List of alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford

A list of alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford.

The list includes alumni associated with the Delegacy for Unattached Students, the Delegacy for Non-Collegiate Students and St Catherine's Society prior to the official founding of the college.

Academics

 * R. J. Q. Adams – American historian who specializes in the history of Great Britain
 * Christopher Bishop – Chief Research Scientist at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, and Chair of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh
 * Tim Brighouse – educationist, previously Schools Commissioner for London
 * Ben Britton - materials scientist and engineer
 * Andrew Stewart Coats - cardiologist
 * John Cornforth – 1975 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
 * Denis Cosgrove – former Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles
 * Chris Greening - biochemist and microbiologist
 * Carl Marci – American neuroscientist
 * Mark Miodownik – materials scientist, engineer, broadcaster
 * Seamus Perry - lecturer in English Literature
 * Gene Sharp – leading theoretician on nonviolent struggle
 * John Vane – 1992 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
 * Rudolf Vleeskruijer – founder of the English Institute of the University of Utrecht
 * John E. Walker – 1997 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
 * Paul Wilmott – British mathematician and quantitative analyst
 * David Yates – previous Warden of Robinson College, Cambridge

Public life

 * Benazir Bhutto – Pakistani politician, elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the College 1989
 * John Birt – former Director-General of the BBC
 * Simon Bridges - New Zealand politician, previously Leader of the Opposition (National Party)
 * Christian Cole - barrister, first black graduate of the University of Oxford
 * Alexander Curtis - youngest mayor in the United Kingdom
 * Barun De – historian; formerly Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission
 * Clark Kent Ervin – first Inspector General of the US Department of Homeland Security
 * Timothy Garden, Baron Garden – Liberal Democrat
 * Farooq Leghari – former President of Pakistan
 * Peter Mandelson – architect of "New Labour", several times a UK Cabinet minister, and Trade Commissioner in the Barroso Commission 2004–2008
 * Hiren Mukherjee – Member of Parliament, Calcutta North East, 1952–77
 * Richard Newby, Baron Newby – Liberal Democrat politician
 * Bob Peirce – diplomat
 * Yannis Stournaras - Governor of the Bank of Greece
 * H. S. Suhrawardy – first Bengali Prime Minister of Pakistan
 * Eric Williams – Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

Religion

 * Alan Chesters – Church of England Bishop of Blackburn
 * Audrey Elkington – Archdeacon of Bodmin

Writers

 * Clive Barnes – theatre critic
 * Mark Beech – writer and broadcaster, rock critic
 * Michael Billington – critic, author and radio presenter
 * Euros Bowen – Welsh poet
 * Jeremy Duns – British author
 * Adam Foulds – novelist and poet
 * Joseph Heller – American author and playwright; Catch-22
 * Ernest Hilbert – American poet, book critic, opera librettist, and editor
 * Sam Llewellyn – author
 * Chris Maslanka – writer and broadcaster
 * David Rudkin – playwright
 * Paul Spike – author, editor and journalist
 * Maurice Wiggin - journalist and author
 * Simon Winchester – author and historian; The Surgeon of Crowthorne; The Map that Changed the World
 * Jeanette Winterson – author of books including Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Sexing the Cherry, Written on the Body, The World and Other Places
 * P. C. Wren – novelist, author of Beau Geste

Performing arts

 * Alice Eve – actress
 * Emilia Fox – actress
 * Grant Gee – film director, best known for the documentary Meeting People is Easy
 * Guthrie Govan - musician
 * Richard Herring – comedian
 * Olly Mann – podcaster and broadcaster, co-creator of the podcast Answer Me This!
 * James Marsh - film director
 * George Peck – theatre director, founder of the Oxford School of Drama
 * Tom Phillips – artist and Royal Academician
 * Alex Polizzi – television presenter
 * Benjamin Ross – film director
 * Mark Simpson – clarinetist, BBC Young Musician of the Year 2006, and BBC Young Composer of the Year 2006
 * Ben Willbond - actor, star of Horrible Histories, Yonderland and Ghosts
 * Emily Woof – actress
 * Helen Zaltzman – podcaster, co-creator of the podcast Answer Me This!

Business

 * Victor Blank – Chairman of Lloyds TSB
 * Hans-Paul Burkner – Chairman of The Boston Consulting Group
 * J. Paul Getty – American mogul and philanthropist

Sports

 * Phil de Glanville – former England rugby captain
 * David Hemery – Olympic gold medallist in athletics
 * Christopher Liwski – American rower and 2005 Oxford Blue
 * Matthew Pinsent – Quadruple Olympic gold medallist in rowing
 * Colin Smith – British rower and three time Oxford Blue
 * Andrew Triggs Hodge- British rower, double Olympic gold medallist
 * Derek Wyatt – rugby international, former MP and founder, Oxford Internet Institute