List of fictional University of Oxford people

This is a list of fictional people associated with the University of Oxford. Some characters attended fictional colleges; others attended genuine colleges at the university.

List

 * Sir Humphrey Appleby GCB (Baillie, perhaps Balliol College) Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister
 * Stephen Barley The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
 * Lyra Belacqua (the fictional Jordan) His Dark Materials
 * Edmund Bertram  Mansfield Park 
 * Anthony Blanche Brideshead Revisited
 * James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies
 * Lord Brideshead Brideshead Revisited
 * Tom Brown (St Ambrose's, probably based on Oriel) Tom Brown at Oxford
 * Prince Bumpo Doctor Dolittle
 * 'Chacko' The God of Small Things
 * The Clerk of Oxenford The Canterbury Tales
 * Simon Cormack The Negotiator
 * Frasier Crane Frasier
 * Thomas Crown The Thomas Crown Affair
 * Dick Diver (Rhodes Scholar) Tender Is the Night
 * Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
 * Kivrin Engle Doomsday Book
 * Gervase Fen (the fictional St Christopher's) by Edmund Crispin
 * Edward Ferrars Sense and Sensibility
 * Lord Sebastian Flyte (Christ Church) Brideshead Revisited
 * Charles Gardner (the fictional St Sebastian's) Hut 33
 * Jay Gatsby The Great Gatsby
 * Rupert Giles Buffy the Vampire Slayer
 * Patrick Grant (the fictional St Mark's) by Margaret Yorke
 * Verdant Green (Brazenface) The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
 * Rev. Mr. Hale (the fictional Plymouth, based on Exeter College) North and South
 * Basil Hallward The Picture of Dorian Gray
 * Bill Haydon by John le Carré
 * Captain Hook (Balliol) Peter Pan
 * Master Keaton and his wife (Somerville)
 * John Kemp Jill
 * Vanessa Kensington Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
 * Chatter Lal Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
 * Canon Leigh (Christ Church) Towers in the Mist by Elizabeth Goudge
 * Alwin Lowdham The Notion Club Papers
 * Helen Magnus Sanctuary
 * Pincher Martin (Christ Church)
 * Mary, Marie, Margaret and Myfanwy (the fictional St Bride's College (Somerville)) by Philip Larkin
 * Ranald McKechnie (the fictional Surrey College) A Staircase in Surrey
 * Jenny Mellor (Merton College) An Education
 * Colonel Sebastian Moran The Adventure of the Empty House
 * Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse (St John's) Colin Dexter's Morse novels and TV adaptations
 * Fox Mulder The X-Files
 * Duncan Patullo (the fictional Surrey College) A Staircase in Surrey
 * Paul The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
 * Paul Pennyfeather (the fictional Scone College) Decline and Fall
 * Charles Reding (the fictional St Saviour's College) Loss and Gain
 * Rumpole of the Bailey (Keble or the fictional St Joseph's)
 * Mary Russell by Laurie R. King
 * Charles Ryder Brideshead Revisited
 * Connie Sachs by John le Carré
 * Donna Sheridan (New College) Mamma Mia!
 * George Smiley (Lincoln) by John le Carré
 * Roderick Spode The Code of the Woosters
 * Gwen Stacy (Somerville) in The Amazing Spider-Man 2
 * Prince Nasir al-Subaai and Prince Meshal al-Subaai  Syriana 
 * Connie Tate The West Wing TV series
 * Sir Leigh Teabing The Da Vinci Code
 * Paul Temple by Francis Durbridge
 * Nigel Thornberry  The Wild Thornberrys 
 * Henry Tilney Northanger Abbey
 * Professor Timberlake (J. R. R. Tolkien) (the fictional Surrey College)  A Staircase in Surrey 
 * Harriet Vane (the fictional Shrewsbury College (Somerville)) by Dorothy L. Sayers
 * Lord Peter Wimsey (Balliol) by Dorothy L. Sayers
 * Viscount St George Wimsey (Christ Church) by Dorothy L. Sayers
 * Bertie Wooster (Magdalen) by P. G. Wodehouse
 * Lord Henry Wotton The Picture of Dorian Gray
 * Charles Xavier (Pembroke) X-Men