List of alumni of Hertford College, Oxford

A list of alumni of Hertford College, Oxford, including alumni of its two predecessor institutions, Hart Hall and Magdalen Hall.

Hart Hall (1282–1740)

 * Joseph Bowles, Bodley's Librarian
 * Thomas Bray, clergyman and abolitionist
 * Saint Alexander Briant, Jesuit martyr
 * Henry Bromley, politician
 * Morgan Coleman, MP for Newport, Cornwall
 * John Donne, poet, Anglican priest
 * Payne Fisher, poet
 * Nicholas Fuller, Hebraist, philologist
 * John Glynne, jurist
 * Peter Heylyn, polemicist
 * John Hutchins, antiquary
 * Thomas Manton, Puritan clergyman and chaplain to Oliver Cromwell
 * John Norden, cartographer
 * Henry Pelham, British Whig Prime Minister
 * John Selden, jurist, MP for Oxford University
 * George Augustus Selwyn, politician
 * Thomas Shirley, politician, soldier, adventurer, and privateer
 * Jonathan Swift, satirist, poet, Anglican priest, author of Gulliver's Travels
 * Henry Swinburne, ecclesiastical lawyer

Hertford College, first foundation 1740–1816

 * Charles James Fox, Whig statesman
 * John Hippisley, politician, diplomat

Magdalen Hall, old site 1480–1822

 * Robert Ashley, writer
 * Daniel Burgess, Presbyterian minister
 * Matthew Bryan, Jacobite preacher
 * Walter Charleton, Epicurean philosopher
 * Samuel Daniel, poet, historian
 * Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice
 * Thomas Hobbes, political philosopher, author of Leviathan
 * John Huckell, poet
 * Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, historian, statesman
 * John Gilbert, Archbishop of York
 * Narcissus Marsh, Primate of All Ireland
 * Richard Morton, physician
 * Philip Nye, clergyman and member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines
 * Robert Plot, naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and first Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum
 * John Rickman, statistician
 * Obadiah Sedgwick, clergyman and member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines
 * George Shaw, biologist
 * Fleetwood Sheppard, courtier
 * William Tyndale, Bible translator, Reformation martyr
 * Henry Vane the Younger, Parliamentarian statesman
 * Sir Ralph Verney, 1st Baronet, of Middle Claydon, politician
 * William Waller, Parliamentarian soldier
 * John Wilkins, naturalist, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, and founder of the Royal Society
 * Benjamin Woodbridge, clergyman and controversialist

Magdalen Hall, new site 1822–1874

 * Montagu Burrows, first Chichele Professor of Modern History
 * William Robinson Clark, theologian
 * William Cowper, first Dean of Sydney
 * John Thadeus Delane, journalist
 * Clement Jackson, founder of the Amateur Athletic Association
 * Arthur Mayo VC, soldier
 * Francis McDougall, first Anglican bishop of Labuan and the Kingdom of Sarawak
 * Brownlow North, evangelist
 * Thorold Rogers, political economist
 * William Williams, first Anglican Bishop of Waiapu, New Zealand
 * Leonard Williams, third Bishop of Waiapu (son of William Williams)
 * Nathaniel Woodard, Priest in the Church of England, founder of the Woodard Corporation

Hertford College, second foundation 1874–

 * Richard Addinsell, composer of film music
 * Helen Alexander, businesswoman
 * C. A. J. Armstrong, historian
 * Sharon Ashbrook, chemist
 * Bernard Ashmole, archaeologist, art historian
 * Andrea Ashworth, author, academic
 * Christopher Ballinas Valdés, Mexican public policy expert and civil servant
 * Edmund Bartley-Denniss, politician and cyclist
 * Charles Bean, war correspondent and historian
 * John Behan, educationist, jurist
 * Marian Bell, economist
 * Catherine Bennett, journalist
 * David Blomfield, leader of the Liberal Party group on Richmond upon Thames Council, writer, book editor and local historian
 * Martin Bridson FRS, mathematician
 * Jasmine Brown, author
 * Isaac Hawkins Browne, industrialist
 * Fiona Bruce, BBC newsreader
 * Rupert Bruce-Mitford, archaeologist and scholar
 * Anthony Bushell, actor
 * Carole Cadwalladr, journalist
 * Walter Carey, clergyman
 * Victor Cha, national security specialist
 * Jean Chapdelaine, diplomat
 * Calvin Cheng, Singapore modelling agency head, former Nominated Member of Parliament
 * William Robinson Clark, theologian
 * Nick Cohen, political journalist
 * Geoffrey Corbett, civil servant and mountaineer
 * W. Maxwell Cowan, neuroscientist
 * Sherard Cowper-Coles, diplomat
 * George Dangerfield, journalist, historian
 * Daniel Dennett, philosopher of the mind
 * David Dilks, historian
 * Jack Herbert Driberg, anthropologist
 * Bill Duff, Arabist
 * Jack Duppa-Miller, sailor
 * Alfred Earle, bishop
 * J. Meade Falkner, novelist, The Lost Stradivarius
 * Richard W. Fisher, diplomat
 * Warren Fisher, civil servant
 * Adam Fleming, BBC newsreader
 * Thomas Fletcher, diplomat
 * Nicholas Foulkes, historian, journalist
 * Henry Sanderson Furniss, 1st Baron Sanderson, socialist educationalist
 * Helen Ghosh, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, former Director-General of the National Trust.
 * Pinny Grylls, documentary film maker
 * Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Channel 4 newsreader
 * Gideon Henderson, geochemist, climate-change scientist
 * Nicholas Henderson, diplomat
 * Jeremy Heywood, civil servant
 * Leonard Hodgson, church historian
 * Jeffrey John, Dean of St Alban's Cathedral
 * James John Joicey, amateur entomologist
 * Mark S. Joshi, financial mathematician
 * Natasha Kaplinsky, ITN newsreader
 * Khalid Jawed Khan, Attorney General of Pakistan
 * Soweto Kinch, jazz saxophonist, rapper
 * Mark A. Lemmon FRS, Chair of Pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine
 * Seth Lerer, literary critic
 * Alain LeRoy Locke, writer of the Harlem Renaissance
 * Jurek Martin, journalist
 * Ronald Martland, former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
 * Gavin Maxwell, naturalist, author of Ring of Bright Water
 * Arthur Mayo, recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * Roland Michener, former Governor General of Canada
 * Dom Mintoff, former Prime Minister of Malta
 * Ian Morison FRAS, 35th Gresham Professor of Astronomy
 * David Naylor, medical researcher
 * Edward Max Nicholson, founder of the World Wildlife Fund
 * Richard Norton-Taylor, journalist, playwright
 * Elizabeth Norton, historian and author
 * Richard Parsons, founder of CGP Guides
 * Peter Pears, tenor
 * Barbara A. Perry, constitutional lawyer
 * James Pettifer, scholar of the Balkans
 * Bridget Phillipson, MP for Houghton and Sunderland South
 * Tracey Poirier, Rhodes Scholar, first female Vermont Army National Guard general officer
 * Maisie Richardson-Sellers, actor
 * Nigel Saul, historian
 * Joseph Gordon Saunders, composer
 * Jacqui Smith, former British Home Secretary
 * David Spedding, former Head of MI6
 * Manisha Tank, CNN newsreader
 * Thum Ping Tjin, the first Singaporean to swim the English Channel
 * Ed Vulliamy, journalist and world reporter
 * Evelyn Waugh, author of Brideshead Revisited, journalist
 * Roger Westbrook, diplomat
 * Byron White, U.S. Associate Supreme Court Justice
 * Athol Williams, South African poet and social philosopher
 * Tobias Wolff, author of This Boy's Life
 * Nathaniel Woodard, educationalist
 * Alison Young, legal scholar, Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge