List of Oxfordian theory supporters

This is a list of supporters of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship, which was first promulgated in 1920.


 * Percy Allen — journalist, theatre historian
 * Mark Anderson — journalist, researcher, author, astrophysicist
 * Charles Wisner Barrell — researcher, author
 * Charles Beauclerk, Earl of Burford — writer
 * Charles Sidney Beauclerk — Jesuit priest
 * Michael Delahoyde — professor of English, Washington State University
 * Louis P. Bénézet — American school reformer
 * Harry Blackmun — U.S. Supreme Court Justice
 * Marjorie Bowen — British historian, biographer, novelist
 * Gelett Burgess — author, critic, poet, artist
 * John Byrne — British-born Canadian-American comic book artist and writer
 * Michael Chiklis — actor
 * Montagu William Douglas — soldier and colonial administrator.
 * Ren Draya — professor of English & communications, Blackburn College
 * Roland Emmerich — film director, screenwriter, producer; producer and director of Anonymous (2011)
 * William Farina — biographer, nonfiction researcher and author, essayist
 * Bert Fields — lawyer and writer
 * Sigmund Freud — pioneer of psychoanalysis
 * Michael H. Hart — astrophysicist, author of The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
 * Warren Hope — academic, university English professor, author
 * Christmas Humphreys — British barrister, judge, author, Buddhist scholar
 * Jeremy Irons — actor
 * Sir Derek Jacobi — Shakespearean actor, director
 * Richard Kennedy — American children's book writer
 * Felicia Hardison Londré — curators’ professor of theatre at the University of Missouri-Kansas City
 * Lynne Kositsky — Canadian author of poetry and young adult historical fiction
 * J. Thomas Looney — British school teacher, researcher, author
 * David McCullough — historian, author, biographer
 * Paul Nitze — longtime high-ranking U.S. government official and Presidential advisor, ambassador
 * Charlton Greenwood Ogburn — lawyer
 * Charlton Ogburn — investigative journalist, researcher, author
 * John Orloff — screenwriter
 * Sir Roger Penrose — mathematician, Nobel Laureate in Physics
 * Anne Pluto — professor of literature and theatre, Lesley University
 * Enoch Powell - politician
 * Keanu Reeves - actor
 * Gerald Henry Rendall — professor of Greek
 * Anne Rice — author
 * Mark Rylance — Shakespearean actor and director, director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre 1995–2005
 * Don Rubin — professor emeritus of theatre at York University in Toronto; Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship vice president
 * Antonin Scalia — U.S. Supreme Court Justice
 * Joseph Sobran — journalist, author, researcher
 * John Paul Stevens — U.S. Supreme Court Justice
 * Roger Stritmatter — professor of humanities at Coppin State University and the general editor of Brief Chronicles
 * Peter A. Sturrock — British astrophysicist, Stanford University professor of applied physics, Arctowski Medalist, author of AKA Shakespeare: A Scientific Approach to the Authorship Question
 * Patrick Walker (40 Watt Sun) — musician, songwriter.
 * Bernard Mordaunt Ward — military officer, author
 * Alexander Waugh — writer
 * Douglas Wilson - CREC pastor, theologian, social critic
 * Daniel L. Wright — Professor of English, Concordia University, Portland; Director of the Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre
 * Michael York — actor