)|John Fuller]] (New College and Magdalen)
*[[Viola Garvin]] (Somerville)
*[[Sydney Goodsir Smith]] (Oriel)
*[[Richard Graves]] (Pembroke)
*[[Robert Graves]] (St John's)
*[[Julian Grenfell]] (Balliol)
*[[Jane Griffiths (poet)|Jane Griffiths]]
*[[Stephen Hawes]]
*[[Robert Stephen Hawker]] (Pembroke)
*[[Seamus Heaney]] (Magdalen)
*[[John Heath-Stubbs]] (The Queen's)
*[[Geoffrey Hill]] (Keble)
*[[Gerard Manley Hopkins]] (Balliol)
*[[A. E. Housman]] (St John's)
*[[Elizabeth Jennings (poet)|Elizabeth Jennings]] (St Anne's)
*[[Jenny Joseph]] (St Hilda's)
*[[Sidney Keyes]]
*[[Nicole Krauss]]
*[[Walter Savage Landor]] (Trinity)
*[[Eugene Lee-Hamilton]] (Oriel)
*[[Richard Lovelace (poet)|Richard Lovelace]] (Gloucester Hall)
*[[George MacBeth]] (New College)
*[[Louis MacNeice]] (Merton)
*[[Glyn Maxwell]] (Worcester)
*[[Elma Mitchell]] (Somerville)
*[[Dom Moraes]] (Jesus)
*[[Arthur Nortje]]
*[[Tom Paulin]] (Hertford and Lincoln)
*[[F. T. Prince]] (Balliol)
*[[Craig Raine]] (Exeter and New College)
*[[John Crowe Ransom]] (Christ Church)
*[[Nesca Robb]] (Somerville)
*[[Alan Ross]] (St John's)
*[[F. R. Scott]]
*[[E. J. Scovell]] (Somerville)
*[[Patrick Shaw-Stewart]] (Balliol)
*[[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] (University)
*[[Philip Sidney]] (Christ Church)
*[[Charles Sorley]] (University)
*[[Bernard Spencer]] (Corpus Christi)
*[[Stephen Spender]] (University)
*[[Pauline Stainer]] (St Anne's)
*[[Jon Stallworthy]] (Magdalen and Wolfson)
*[[Eric Stenbock]] (Balliol)
*[[Algernon Charles Swinburne]] (Balliol)
*[[Michael Symmons Roberts]] (Regent's Park)
*[[John Addington Symonds]] (Balliol and Magdalen)
*[[Kim Taplin]] (Somerville)
*[[Edward Thomas (poet)|Edward Thomas]] (Lincoln)
*[[Michael Thwaites]]
*[[Thomas Traherne]] (Brasenose)
*[[Julian Turner]] (New College)
*[[Henry Vaughan]] (Jesus)
*[[Helen Waddell]] (Somerville)
*[[John Wain]] (St John's)
*[[Robert Penn Warren]] (New College)
*[[Samuel Wesley (poet, died 1735)|Samuel Wesley]] (Exeter)
*[[Henry Willobie]] (St John's and/or Exeter)
*[[John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester]] (Wadham)
*[[Fabian S. Woodley|Fabian Strachan Woodley]] (University)
*[[David Wright (poet)|David Wright]] (Oriel)
*[[Kit Wright]]
*[[Thomas Yalden]] (Magdalen)
*[[Natan Yonatan]]
*[[Edward Young]] (New College, Corpus Christi, and All Souls)}}

===Novelists and story writers===
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*[[Diran Adebayo]]
*[[Naomi Alderman]] (Lincoln)
*[[Monica Ali]] (Wadham)
*[[Kingsley Amis]] (St John's)
*[[Martin Amis]] (Exeter)
*[[Louise Mensch|Louise Bagshawe]] (Christ Church)
*[[Katharine Lee Bates]]
*[[Daniel Blythe]] (St John's)
*[[Marjorie Boulton]] (Somerville)
*[[William Boyd (writer)|William Boyd]] (Jesus)
*[[Vera Brittain]] (Somerville)
*[[Christine Brooke-Rose]] (Somerville)
*[[John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir]] (Balliol) MP 1927–35, Governor General of Canada 1935–1940
*[[A. S. Byatt]] (Somerville)
*[[Mike Carey (British writer)|Mike Carey]]
*[[Hugo Charteris]]
*[[Amit Chaudhuri]] (Balliol)
*[[Susanna Clarke]] (St Hilda's)
*[[Edmund Crispin|Edmund Crispin (Bruce Montgomery)]] (St John's) also a noteworthy composer
*[[Guy Davenport]] (Merton)
*[[Robertson Davies]] (Balliol)
*[[Lindsey Davis]] (Lady Margaret Hall)
*[[Helen DeWitt]] (Lady Margaret Hall and Brasenose)
*[[Siobhan Dowd]] (Lady Margaret Hall)
*[[J. Meade Falkner|John Meade Falkner]] (Hertford)
*[[Gertrude Minnie Faulding]] (Somerville)
*[[Helen Fielding]] (St Anne's)
*[[Penelope Fitzgerald]] (Somerville)
*[[Richard Flanagan]]
*[[Margaret Forster]] (Somerville)
*[[Celia Fremlin]] (Somerville)
*[[John Galsworthy]] (New College)
*[[Maggie Gee (novelist)|Maggie Gee]] (Somerville)
*[[Amitav Ghosh]] (Balliol)
*[[Victoria Glendinning]] (Somerville)
*[[William Golding]] (Brasenose)
*[[Graham Greene]] (Balliol)
*[[Mark Haddon]] (Merton)
*[[Catherine Heath]] (St Hilda's)
*[[Joseph Heller]] (St Catherine's)
*[[Zoë Heller]] (St Anne's)
*[[Robert Henriques]] (New College)
*[[Peter Hobbs (novelist)|Peter Hobbs]] (New College)
*[[Jane Aiken Hodge]] (Somerville)
*[[Alan Hollinghurst]] (Magdalen)
*[[Winifred Holtby]] (Somerville)
*[[Thomas Hughes]] (Oriel)
*[[Aldous Huxley]] (Balliol)
*[[Muriel Jaeger]] (Somerville)
*[[Joanna Kavenna]] (Linacre and St Antony's)
*[[Rachel Kelly]]
*[[Hari Kunzru]] (Wadham)
*[[Perceval Landon]] (Hertford)
*[[Marghanita Laski]] (Somerville)
*[[John le Carré]] (Lincoln)
*[[Harper Lee]]
*[[Margaret Leigh]] (Somerville)
*[[Peter Levi]] (Campion Hall)
*[[Matthew Gregory Lewis]] (Christ Church)
*[[Toby Litt]] (Worcester)
*[[Rose Macaulay]] (Somerville)
*[[Grace McCleen]]
*[[Val McDermid]] (St Hilda's)
*[[Charlotte Mendelson]]
*[[Naomi Mitchison]] (St Anne's)
*[[Iris Murdoch]] (Somerville and St Anne's)
*[[Gregory Norminton]] (Regent's Park)
*[[V. S. Naipaul]] (University)
*[[Kathleen Nott]] (Somerville)
*[[Christine Orr]] (Somerville)
*[[Iain Pears]] (Wadham)
*[[Philip Pullman]] (Exeter)
*[[Barbara Pym]] (St Hilda's)
*[[Hilda Stewart Reid]] (Somerville)
*[[Mary Renault]] (St Hugh's)
*[[Michèle Roberts]] (Somerville)
*[[Abu Rushd|Abu Rushd Matinuddin]]
*[[Edward St Aubyn]] (Keble)
*[[Dorothy L. Sayers]] (Somerville)
*[[Will Self]] (Exeter)
*[[Vikram Seth]] (Corpus Christi)
*[[Neil Spring]] (Somerville)
*[[Hilary Spurling]] (Somerville)
*[[J. I. M. Stewart|Michael Innes]] (Oriel and Christ Church)
*[[Anna Stothard]] (Lincoln)
*[[Plum Sykes]] (Worcester)
*[[Sylvia Thompson]] (Somerville)
*[[Rachel Trickett]] (St Hugh's and Lady Margaret Hall)
*[[Joanna Trollope]] (St Hugh's)
*[[Philip Turner (writer)|Philip Turner]] (Worcester)
*[[Lucy Wadham]] (Magdalen)
*[[Doreen Wallace]] (Somerville)
*[[Jill Paton Walsh]] (St Anne's)
*[[Rex Warner]] (Wadham)
*[[Auberon Waugh]] (Christ Church)
*[[Evelyn Waugh]] (Hertford)
*[[Angus Wilson]] (Merton)
*[[Laura Wilson (writer)|Laura Wilson]] (Somerville)
*[[Jeanette Winterson]] (St Catherine's)
*[[P. C. Wren]] (St Catherine's)
*[[Elizabeth Young, Baroness Kennet]] (Somerville)
*[[Tope Folarin]] (Harris Manchester)
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===Dramatists===
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*[[Achmed Abdullah|Achmed Abdullah (Alexandr Nicholaievich Romanov)]]
*[[Francis Beaumont]] (Broadgates Hall)
*[[Alan Bennett]] (Exeter)
*[[Thomas Chaundler]]
*[[Caryl Churchill]] (Lady Margaret Hall)
*[[Richard Curtis]] (Christ Church)
*[[Russell T Davies]] (Worcester)
*[[William Douglas-Home]] (New College)
*[[Samuel Foote]] (Worcester)
*[[John Ford (dramatist)|John Ford]] (Exeter)
*[[Christopher Hampton]] (New College)
*[[Richard Hughes (writer)|Richard Hughes]] (Oriel)
*[[Marcy Kahan]] (Somerville)
*[[Girish Karnad]] (Lincoln and Magdalen)
*[[Margaret Kennedy]] (Somerville)
*[[Thomas Lodge]] (Trinity)
*[[Christine Longford, Countess of Longford]] (Somerville)
*[[Patrick Marber]] (Wadham)
*[[Christabel Marshall]] (Somerville)
*[[John Marston (playwright)|John Marston]] (Brasenose)
*[[Herman Charles Merivale]] (Balliol)
*[[Thomas Middleton]] (The Queen's)
*[[Peter Morris (playwright)|Peter Morris]] (Somerville)
*[[John Mortimer]] (Brasenose)
*[[Thomas Nabbes]] (Exeter)
*[[Thomas Otway]] (Christ Church)
*[[George Peele]] (Broadgates Hall and Christ Church)
*[[Dennis Potter]] (New College)
*[[Terence Rattigan]] (Trinity)
*[[James Roose-Evans]]
*[[Baņuta Rubess]]
*[[Charles Sedley]] (Wadham)
*[[R. C. Sherriff]] (New College)
*[[James Shirley]] (St John's)
*[[James Townley]] (St John's)
*[[Nicholas Udall]] (Corpus Christi)
*[[Oscar Wilde]] (Magdalen)
*[[Peter Wildeblood]] (Trinity)
*[[Emlyn Williams]] (Christ Church)
*[[William Wycherley]] (The Queen's)
*[[Elizabeth Young, Lady Kennet]] (Somerville)
}}

===Children's writers===
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*[[Richard Adams]] (Worcester) author of ''Watership Down''
*[[Giles Andreae]] creator of Purple Ronnie and Edward Monkton
*[[W.V. Awdry|W. V. Awdrey]] (St Peter's and Wycliffe Hall) creator of Thomas the Tank Engine
*[[T. A. Barron]]
*[[Nina Bawden]] (Somerville)
*[[Lesley M. M. Blume]]
*[[Lucy M. Boston]] (Somerville)
*[[Lewis Carroll]] (Christ Church)
*[[Pauline Clarke]] (Somerville)
*[[Olivia Coolidge]] (Somerville)
*[[Susan Cooper]] (Somerville)
*[[Cressida Cowell]] (Keble)
*[[Gillian Cross]] (Somerville)
*[[Thomas Day (writer)|Thomas Day]] (Corpus Christi)
*[[Ruby Ferguson]] (St Hilda's)
*[[Dr. Seuss|Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr Seuss)]] (Lincoln)
*[[Frances Hardinge]] (Somerville)
*[[Roger Lancelyn Green]] (Merton) also a biographer and librarian
*[[Penelope Lively]] (St Anne's)
*[[Lady Flora McDonnell]] (Exeter)
*[[Michelle Paver]] (Lady Margaret Hall)
*[[Michael Rosen (author)|Michael Rosen]] (Wadham)
*[[Constance Savery]] (Somerville)
*[[Ann Schlee]] (Somerville)
*[[Matthew Skelton]] (Somerville)
*[[Francesca Simon]] creator of Horrid Henry
*[[Frederic Weatherly]] (Brasenose) also King's Counsel, poet, sci-fi and fantasy writer
*[[Diana Wynne Jones]] (St Anne's)
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===Scholars, critics, diarists, publishers, librarians===
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*[[Joseph Addison]] (The Queen's and Magdalen)
*[[Jean Aitchison]] (Worcester)
*[[Peter Bayley (literary critic)|Peter Bayley]] (University)
*[[John Bayley (writer)|John Bayley]] (St Catherine's)
*[[Max Beerbohm]] (Merton)
*[[Stephen Bernard]] (Christ Church, Brasenose, and Univ)
*[[Homi K. Bhabha]]
*[[James H. Billington]] (Balliol)
*[[Andrew Cecil Bradley]] (Balliol)
*[[Melvyn Bragg]] (Wadham)
*[[Jay Taverner|Jacky Bratton]] (St Anne's)
*[[Katharine Mary Briggs]] (Lady Margaret Hall)
*[[Vera Brittain]] (Somerville)
*[[Cleanth Brooks]] (Exeter)
*[[Robert Burchfield]] (Magdalen and Christ Church)
*[[Raymond Carr|Sir Raymond Carr]] (Christ Church, New College, All Souls and St Antony's)
*[[Alasdair Clayre]] (All Souls)
*[[Peter Conrad (academic)|Peter Conrad]] (Christ Church and All Souls)
*[[Janet E. Courtney]] (Lady Margaret Hall)
*[[Jonathan Culler]]
*[[Christopher de Hamel]] 
*[[Thomas de Quincey]] (Brasenose)
*[[Susie Dent]]
*[[Terry Eagleton]] (Wadham, Linacre, and St Catherine's)
*[[Richard Ellmann]] (New College)
*[[Paul Engle]]
*[[Geoffrey Faber]] (Christ Church)
*[[James Fenton]] (Magdalen)
*[[Henry Watson Fowler]] (Balliol)
*[[Adam Fox (poet)|Adam Fox]] (Magdalen)
*[[Leela Gandhi]]
*[[William Gifford]] (Exeter)
*[[Victor Gollancz]] (New College)
*[[George Stuart Gordon]] (Oriel and Magdalen)
*[[John Haffenden]] (St John's and Magdalen)
*[[Ian Hamilton (critic)|Ian Hamilton]] (Keble)
*[[Richard Hakluyt]] (Christ Church)
*[[Hugh Haughton]]
*[[George Birkbeck Norman Hill]] (Pembroke)
*[[Christopher Hitchens]] (Balliol)
*[[Thomas James]] (New College)
*[[Samuel Johnson]] (Pembroke)
*[[Antony Kamm]] (Worcester)
*[[Andrew Lang]] (Balliol)
*[[Gerard Langbaine]] (University)
*[[Philip Larkin#Life|Monica Jones]] (St Hugh's)
*[[John Lahr]] (Worcester)
*[[Andrew George Lehmann]]
*[[C.S. Lewis]] (University and Magdalen)
*[[Alain LeRoy Locke]] (Hertford)
*[[Edward Lucie-Smith]] (Merton)
*[[Fiona MacCarthy]]
*[[Peter McDonald (critic)|Peter McDonald]] (University and Christ Church)
*[[Robert Macfarlane (travel writer)|Robert Macfarlane]] (Magdalen)
*[[Norris McWhirter]] (Trinity) co-founder, ''Guinness Book of Records'' (1955)
*[[Ross McWhirter]] (Trinity) co-founder, ''Guinness Book of Records'' (1955)
*Chris Maslanka (St Catherine's)
*[[Ved Mehta]] (Balliol)
*[[Kate Millett]] (St Hilda's) author of ''Sexual Politics'' (1970), founder of Women's Art Colony Farm (1971)
*[[Peter Milward]] (Campion Hall) Emeritus Professor of English Literature Sophia University
*[[Toril Moi]] (Lady Margaret Hall and Pembroke)
*[[Jan Morris]] (St Edmund Hall and Christ Church)
*[[Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris]] (Worcester)
*[[Raymond Mortimer]] (Balliol)
*[[Douglas Murray (author)|Douglas Murray]] (Magdalen)
*[[Beverley Nichols]] (Balliol)
*[[Harold Nicolson]] (Balliol)
*[[David Norbrook]] (Balliol, Magdalen, and Merton)
*[[Michael O'Neill (academic)|Michael O'Neill]] (Exeter)
*[[Francis Turner Palgrave]] (Balliol and Exeter)
*[[Walter Pater]] (The Queen's)
*[[William Paton Ker]] (Balliol and All Souls)
*[[Reynolds Price]] (Merton)
*[[Arthur Quiller-Couch]] (Trinity)
*[[Walter Raleigh (professor)|Walter Alexander Raleigh]] (Merton)
*[[Nick Rees-Roberts]] (Keble)
*[[C. Allen Thorndike Rice]] publisher of the ''[[North American Review]]''
*[[Christopher Ricks]] (Balliol and Worcester)
*[[Neil Leon Rudenstine]] (New College) President of Harvard University 1991–2001
*[[John Campbell Shairp]] (Balliol)
*[[Susan Sontag]] (St Anne's)
*[[Richard Steele]] (Merton)
*[[Percy Stephensen]] (The Queen's)
*[[J. I. M. Stewart]] (Oriel and Christ Church)
*[[Jonathan Swift]] (Hertford)
*[[Ann Thwaite]] (St Hilda's)
*[[J. R. R. Tolkien]] (Exeter and Pembroke)
*[[Jenny Uglow]] (St Anne's)
*[[Guðbrandur Vigfússon]]
*[[Elizabeth Wade White]]
*[[Fredric Warburg]] (Christ Church)
*[[Marina Warner]] (Lady Margaret Hall)
*[[Joseph Warton]] (Oriel)
*[[Raymond Williams]]
*[[Simon Winchester]] (St Catherine's)
*[[George Woodcock]]
*[[Ghil'ad Zuckermann]] (St Hugh's)
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===Travel and non-fiction writers===
* [[Katharine Lee Bates]]

==Media==

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

===Print===

====Editors====
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*[[Paul Anderson (journalist)|Paul Anderson]] (Balliol) ''Tribune'' 1991–93, Deputy'' New Statesman'' 1993–96
*[[Perry Anderson]] (Worcester) ''New Left Review'' 1962–82 & 2000–03
*[[Lionel Barber]] (St. Edmund) ''The Financial Times'' 2005–
*[[Paul Barker (writer)|Paul Barker]] (Brasenose) ''New Society'' 1968–86
*[[Peter Beinart]] (University) ''The New Republic'' 1999–2006, Editor-at-large 2006–
*[[Tina Brown]] (St Anne's) ''Tatler'' 1979–83, ''Vanity Fair'' 1984–92, ''The New Yorker'' 1992–98
*[[George Earle Buckle]] (New College and All Souls) ''The Times'' 1884–1912
*[[Alastair Burnet]] (Worcester) ''The Economist'' 1965–74, ''The Daily Express'' 1974–76
*[[Charles C. W. Cooke]] (LMH) ''National Review Online'' 2016–
*[[William Percival Crozier]] (Trinity) ''The Manchester Guardian'' 1932–44
*[[Matthew d'Ancona]] (Magdalen and All Souls) ''The Spectator'' 2006–
*[[Geoffrey Dawson]] (Magdalen and All Souls) ''The Times'' 1912–19 & 1923–41
*[[John Thadeus Delane]] (Magdalen Hall) ''The Times'' 1841–77
*[[Bill Emmott]] (Magdalen) ''The Economist'' 1993–2006
*[[James Fallows]] (The Queen's) ''U.S. News & World Report'' 1996–98
*[[Kim Fletcher]] (Hertford) ''The Independent on Sunday'' 1998–99, Ed Dir Telegraph New Media 2000–03, Ed Dir Telegraph Group 2003–05
*[[Paul Foot (journalist)|Paul Foot]] (University) ''Socialist Worker'' 1972–78
*[[John Gross]] (Wadham) ''Times Literary Supplement'' 1974–81, ''New York Times Book Review'' (Dep. Editor) 1985–1989
*[[John Lawrence Hammond]] (St John's) ''The Speaker'' 1899–1906
*[[Max Hastings]] ''The Daily Telegraph'' 1986–95, ''The Evening Standard'' 1996–2001
*[[Alastair Hetherington]] (Corpus Christi) ''The Guardian'' 1956–75
*[[Ian Hislop]] (Magdalen) ''Private Eye'' 1986–
*[[Anthony Howard (journalist)|Anthony Howard]] (Christ Church) ''New Statesman'' 1972–78, Deputy ''The Observer'' 1981–88
*[[Brian Inglis]] (Magdalen) ''The Spectator'' 1959–62
*[[Richard Ingrams]] (University) co-founder ''Private Eye'' 1961, Editor 1963–86, founder ''The Oldie'' 1992
*[[Aboubakr Jamaï]] (University) co-founder ''Le Journal Hebdomadaire'' 1997, co-founder ''Assahifa al-Ousbouiya'' 1998
*[[Simon Jenkins]] (St John's) ''Evening Standard'' 1976–78, ''The Times'' 1990–92
*[[Paul Johnson (writer)|Paul Johnson]] (Magdalen) ''New Statesman'' 1965–70
*[[Mehreen Khan]]  ''Financial Times'' 2016–22, ''The Times'' 2022–
*[[Michael Kinsley]] (Magdalen) ''The New Republic'' 1979–81 & 1985–89, ''Slate'' 1996–2002, sometime of ''Harper's Magazine''
*[[Andrew Knight (journalist)|Andrew Knight]] (Balliol) ''The Economist'' 1974–86
*[[Richard Lambert]] (Balliol) ''Financial Times'' 1991–2001, Director General Confederation of British Industry 2006–
*[[Dominic Lawson]] (Christ Church) ''The Spectator'' 1990–95, ''The Sunday Telegraph'' 1995–2005
*[[John Micklethwait]] (Magdalen) ''The Economist'' 2006–
*[[Ferdinand Mount]] (Christ Church) ''Times Literary Supplement'' 1991–2003
*[[Rowan Pelling]] (St Hugh's) ''Erotic Review'' 1997–
*[[Peter Preston]] (St John's) ''The Guardian'' 1975–95
*[[William Rees-Mogg]] (Balliol) ''The Times'' 1967–81, Chairman Arts Council 1982–89
*[[C. P. Scott]] (Corpus Christi) ''The Manchester Guardian'' 1872–1929
*[[Edward Taylor Scott]] ''The Manchester Guardian'' 1929–32
*[[Paul Spike]] (St Catherine's) ''Punch'' 1997
*[[Richard Stengel]] (Christ Church) Managing Editor ''Time'' 2006–
*[[Peter Stothard]] (Trinity) ''The Times'' 1992–2002, ''Times Literary Supplement'' 2002–
*[[Andrew Sullivan]] (Magdalen) ''The New Republic'' 1991–96
*[[Hilary Wainwright]] ''Red Pepper''
*[[John Walter (second)|John Walter]] (Trinity) ''The Times'' 1803–09
*[[Norman Webster]] (St John's) sometime editor-in-chief ''The Globe and Mail'', ''Montreal Gazette''
*[[Jacob Weisberg]] (New College) sometime of ''Slate''
*[[Andreas Whittam Smith]] (Keble) ''The Independent'' 1986–93, President of the British Board of Film Classification 1997–2002, First Church Estates Commissioner 2002–
*[[Peregrine Worsthorne]] (Magdalen) ''The Sunday Telegraph'' 1986–89
}}

====Writers====
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*[[David Aaronovitch]] (Balliol)
*[[Tariq Ali]] (Exeter)
*[[Yasmin Alibhai-Brown]] (Linacre)
*[[Lynn Barber]]
*[[Katharine Lee Bates]]
*[[Nora Beloff]] (Lady Margaret Hall)
*[[Catherine Bennett (journalist)|Catherine Bennett]] (Hertford)
*[[Stephen Bernard]] (Christ Church, Brasenose College, University College)
*[[Adrian Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose]] (Christ Church)
*[[Michael Billington (critic)|Michael Billington]] (St Catherine's)<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bx6tpy | title= St Catherine's, Oxford v Peterhouse, Cambridge | work=BBC Online | access-date=18 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[Grace Blakeley]] (St Peter's and St Antony's)
*[[Anna Blundy]]
*[[Emma Brockes]] (St Edmund Hall)
*[[James Buchan]] (Magdalen)
*[[David Caute]] (Wadham, St Antony's, and All Souls) Literary Editor ''New Statesman'' 1979–80
*[[Hugh Chisholm]] (Christ Church) Editor of ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (11th & 12th edns)<!-- Not included under Editors, above, since he was not a newspaper Editor. -->
*[[Alexander Cockburn]] (Keble)
*[[Andrew Cockburn]] (Worcester)
*[[Claud Cockburn]]
*[[Patrick Cockburn]] (Trinity)
*[[Peter Conradi]] (Brasenose)
*[[Robert Crampton]]
*[[George Dangerfield]] (Hertford) Literary Editor ''Vanity Fair'' 1933–35
*[[Nick Denton]] (University)
*[[E. J. Dionne]]
*[[Cordelia Fine]]
*[[Jonathan Freedland]] (Wadham)
*[[Thomas Friedman]] – American journalist, author and a three-time winner of the [[Pulitzer Prize]]
*[[Barton Gellman]]
*[[Alan Gibson]] (Queen's)
*[[Maurizio Giuliano]] (University)
*[[Richard Gott]]
*[[Tom Gross]] (Wadham)
*[[John Harris (critic)|John Harris]] (The Queen's)
*[[Julia Hartley-Brewer]] (Magdalen)
*[[Mehdi Hasan]] (Christ Church)
*[[Christopher Hitchens]] (Balliol)
*[[Anthony Holden]]
*[[Austen Ivereigh]] (St Antony's) Director of Public Affairs Archbishop of Westminster 2004–06
*[[Rachel Johnson]] (New College)
*[[Owen Jones]] (University)<ref>{{cite web | url= https://cherwell.org/2014/01/06/interview-owen-jones/ | title= Interview: Owen Jones | work=Cherwell| first=Charlotte | last=Cooper-Beglin | date=6 January 2014 | access-date=6 May 2021}}</ref>
*[[Tobias Jones (writer)|Tobias Jones]] (Jesus)
*[[John F. Jungclaussen]] (St Cross College)
*[[Oliver Kamm]] (New College)
*[[John Keay]] (Magdalen)
*[[Robert Kee]] (Magdalen)
*[[Lucy Kellaway]] (Lady Margaret Hall)
*[[Ludovic Kennedy]] (Christ Church)
*[[Martin Kettle]] (Balliol)
*[[Miles Kington]] (Trinity)
*[[Charles Krauthammer]]
*[[Nicholas D. Kristof]] (Magdalen)
*[[Christina Lamb]] (University)
*[[Osbert Lancaster]] (Lincoln)
*[[Nathaniel Lande]] Creative Director of ''Time'', Director of Time World News Service & Time-Life
*[[Paul Levy (journalist)|Paul Levy]] (Nuffield)
*[[James McDonald (writer)|James McDonald]] (University)
*[[Derek Malcolm]] (Merton)<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900-1964|date=1964|publisher=Basil Blackwell|location=Oxford|page=416}}</ref>
*[[Peter Millar (journalist)|Peter Millar]] (Magdalen)
*[[Seumas Milne]] (Balliol)<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/james-ball-deconstructed-seaumas-milne-power-player-45338 | title= How Seumas Milne quietly became Labour's power player | work=The New European | date=3 May 2019 | access-date=8 May 2021}}</ref> 
*[[Baisali Mohanty]] (Wolfson)
*[[Sheridan Morley]] (Merton)
*[[Harry Mount]]
*[[Eustace Clare Grenville Murray]] (Hertford) diplomat 1851–68, founder Queen's Messenger 1869, co-founder World 1874
*[[James Owen (British author)|James Owen]] (University)
*[[Melanie Phillips]] (St Anne's)
*[[Adam Raphael]] (Oriel)
*[[Kate Rew]]
*[[W. Andrew Robinson]] (University) Literary Editor ''Times Higher Education Supplement''
*[[Miranda Sawyer]] (Pembroke)
*[[William Shawcross]] (University)
*[[Sonia Sodha]] (St Hilda's)
*[[Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer]] (Magdalen)
*[[Guy Spier]] (Brasenose)
*[[George Steer]] (Christ Church)
*[[Jonny Steinberg]]
*[[Heather Stewart]] (Magdalen)
*[[Frances Stonor Saunders]] (St Anne's)
*[[David Stubbs]]
*[[Matthew Sweet (writer)|Matthew Sweet]]
*[[Polly Toynbee]] (St Anne's)
*[[Kenneth Tynan]] (Magdalen)
*[[Sharon Waxman]] (St Antony's)
*[[Michael Wharton]] (Lincoln)<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/jan/25/pressandpublishing.obituaries | title=Michael Wharton | work=The Guardian |first=Philip | last=Purser | date=25 January 2006 | access-date=11 May 2021}}</ref>
*[[Geoffrey Wheatcroft]] (New College)<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v11/n23/anthony-howard/murder-in-the-cathedral | title= Murder in the Cathedral | work=[[London Review of Books]] | first=Anthony | last=Howard | date=7 December 1989 | access-date=18 August 2021}}</ref>
*[[Christine Whelan]] (Worcester) author of ''Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women''
*[[George Will]] (Magdalen)
*[[Tom Wintringham]] (Balliol) founder ''Daily Worker'' (1930) and ''Left Review'' (1934)
*[[John Woodcock (cricket writer)|John Woodcock]] (Trinity)
*[[Adrian Wooldridge]] (Balliol and All Souls)
*[[Hugo Young]] (Balliol)
*[[Toby Young]] (Brasenose)
}}

===Broadcast===
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*[[Samira Ahmed]] (St Edmund Hall)
*[[Jackie Ashley]] (St Anne's)
*[[Zeinab Badawi]] (St Hilda's)
*[[Paul Barry]]
*[[Frank Bough]] (Merton)<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26063499 | title= Obituary: Frank Bough | publisher=BBC News | date=25 October 2020 | access-date=2 May 2021}}</ref>
*[[Gyles Brandreth]] (New College)<ref name="oxford alumni">{{cite web |url=https://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/quad/quadcast/gyles-brandreth?page=7 |title=Gyles Brandreth (New College, 1967) |date=19 January 2017 |access-date=3 May 2021 |work=alumni.ox.ac.uk}}</ref>
*[[Ben Brown (journalist)|Ben Brown]] (Keble)
*[[Fiona Bruce]] (Hertford)
*[[Michael Brunson]] (The Queen's)
*[[Brenda Buttner]] (Balliol)
*[[Reeta Chakrabarti]] (Exeter)
*[[Jo Coburn]]<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/1JNWG8Pf7ymzsbZS7dY7MRx/jo-coburn | title= Jo Coburn | work=BBC Online | access-date=8 May 2021}}</ref>
*[[Charles Collingwood (journalist)|Charles Collingwood]]
*[[Alan Connor]] (Wadham)
*[[Giles Coren]] (Keble)
*[[Victoria Coren]] (St John's)
*[[Michael Crick]] (New College)<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/governance/structure/board-governors/members/michael-crick/ | title= Michael Crick, BA | work=University of Manchester | access-date=6 May 2021}}</ref>
*[[Adam Curtis]] (Mansfield)
*[[Evan Davis (journalist)|Evan Davis]] (St John's)
*[[Robin Day]] (St Edmund Hall)
*[[David Dimbleby]] (Christ Church)
*[[Stephanie Flanders]] (Balliol)
*[[Matt Frei]] (St Peter's)
*[[Delia Gallagher]] (Blackfriars)
*[[Paul Gambaccini]] (University)
*[[Arnab Goswami]] (St. Antony's College)
*[[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]] (Hertford)
*[[Lowri Gwilym]]
*[[Guto Harri]] (The Queen's)
*[[Russell Harty]] (Exeter)
*[[Chris J. Hollins|Chris Hollins]] (Keble)<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.talent4media.com/talent/chris-hollins/ | title= Chris Hollins | work=Talent4 Media| access-date=4 May 2021}}</ref>
*[[Gordon Honeycombe]] (University)
*[[Simon Jack]]
*[[Sarah Jarvis]]
*[[Sally Jones (journalist)|Sally Jones]] (St Hugh's)
*[[Natasha Kaplinsky]] (Hertford)
*[[Katty Kay]]
*[[Martha Kearney]] (St Anne's)
*[[Bridget Kendall]] (Lady Margaret Hall and St Antony's)
*[[Kenneth Kendall]]
*[[Victoria Lautman]] (Merton)
*[[Alvar Lidell]] (Exeter)
*[[Rachel Maddow]] (Lincoln)
*[[Magnus Magnusson]] (Jesus)<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/01_january/08/magnus.shtml | title= Tributes to Magnus Magnusson, KBE, 1929-2007 | work=BBC Online | date=8 January 2007 | access-date=3 May 2021}}</ref>
*[[Howard Marshall (broadcaster)|Howard Marshall]] (Oriel)
*[[Rex Murphy]]
*[[Cathy Newman]] (Lady Margaret Hall)<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/19/cathy-newman-the-internet-is-being-written-by-men-with-an-agenda | title= Cathy Newman: 'The internet is being written by men with an agenda' | work=The Guardian | first=Nosheen | last=Iqbal | date=19 March 2018 | access-date=6 May 2021}}</ref>
*[[Rageh Omaar]] (Exeter)
*[[Robert Orchard]]
*[[Robert Peston]] (Balliol)
*[[Libby Purves]] (St Anne's)
*[[Esther Rantzen]] (Somerville)
*[[Katie Razzall]] (Pembroke)<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/news/40-years-women-katie-razzall | title= 40 Years of Women: Katie Razzall | work=Pembroke College, Oxford | date=31 October 2019 | access-date=6 May 2021}}</ref>
*[[Nigel Rees]] (New College)
*[[Sophy Ridge]] (St Edmund Hall)<ref>{{cite web | url= https://rts.org.uk/article/sophy-ridge-woman-changing-screen-politics | title= Sophy Ridge, the woman changing on-screen politics | work=Royal Television Society |first=Andrew | last=Billen | access-date=1 May 2021}}</ref>
*[[Rachel Riley]] (Oriel)<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/aug/17/rachel-riley-countdown-oriel-college-oxford | title=My first year at university | work=The Guardian |first=Mira | last=Katbamna | date=17 August 2011 | access-date=6 May 2021}}</ref>
*[[James Robbins (journalist)|James Robbins]] (Christ Church)
*[[Nick Robinson (journalist)|Nick Robinson]] (University)
*[[Robert Robinson (broadcaster)|Robert Robinson]] (Exeter)
*[[Vir Sanghvi]] (Brasenose)
*[[Rajdeep Sardesai]] (University)
*[[Tim Sebastian]]
*[[John Sergeant (journalist)|John Sergeant]] (Magdalen)
*[[Peter Sissons]] (University)
*[[Howard K. Smith]] (Merton)
*[[Dan Snow]] (Balliol)<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/dan-snow-history-boy-876350.html | title=Dan Snow: History boy | work=The Independent|location=London |first=Sophie | last=Morris | date=22 October 2011 | access-date=8 May 2021}}</ref>
*[[Peter Snow]] (Balliol)
*[[Francine Stock]] (Jesus)
*[[Manisha Tank]]
*[[Karan Thapar]] (St. Antony's College)
*[[Louis Theroux]] (Magdalen)
*[[Alex Thomson (journalist)|Alex Thomson]] (University)
}}

===Administration===
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*[[Jana Bennett]] Head of Science BBC 1994–2002, Director of Television 2002–06, Director of Vision 2006–
*[[Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose]] (Christ Church) MP 1941–45, Dep Chmn Telegraph 1939–87, Vice Chmn Amalgamated Press 1942–59 <!-- Placed before brother because 2nd Viscount, despite this not being alphabetical order. -->
*[[Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell|Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell (disclaimed 3rd Viscount Camrose)]] (Christ Church) Chairman and Editor-in-Chief ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Telegraph'' until 1986<!-- Not included among "Editors" since he was proprietor -->
*[[John Birt, Baron Birt]] (St Catherine's) BBC Director-General 1992–2000
*[[Michael Checkland]] (Wadham) BBC Director-General 1987–1992
*[[Calvin Cheng]] (Hertford) founder Looque International (2004)
*[[Arthur fforde]] (Trinity) Headmaster of Rugby 1948–57, Chairman of the BBC 1957–64
*[[Maurice Gorham]] (Balliol) Controller BBC Television Service 1946–47, Director Radio Éireann 1953–59
*[[Hugh Greene]] (Merton) BBC Director-General 1960–1969
*[[Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead|Tony Hall]] (Keble) BBC Director-General 2013–2020
*[[George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe]] (Balliol) Chairman of the BBC 1980–83
*[[Jeremy Isaacs]] (Merton) Channel 4 Chief Executive 1981–87
*[[Walter Isaacson]] (Pembroke) Chairman & CEO of CNN 2001–3, President & CEO of Aspen Institute 2003–
*[[Roly Keating]] (Balliol) Controller of BBC Four 2002–04, Controller of BBC Two 2004–
*[[Alasdair Milne]] (New College) BBC Director-General 1982–1987
*[[Rupert Murdoch]] (Worcester) founder, Chairman, and CEO News Corporation 1980–
*[[Frederick Ogilvie]] (Jesus) BBC Director-General 1938–1942
*[[Cathy Rogers]] Creative Director RDF Media (Los Angeles) 2001–
*[[Howard Stringer]] (Merton) Chairman and CEO Sony Corporation 2005–
*[[Mark Thompson (television executive)|Mark Thompson]] (Merton) BBC Director-General 2004–2012 
}}

==The arts==

===Stage and television===
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*[[Maria Aitken]] (St Anne's)
*[[Kenneth Barnes (director)|Kenneth Barnes]] (Christ Church)
*[[Eve Best]] (Lincoln)
*[[Niamh Blackshaw]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dainty |first1=Sophie |title=Hollyoaks star Niamh Blackshaw explains exit from Juliet role |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/hollyoaks/a44116743/hollyoaks-spoilers-niamh-blackshaw-juliet-nightingale-exit/ |access-date=7 June 2023 |work=[[Digital Spy]] |publisher=([[Hearst Communications]]) |date=7 June 2023}}</ref>
*[[Bunny Breckinridge]]
*[[Richard Burton]] (Exeter)
*[[Gemma Chan]] (Worcester)
*[[Hugh Dancy]] (St. Peter's)
*[[Oliver Ford Davies]] (Merton)
*[[Michael Denison]] (Magdalen)
*[[George Devine]]
*[[Rosaline Elbay]] (Oriel)
*[[Alfred Enoch]] (The Queen's)
*[[Michael Flanders]] (Christ Church) Flanders and Swann
*[[Emilia Fox]] (St Catherine's)
*[[Rebecca Front]] (St Hugh's)
*[[Val Gielgud]]
*[[Emily Hamilton]]
*[[Robert Hardy]] (Magdalen)
*[[Charles Hawtrey (stage actor)|Charles Hawtrey]] (Pembroke)
*[[George Procter Hawtrey]] (Pembroke)
*[[Sophie Hunter]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Sophie Hunter Biography|url=http://sophiehunter.net/thehuntress|website=Sophie Hunter Central}}</ref>
*[[Felicity Jones]] (Wadham)
*[[Harry Lloyd]] (Christ Church)
*[[Louis Marks]] (Balliol)<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/oct/07/louis-marks-obituary | title= Louis Marks obituary | work=The Guardian| first=Anthony | last=Hayward | date=7 October 2010 | access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[Ian Marter]]<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/59505.Ian_Marter | title= Ian Marter | work=Goodreads | access-date=3 May 2021}}</ref>
*[[Jodhi May]] (Wadham)
*[[Emily Mortimer]] (Lincoln)
*[[Katherine Parkinson]] (St Hilda's)
*[[Rosamund Pike]] (Wadham)
*[[Hugh Quarshie]] (Christ Church)
*[[Diana Quick]] (Lady Margaret Hall)
*[[Wallace Shawn]]
*[[Waen Shepherd]]
*[[Donald Swann]] (Christ Church) Flanders and Swann
*[[Honeysuckle Weeks]] (Pembroke)
*[[Samuel West]] (Lady Margaret Hall)
*[[Simon Woods]] (Magdalen)
*[[Emily Woof]]
*[[Michael York (actor)|Michael York]] (University)
}}

===Comedy===
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*[[Rowan Atkinson]] (The Queen's)
*[[Angus Deayton]] (New College)
*[[Sophie Duker]] (Wadham)
*[[Paul Foot (comedian)|Paul Foot]] (Merton)
*[[Deborah Frances-White]] (Harris Manchester)
*[[Ivo Graham]] (University)
*[[Richard Herring]] (St Catherine's)
*[[Armando Iannucci]] (University)
*[[Terry Jones]] (St Edmund Hall)
*[[Emma Kennedy]] (St Edmund Hall)
*[[Stewart Lee]] (St Edmund Hall)
*[[Josie Long]] (Lady Margaret Hall)
*[[Dudley Moore]] (Magdalen) (St Edmund Hall)
*[[Al Murray]] (St Edmund Hall)
*[[Michael Palin]] (Brasenose)
*[[Rachel Parris]] (St Hilda's)
*[[Sally Phillips]] (New College)
*[[Jon Plowman]] (University)<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/interview-plowman-s-half-hour-jon-plowman-is-the-straight-man-behind-the-funny-women-played-by-french-and-saunders-life-s-a-gag-the-tv-producer-tells-sabine-durrant-1426479.html | title= INTERVIEW / Plowman's half-hour: Jon Plowman is the straight man behind the funny women played by French and Saunders. Life's a gag, the TV producer tells Sabine Durrant | work=The Independent|location=London | first=Sabine | last=Durrant | date=23 October 2011 | access-date=3 May 2021}}</ref>
*[[John Robins (comedian)|John Robins]] (St Anne's)
*[[David Schneider (actor)|David Schneider]] (Exeter)
*[[Mel Smith]] (New College)
*[[Laura Solon]] (Worcester)
*[[Andy Zaltzman]] (University)
}}

===Film===
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*[[Lindsay Anderson]]
*[[Kate Beckinsale]] (New College)
*[[Frank Cottrell Boyce]] (Keble)
*[[Donald Crisp]] Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 1941
*[[Pippa Cross]]
*[[Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck]] (New College) Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 2007
*[[Alice Eve]] (St. Catherine's)
*[[David Giles (director)|David Giles]] (Oriel)
*[[Hugh Grant]] (New College)
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*[[Tom Hooper]] (University) Academy Award for Best Director 2010 for ''[[The King's Speech]]''
*[[Ken Loach]] (St Peter's)
*[[Terrence Malick]] (Magdalen)
*[[Laura Mulvey]]
*[[Paweł Pawlikowski]] (Magdalen)
*[[Rosamund Pike]] (Wadham)
*[[Dilys Powell]] (Somerville)
*[[Tony Richardson]] Academy Award for Best Director 1963 for ''[[Tom Jones (1963 film)|Tom Jones]]''
*[[John Schlesinger]] (Balliol) Academy Award for Best Director 1969 for ''[[Midnight Cowboy]]''
* [[Emma Watson]] (Lady Margaret Hall, Worcester)
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*[[Michael Winterbottom]] (Balliol)
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}}

===Dance===
*[[Baisali Mohanty]] (Wolfson)

===Music===
'''Composers'''
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*[[Richard Addinsell]] (Hertford)
*[[Thomas Ashwell]] (Cardinal College)
*[[Richard Baker (composer/conductor)|Richard Baker]] (Exeter)
*[[Edward Bairstow]] (Balliol)
*[[Lennox Berkeley]] (Merton)
*[[George Butterworth]] (Trinity)
*[[Barney Childs]] (Oriel)
*[[Reginald de Koven]] (St John's)
*[[John Dowland]] (Christ Church)
*[[Paul Drayton (composer)|Paul Drayton]] (New College)
*[[John Farmer (1835–1901)|John Farmer]] (Balliol)
*[[John Gardner (composer)|John Gardner]] (Exeter)
*[[Howard Goodall]] (Christ Church)
*[[William Henry Harris]] (New College and Christ Church)
*[[Basil Harwood]] (Trinity and Christ Church)
*[[Joseph Horovitz]] (New College)
*[[Michael John Hurd]] (Pembroke)
*[[Stiltskin|Peter Lawlor]] (Brasenose)
*[[Kenneth Leighton]] (The Queen's and Worcester)
*[[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] (Magdalen)
*[[Thomas Morley]] (Christ Church)
*[[Herbert Murrill]] (Worcester) Prof of Composition Royal Academy of Music 1933–52, Hd of Music BBC 1950–52
*[[Tarik O'Regan]] (Pembroke & New College)
*[[Stephen Oliver (composer)|Stephen Oliver]] (Worcester)
*[[Ian Parrott]] (New College)
*[[Hubert Parry|Charles Hubert Hastings Parry]] (Exeter)
*[[Rachel Portman]] (Worcester)
*[[Thomas Preston (composer)|Thomas Preston]] (Magdalen)
*[[Daniel Purcell]] (Magdalen)
*[[Bernard Rose (musician)|Bernard Rose]] (The Queen's and Magdalen)
*[[Erik Routley]] (Mansfield)
*[[Robert Saxton]] (Worcester)
*[[Tim Souster]] (New College)
*[[John Stainer]] (Magdalen)
*[[Robert Steadman]] (Keble)
*[[Robert Still]] (Trinity)
*[[John Taverner]] (Christ Church)
*[[William Walton]] (Christ Church)
*[[Peter Warlock]] (Christ Church)
*[[Thomas Weelkes]] (New College)
*[[James Whitbourn]] (Magdalen and St Stephen's)
*[[Philip Wilby]] (Keble)
*[[Sandy Wilson]] (Oriel)
}}
'''Conductors'''
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*[[Thomas Beecham]] (Wadham)
*[[Harry Bicket]] (Christ Church)
*[[Adrian Boult]] (Christ Church)
*[[Harry Christophers]] (Magdalen)
*[[Nicholas Cleobury]] (Worcester)
*[[Laurence Cummings]] (Christ Church)
*[[Jane Glover]] (St Hugh's)
*[[Vernon Handley]] (Balliol)
*[[John Landor]] London Musical Arts Orchestra
*[[David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)|David Lloyd-Jones]] (Magdalen)
*[[Simon Rattle]] (St Anne's)
*[[Leopold Stokowski]] (The Queen's) Academy Honorary Award 1941
*[[John Whitfield (conductor)|John Whitfield]] (Keble)
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'''Organists'''
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*[[Thomas Armstrong (conductor)|Thomas Armstrong]] (Keble and Christ Church) Principal Royal Academy of Music 1955–68
*[[Timothy Byram-Wigfield]] (Christ Church)
*[[John Clarke Whitfield]]
*[[E. T. Cook]] (The Queen's)
*[[Clive Driskill-Smith]] (Christ Church)
*[[George Job Elvey]] (New College)
*[[Jeremy Filsell]] (Keble)
*[[Philip Hayes (organist)|Philip Hayes]] (Magdalen)
*[[Christopher Herrick]] (Exeter)
*[[Max Kenworthy]] (Brasenose)
*[[John Keys (organist)|John Keys]] (New College)
*[[Christopher J. Monckton|Christopher Monckton]] (Magdalen)
*[[Sydney Nicholson]] (New College)
*[[Walter Parratt]] (Magdalen and Wadham) <!-- Heather Professor of Music and thus Fellow of Wadham -->
*[[Simon Preston]] (Christ Church and Magdalen)
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'''Pianists'''
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*[[John Blakely]]
*[[Paul Crossley (musician)|Paul Crossley]] (Mansfield)
*[[Peter Hill (pianist)|Peter Hill]] (Christ Church)
*[[Ian Pace]] (The Queen's)
*[[Jean Redcliffe-Maud]] (Somerville)
*[[Peter Seivewright]]
*[[Blanc Wan]] (Jesus)
*[[Llŷr Williams]] (The Queen's)
}}
'''Singers'''
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*[[John Mark Ainsley]] (Magdalen)
*[[Robin Blaze]] (Magdalen)
*[[Ian Bostridge]] (Corpus Christi)
*[[James Bowman (countertenor)|James Bowman]] (New College)
*[[Susan Gritton]]
*[[Emma Kirkby]] (Somerville)
*[[Robert Lloyd (singer)|Robert Lloyd]] (Keble)
*[[Peter Pears]] (Hertford)
*[[Myfanwy Piper]] (St Hugh's)
}}
'''Musicologists'''
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*[[Barry Cooper (musicologist)|Barry Cooper]] (University)
*[[Edmund Fellowes]] (Oriel)
*[[Jonathan Freeman-Attwood]] (Christ Church) Principal of the Royal Academy of Music 2008–
*[[Paul Hillier]] (Magdalen)
*[[Nicola LeFanu]] (St Hilda's)
*[[Robert Sherlaw Johnson]] (Worcester)
*[[Alan Tyson]] (All Souls)
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'''Administration'''
*[[Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead]] (Keble) Chief Executive Royal Opera House 2001–
*[[Nicholas Kenyon]] (Balliol) Contr Radio 3 1992–, Dir Proms 1996–2000, Contr Proms, Live Events & TV Classical Music 2000–
*[[Anthony Russell-Roberts]] (New College) Administrative Director of the Royal Ballet 1983–

'''Didgeridoo'''
*[[Graham Wiggins]]

'''Jazz'''
*[[Bill Ashton (jazz musician)|Bill Ashton]]
*[[Pat Fish|Pat Fish (Patrick Huntrods)]] (Merton)
*[[Soweto Kinch]] (Hertford)

'''Country'''
*[[Kris Kristofferson]] (Merton)

'''Folk'''
*[[June Tabor]] (St Hugh's)

'''Rock and pop'''
*[[Mira Aroyo]] (attended but did not graduate)
*[[Foals (band)|Edwin Congreave]]
*[[Guthrie Govan]] (attended but did not graduate)
*[[Mylo|Myles MacInnes]] (Mylo) (Brasenose)
*[[Yannis Philippakis]] (St John's)
*[[Mike Ratledge]] (University)
*[[Mr Hudson]]
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===Museum and gallery directors===
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*[[Robert Anderson (museum director)|Robert Anderson]] (St John's) Director British Museum 1992–2002
*[[Thomas P. Campbell]] Director Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2009–
*[[Kenneth Clark|Kenneth Clark, Baron Clark of Saltwood]] (Trinity) Director National Gallery 1933–46, Surveyor King's Pictures 1934–44, Chairman Arts Council 1953–60
*[[Henry Ellis (librarian)|Henry Ellis]] (St John's) Principal Librarian British Museum 1827–56
*[[T. D. Kendrick]] (Oriel) Director and Principal Librarian British Museum 1950–59
*[[Frederic G. Kenyon]] (Magdalen) Director and Principal Librarian British Museum 1909–31
*[[Michael Levey]] (Exeter) Director National Gallery 1973–86
*[[Neil MacGregor]] (New College) Director National Gallery 1987–2002, Director British Museum 2002–, Chairman World Collections 2008–
*[[Edward Maunde Thompson]] (University) Principal Librarian British Museum 1888–98, Director and Principal Librarian 1898–1909
*[[Nicholas Penny]] (Balliol) Director National Gallery 2008–
*[[John Pope-Hennessy]] (Balliol) Director Victoria and Albert Museum 1967–73, Director and Principal Librarian British Museum 1974–76, Director 1976–79
*[[John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden]] (Magdalen) V-C Reading Univ 1950–63, Chmn Wolfenden Cttee 1954–57, Chmn Univ Grants Cttee 1963–68, Dir & Prin Lib Brit Mus 1969–74
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===Art and history of art===
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*[[Peter Bales]] (Gloucester Hall)
*[[Wendy Beckett]] (St Anne's)
*[[Edward Burne-Jones]] (Exeter)
*[[W. G. Collingwood]] (University)
*[[Vincent Cronin]] (Trinity)
*[[Andrew Graham-Dixon]]
*[[Robert Hewison]] (Brasenose)
*[[Bevis Hillier]] (Magdalen)
*[[Kurt Jackson]] (St Peter's)
*[[Martin Kemp (art historian)|Martin Kemp]] (Trinity)
*[[Tom Phillips (artist)|Tom Phillips]] (St Catherine's)
*[[George Rickey]] (Balliol)
*[[John Ruskin]] (Corpus Christi)
*[[Desmond Shawe-Taylor]] (University)
}}

===Architecture===

*[[Thomas Graham Jackson]] (Wadham)
*[[Edward James]] (Christ Church)
*[[John Martin Robinson]]
*[[Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet|Sacheverell Sitwell]] (Balliol)
*[[Christopher Wren]] (Wadham and All Souls)
*Jack Diamond

==Academic disciplines==

{{main|List of University of Oxford people in academic disciplines}}
{{see also|List of University of Oxford alumni by academic discipline|List of University of Oxford academics by academic discipline}}
This includes:
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* Law
* Theology and the Study of Religions
* Historians
* Classicists, Byzantinists, Archaeologists
* Modern Languages
* Philosophers
* Economists
* Geography
* Anthropology and ethnography
* Sociology
* Politics, political philosophy, and international relations
* Asian studies
* Mathematicians and statisticians
* Scientists
** Naturalists, botanists, and zoologists
** Medicine
** Psychologists, psychiatrists, and physiologists of the brain
** Chemists
** Physicists and astronomers
*** Astronomers Royal
*** Other physicists and astronomers
** Computers, electronics, and robotics
** Engineering and agriculture
** Geology
** Meteorology
}}

==Educationalists==
{{main|List of University of Oxford people in education}}

==Sports people, explorers and adventurers==
{{main|List of University of Oxford people in sport, exploration, and adventuring}}

==Business people==
{{main|List of University of Oxford people in business}}

==Chefs and wine experts==
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*[[Oz Clarke]] (Pembroke)
*[[Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall]] (St Peter's)
*[[Nigella Lawson]] (Lady Margaret Hall)
*[[Jancis Robinson]] (St Anne's)
*[[Rick Stein]] (New College)

==Fictional Oxonians==

{{main|List of fictional University of Oxford people}}

==See also==

*[[List of Rhodes Scholars]]
*[[List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford]]
*[[Heads of Houses|List of Current Heads of Oxford University Colleges, Societies, and Halls]]

==External links==
*[http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/bshm/zingaz/OxfordPeople.html British Society for the History of Mathematics: Oxford individuals]
*[http://blanchflower.org/alumni/oxfalumn.html Famous Oxford Alumni]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070705190444/http://www.ox.ac.uk/aboutoxford/famous.shtml Short Alumni List Published by Oxford]

==References==
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