List of alumni of St John's College, Oxford

A list of alumni of St John's College, Oxford, former students of the college of the University of Oxford. The overwhelming maleness of this list is partially explained by the fact that for over 90% of its history (from its foundation in 1555 until 1979), women were barred from studying at St John's. The college maintains a growing list of profiles of prominent recent alumni on its website.

Politicians in the United Kingdom

 * George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave
 * Charles Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor
 * Henry Croke
 * Edward du Cann
 * William Duckett, MP
 * Gwynfor Evans, former President of Plaid Cymru and first MP
 * John Gilbert, Baron Gilbert
 * Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington
 * Auberon Herbert, MP and political philosopher.
 * Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham
 * Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha
 * Peter Mews of Hinton Admiral
 * Rhodri Morgan, former First Minister of Wales
 * John Parker, MP
 * Thomas Russell
 * John Smith, 17th-century Chancellor of the Exchequer
 * Shaun Spiers
 * Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham
 * William Trumbull
 * Henry Wallop
 * Francis Windebank
 * Sir Richard Wrottesley, 7th Baronet

Civil servants and diplomats

 * Alan Bailey, formerly Permanent Secretary, Department of Transport
 * Mervyn Brown, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Madagascar (1967–70), High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Tanzania (1975–78), High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Nigeria (1979–83)
 * Ash Carter, United States Secretary of Defense
 * Charles Crawford, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996–98), Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Yugoslavia (2001–03), Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Poland (2003–07)
 * David Faulkner, civil servant
 * David Frost, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Denmark (2006–08), CEO of the Scotch Whisky Association (2014–)
 * Arnold Heeney
 * Geoffrey Holland, former Permanent Secretary, Department of Employment and Department of Education and Vice-Chancellor, Exeter University; chairman, Quality Improvement Agency
 * Khoo Boon Hui, president of INTERPOL
 * Michael McFaul, United States Ambassador to Russia (2012-2014)
 * Frank Newsam
 * Michael Partridge, former Permanent Secretary, Department of Social Security; Pro-Chancellor and Governor, Middlesex University
 * Sir David Pepper, former director of GCHQ
 * Maharaj Muthoo Doctorate from Oxford as Commonwealth scholar; Indian Government & United Nations System senior civil servant
 * John Rickard
 * R. James Woolsey, Jr., United States Under Secretary of the Navy (1977–79), 16th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1993–95)
 * Chris Wormald, Permanent Secretary, Department of Health
 * Heath Tarbert, Nominee for Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Markets and Development in the U.S. (2017)

Judges and lawyers

 * Nigel Carrington, lawyer and Vice-Chancellor of University of the Arts London
 * Brian Cregan, Irish High Court judge
 * James Eyre, judge
 * Nicholas Hamblen, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
 * Gérard La Forest, former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
 * Keith Lindblom
 * John Nicholl
 * Stephen Richards, Lord Justice
 * John Silvester, Recorder of London
 * Mark Warby, judge
 * James Whitelocke

Other bishops

 * Alfred Averill, Archbishop of New Zealand
 * Paul Barber
 * John Buckeridge
 * Robert Hay, Bishop of Buckingham
 * Kenneth Kirk
 * Peter Mews
 * Hugh Montefiore
 * Edwin Morris, Archbishop of Wales
 * Peter Selby
 * David Wilcox
 * Kenneth Woollcombe

Other priests

 * Frederick Copleston
 * Edward Drax Free
 * Vicesimus Knox
 * Peter Thomson
 * George Austen
 * James Austen
 * Henry Thomas Austen

Journalists and writers

 * Mark Abley, poet and journalist
 * Kingsley Amis, novelist
 * Daniel Blythe, author
 * Ivor Bulmer-Thomas
 * David Chater, award-winning British television foreign correspondent
 * Tom Chatfield, author
 * Victoria Coren Mitchell
 * Edmund Crispin
 * Evan Davis, journalist
 * Janine Gibson, journalist
 * Robert Graves, poet
 * John Lawrence Hammond, journalist and editor
 * A. E. Housman, classical scholar, and poet
 * Simon Jack, BBC Business Editor, Presenter of Today Programme
 * Simon Jenkins, journalist and editor
 * John Lanchester
 * Philip Larkin, poet and librarian
 * Bronwen Maddox
 * Vic Marks, journalist and cricketer
 * Timothy Mo, novelist
 * Musa Okwonga, writer
 * Peter Preston, journalist and editor
 * Alan Ross
 * Hugh Schofield, BBC Paris correspondent
 * James Shirley
 * J. K. Stanford
 * D. J. Taylor
 * James Townley
 * Jason Webster
 * Norman Webster, journalist and editor
 * John Wain
 * Henry Willobie, poet
 * Jonathan Wright, journalist and translator

Sports

 * Sue Day, England rugby captain
 * John Davis, Welsh cricketer
 * William Evans, Welsh international footballer
 * Mike Fitzpatrick, footballer
 * Chris Penny, American rower, 1988 Blue Boat, Olympic silver medallist
 * Barbara Slater, sports producer and gymnast
 * Chris Tavare, England international cricketer
 * John Young, cricketer

Others

 * Robert G. W. Anderson, museum curator
 * Cyril Beeson, entomologist and forest conservator
 * Arthur Bell, consultant paediatrician
 * Trevor Bench-Capon, computer scientist
 * Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, scientist
 * Paula Booth - Daniell Chair of Chemistry at King's College London
 * Ian Bostridge, tenor
 * Christopher Brewin
 * Hector Catling, archaeologist
 * Winston Churchill
 * Jared Cohen, Director of Google Ideas think-tank
 * John Cottingham
 * Reginald de Koven
 * Andrew Dilnot
 * Henry Ellis, librarian
 * Reginald John Farrer
 * Antony Flew, philosopher
 * Robert Fludd
 * Paul Grice, philosopher (fellow 1939–1967, not an alumnus)
 * Ronald Gurner
 * Tyrone Guthrie, theatre director and producer
 * Peter Hacker, philosopher (fellow 1966–2006, not an alumnus)
 * Ralph Hartley
 * Paul M. Hayes (1942–1995), historian
 * Eric Heaton
 * Gilbert Highet
 * Alastair Humphreys, adventurer
 * Roger Howell, Jr.
 * Frank Kearton, Baron Kearton
 * Patrick Kennedy (actor)
 * Riad al Khouri, Economist; former Dean of the Business School, Lebanese French University, Iraq; currently principal, Discover Studies, Jordan, and member of the board of directors, Global Challenges Forum, Switzerland
 * Jason Kingsley, Rebellion Developments co-founder
 * Belinda Kirk, explorer
 * Alexander Leeper, Australian educationist
 * Henry Longueville Mansel
 * Mohammed Mamdani, social entrepreneur
 * Sir John Marsham, 1st Baronet
 * Edward Maufe, architect and designer
 * Gilbert Murray, classical scholar
 * Yannis Philippakis, lead singer of British indie rock band Foals (band)
 * Alfred W. Pollard
 * Quilla Constance, aka Jennifer Allen, fine artist
 * William Mitchell Ramsay
 * Sanjeev Sanyal, writer and economist
 * Faiza Shaheen, economist
 * Peter Frederick Strawson, philosopher
 * Jethro Tull, agriculturist
 * Sundeep Waslekar, Founder and President of Strategic Foresight Group think-tank
 * Stephen Wolfram
 * Bernard Taylor (Banker)

Fictional

 * Inspector Morse, fictional TV crime series character, suggested to have won a scholarship