List of people associated with New College, Oxford

This is a list of notable people affiliated with New College, Oxford, including former students, and current and former academics and fellows. The college is a part of Oxford University, England. The disproportionate amount of men on this list is partially explained by the fact that for the first 600 years of its history, from its foundation in 1379 until 1979, women were barred from studying at New College.

14th to 19th centuries

 * Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury
 * John Macleod Campbell Crum, priest and hymnwriter
 * Sir T.W. Edgeworth David (1858–1934), geologist, polar explorer
 * William Sealy Gosset, statistician
 * William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury (1828–1848)
 * Thomas Hughes, footballer, won FA Cup twice in 1870s
 * The Ven. John Ingram, English Jesuit and martyr
 * Leopold George Wickham Legg, historian and editor of the Dictionary of National Biography
 * William Pargeter, eighteenth-century physician known for his interest in mental illness
 * Francis Turner, 17th century Bishop of Ely
 * William Warham, former Archbishop of Canterbury
 * William Waynflete, founder of Magdalen College and Lord Chancellor of England; doubtful if he was an alumnus.
 * James Woodforde, clergyman

20th to 21st centuries

 * Katharine Birbalsingh, Headmistress and Founder of the Michaela Community School


 * Simon Baron-Cohen, professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of Cambridge
 * Kate Beckinsale, actor
 * Tony Benn, Labour Party politician


 * Gyles Brandreth, writer and broadcaster, Conservative MP for Chester


 * Gary Cooper, musician and conductor
 * Michael Crick, journalist
 * Richard Crossman, politician


 * John Fowles, novelist


 * Hugh Gaitskell, Labour Party leader (1955–63)


 * John Galsworthy, novelist and playwright


 * Victor Gollancz, publisher
 * Hugh Grant, actor


 * General Sir John Hackett, soldier
 * J. B. S. Haldane, biologist


 * Bernard Longley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham


 * Neil MacGregor, art historian, director of the British Museum
 * Outram Marshall, clergyman, organising secretary of the Church Union


 * Peter Francis Middleton, pilot and grandfather of Catherine, Princess of Wales
 * Alasdair Milne, BBC Director General
 * Kate Mosse, novelist


 * Rageh Omaar, broadcast journalist


 * Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi


 * Mel Smith, comedian and film director


 * Rick Stein, chef


 * Frank Thompson, SOE officer.


 * Naomi Wolf, American feminist
 * Lucy Worsley, historian, author and television presenter

Fellows and staff

 * A. J. Ayer, Wykeham Professor of logic
 * Isaiah Berlin
 * Alan Bullock
 * Raymond Carr
 * David Cecil
 * Richard Dawkins, Biology
 * Michael Dummett, Wykeham Professor of logic
 * Robin Lane Fox, Ancient History
 * J. B. S. Haldane (also an alumnus), Biology
 * W. D. Hamilton, Biology
 * G. H. Hardy
 * H. L. A. Hart, Philosophy, Jurisprudence
 * Nigel Hitchin, Savilian Professor of Geometry
 * Julian Huxley, Biology
 * Willis Lamb, Wykeham Professor of Physics
 * Hermione Lee, first woman Professorial Fellow, from 1998
 * Jane Lightfoot
 * Sir Henry Martin, MP for Oxford University, fellow 1582 (also alumnus)
 * Rudolf Peierls, Wykeham Professor of Physics
 * Craig Raine
 * Marcus du Sautoy
 * Jane Shaw, Dean of Divinity
 * Jeremy Sheehy, Dean of Divinity
 * Joe Silk, Savilian Professor of Astronomy
 * William Archibald Spooner
 * Christopher Tolkien
 * Harold Wilson

Organists and directors of music

 * 1694 John Weldon
 * 1776 Philip Hayes
 * 1825 Alfred Bennett
 * 1830–60 Stephen Elvey
 * 1860–69 George Benjamin Arnold
 * 1870 James Taylor
 * 1901 Hugh Allen
 * 1919 William Henry Harris
 * 1929 John Dykes Bower
 * 1933 Sydney Watson
 * 1938 Herbert Kennedy Andrews
 * 1956 Meredith Davies
 * 1959 David Lumsden.
 * 1976 Edward Higginbottom
 * 2014 Robert Quinney