List of people associated with Wolfson College, Oxford

A list of people associated with Wolfson College, Oxford. This includes former students, Fellows and Presidents of the college.

Former students



 * Gertrud Seidmann, oldest Oxford student who was awarded a Certificate of Graduate Attainment at the age 91.

Science

 * Michael Butler, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK
 * Dame Kay Davies, Human Geneticist
 * Richard Ellis, extragalactic astronomer, Steele Professor at Caltech and former Director, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
 * Artur Ekert, one of the pioneers of quantum cryptography, and winner of the Maxwell and Hughes medals, and the Descartes Prize
 * Alison Gopnik, Professor of Psychology, Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley
 * Michael Hinchey, Irish computer scientist, Director at the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (Lero), University of Limerick, Ireland
 * Nigel Hitchin, British mathematician, winner of the Sylvester Medal
 * Michele Mosca, quantum scientist known for his work on quantum algorithms and NMR quantum computation
 * James R. Norris, mathematician working in probability theory and stochastic analysis, Professor of Stochastic Analysis in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge
 * Tim Palmer FRS, Climate scientist at the University of Oxford
 * Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke, a Dutch historian of science, who began his academic career as a marine geologist
 * Michael Spivey, British computer scientist at the University of Oxford, who wrote an Oberon-2 compiler.

Law

 * Karim Asad Ahmad Khan, Prosecutor in the UN International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, counsel before Special Courts in East Timor and Sierra Leone
 * Dame Hazel Genn, authority on civil justice
 * The Hon. Justice Francisco Rezek, distinguished Brazilian jurist and member of the International Court of Justice and formerly Foreign Minister of Brazil

History & literature

 * Joe Andrew, Professor of Russian Literature at Keele University
 * Henry Hardy, author and editor, publisher of Isaiah Berlin's papers
 * Josef W. Meri, specialist in Islam in the pre-modern period, Islamic cultural and social history
 * Iain Pears, popular British novelist, art historian

Politics & government

 * Tony Buti, Australian politician and Australian Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
 * Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland, US state
 * Tom Phillips (diplomat), Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies.
 * Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, businessman, former Iranian government official, and the fourth child of Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former President of Iran
 * Nafisa Shah, Member of Pakistan's National Assembly (MNA), Chairperson of Pakistan's National Commission for Human Development, nominated for a collective Nobel Peace Prize under "1000 Women for Peace" category.
 * Simon Upton, formerly Minister of Health, Environment and Science and Technology and member of the National Party
 * Mike Woodin, former principal speaker for the Green Party of England and Wales (later Fellow of Balliol)

Business

 * Don Elder, New Zealand engineer and businessman, CEO of the New Zealand mining and energy company Solid Energy.

Fellows

 * Samson Abramsky, computer scientist and developer of domain theory in logic form, game semantics and categorical quantum mechanics
 * John Addis, former UK ambassador to Laos, the Philippines and China
 * Leonie Archer, historian and authority on women in Jewish antiquity
 * Isaiah Berlin, regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential liberal philosophers
 * Kanti Bajpai, Former Headmaster, The Doon School, India
 * John Barnes, developer of the Ada programming language
 * William Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw, Member of the House of Lords
 * Donald Broadbent, experimental psychologist
 * Sebastian Brock, expert in Syriac language
 * Amit Chaudhuri, novelist
 * David Dabydeen, Guyana's Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinaire to China, from 2010 to 2015
 * Simon Digby, oriental scholar
 * Anthony Epstein, discovered the Epstein-Barr virus
 * Robin Gandy, mathematician and logician
 * Raymond Hoffenberg, endocrinologist and medical scientist and prominent opponent of apartheid in South Africa
 * Tony Hoare, computer scientist, developer of Quicksort the widely used sorting algorithm
 * Dorothy Hodgkin, British Chemist and Nobel Prize winner
 * Avishai Margalit, philosopher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 * Roger Moorey, British archeologist and keeper of antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
 * Pat Nuttall, expert in tick-borne diseases
 * Gareth Roberts, physicist and influential figure in shaping British policy on the sciences
 * Sumit Sarkar, Indian historian, former Professor of history, Delhi University
 * Erich Wolf Segal, American author and screenwriter, wrote the screenplay for The Beatles' 1968 motion picture Yellow Submarine
 * Steven Schwartz, Vice Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia
 * Jon Stallworthy, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Oxford, UK
 * Bryan Sykes, world-renowned human geneticist
 * Niko Tinbergen, Dutch ethologist and Nobel prize winner
 * Géza Vermes, Hungarian Jewish historian of ancient Judaism and early Christianity, authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the historical Jesus

Presidents

 * Isaiah Berlin, 1967–1975
 * Henry Fisher, 1975–85
 * Raymond Hoffenberg, 1985–93
 * Jim Kennedy, (acting), 1993–1994
 * David Smith, 1994–2000
 * Jon Stallworthy, (acting), 2000
 * Gareth Roberts, 2000–2007
 * Jon Stallworthy, (acting), 2007–2008
 * Hermione Lee, 2008–2017
 * Philomen Probert, (acting), 2017–2018
 * Tim Hitchens, 2018–present