List of people from the University of Oxford in academic disciplines

This is a list of people from the University of Oxford in academic disciplines. Many were students at one (or more) of the colleges of the university, and others held fellowships at a college.

This list forms part of a series of lists of people associated with the University of Oxford; for other lists, please see the main article List of University of Oxford people.

Law
• Kenneth Beaumont Chairman International Civil Aviation Organization 1946–57 (President Legal Committee 1954–57)

• James J. Busuttil (Linacre) Director, University of London Postgraduate Laws Programme

• Simon Chesterman (Rhodes Scholarship) Vice-provost at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and dean of NUS Faculty of Law and NUS College

• Sarah Cleveland (Lincoln) Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights at Columbia Law School

• Malcolm Evans (academic lawyer) (Regent's Park) Principal, Regent's Park College

• Allan Leal (Rhodes Scholarship) former Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School

• Phoebe Okowa (Wadham) Member, International Law Commission

• Surya Subedi (Exeter) United Nations Special Rapporteur for human rights in Cambodia

Theology and the study of religions
• Marilyn McCord Adams (Christ Church)

• Henry Airay (St Edmund Hall and The Queen's)

• James Alison (Blackfriars) priest, Order of Preachers 1981-95

• Karen Armstrong (St Anne's)

• John Barton (Oriel) Oriel and Laing Professor, Canon Theologian Winchester Cathl, member of Gen Synod

• Gareth Bennett (New College)

• John Bowker (Worcester) Prof of RS Lancaster 1974-84, Trinity Coll Cambridge 1984-93, Gresham Prof of Divinity 1992-97

• George Granville Bradley (University) Headmaster of Marlborough College 1858-70, Dean of Westminster 1881-1902

• Reginald John Campbell (Christ Church) sometime minister of the City Temple

• Edward Cardwell (Brasenose)

• John Chapman (Christ Church) Abbot of Downside 1929-33

• William Robinson Clark (Hertford)

• William Cole (Corpus Christi)

• Kenneth Cracknell

• Herbert Danby (Keble and Christ Church)

• Douglas Davies

• Christopher Dawson (Trinity)

• John Day (Lady Margaret Hall)

• Gregory Dix (Merton and Keble)

• C. H. Dodd

• David L. Edwards (Magdalen and All Souls) Dean of Norwich 1978-83, Provost of Southwark 1983-94

• Robert Ellis (Regent's Park)

• Mark Elvins (Greyfriars)

• Austin Farrer (Balliol, St Edmund Hall, Trinity, and Keble)

• John Fell (Christ Church)

• Paul S. Fiddes (St Peter's and Regent's Park)

• Richard Fiddes

• Richard Finn (Corpus Christi)

• John Foxe (Brasenose and Magdalen)

• Richard Hurrell Froude (Oriel)

• Timothy Gorringe (St Edmund Hall and St John's) St Luke's Professor of Theological Studies University of Exeter 1998-

• Rose Graham (Somerville)

• Renn Dickson Hampden (Oriel, St Mary Hall, and Christ Church) bishop of Hereford 1847-68

• Daphne Hampson

• Tom Harpur

• James Hervey (Lincoln)

• George Hickes (St John's, Lincoln, Magdalen College, Magdalen Hall) dean of Worcester 1683-88, bp of Thetford 1694

• Carole Hillenbrand (Somerville)

• Leonard Hodgson (Hertford, St Edmund Hall, Magdalen, Christ Church) Regius Professor of Divinity 1944-1958

• Humphrey Hody (Wadham)

• Henry Scott Holland (Christ Church)

• S. H. Hooke (Jesus)

• Richard Hooker (Corpus Christi)

• Lawrence Humphrey (Magdalen)

• William Ince (Lincoln, Exeter, Christ Church)

• E. O. James (Exeter)

• David Jasper (St Stephen's House)

• Jerome of Prague

• Jeffrey John (Hertford, St Stephen's, Brasenose, Magdalen) Dean of St Albans 2003-

• John Keble (Corpus Christi, Oriel)

• Fergus Kerr (Blackfriars)

• Andrew Linzey (Blackfriars)

• John Lowe (Christ Church)

• Diarmaid MacCulloch (St Cross)

• John Macquarrie (Christ Church)

• Herbert McCabe (Blackfriars)

• Alister McGrath (Merton, Wycliffe Hall, and Harris Manchester)

• Adam Marsh (Greyfriars)

• Geoffrey of Monmouth

• Max Müller (Christ Church and All Souls)

• Oliver O'Donovan (Christ Church and Wycliffe Hall)

• J. I. Packer (Corpus Christi and Wycliffe Hall)

• Peter Payne (St Edmund Hall)

• Robert Payne Smith (Christ Church) Dean of Canterbury 1871-95

• Arthur Peacocke (Exeter, St Peter's and Christ Church)

• Edward Pusey (Christ Church)

• Timothy Radcliffe (Blackfriars)

• William Salesbury

• Jane Shaw (Regent's Park and New College)

• Richard Smyth (Merton, Christ Church, and St Alban Hall)

• Janet Soskice (Somerville)

• Vincent Strudwick (Kellogg)

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• Iain Torrance (Oriel) Moderator Gen Assembly Church of Scotland 2003-4, Pres Princeton Theological Seminary 2004-

• John Trevisa (The Queen's)

• William Tyndale (Hertford)

• Richard Ullerston (The Queen's)

• Peter Martyr Vermigli (Regius Professor of Divinity)

• Henry Wace (Brasenose)

• William Wall (The Queen's)

• Henry Wansbrough (St Benet's) Pontifical Biblical Commission 1996-, Prior of Norwich 2004-

• Keith Ward (Linacre and Christ Church)

• William George Ward (Christ Church and Lincoln)

• H. Wheeler Robinson (Mansfield and Regent's Park)

• Vernon White (Oriel and Wycliffe Hall)

• Maurice Wiles (Christ Church)

• William of Alnwick

• William of Ware

• John Williams (Jesus)

• John Wyclif (Balliol)

• Robert Charles Zaehner (Christ Church)

Historians
• Harold Acton (Christ Church)

• Anne Applebaum (St Antony's)

• Timothy Garton Ash (Exeter and St Antony's)

• Richard J. C. Atkinson (Magdalen)

• Geoffrey Barraclough (All Souls)

• Max Beloff, Baron Beloff (Corpus Christi, Nuffield, All Souls, and St Antony's)

• Mary Bennett (Somerville and St Hilda's)

• Robert Blake, Baron Blake (Christ Church)

• Brian Bond (Worcester)

• Daniel J. Boorstin (Balliol)

• Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (Nuffield and Worcester)

• Archie Brown (St Antony's)

• Alan Bullock, Lord Bullock of Leafield (New College and St Catherine's)

• Colin Bundy (Merton, St Antony's, Kellogg, and Green)

• Montagu Burrows (All Souls)

• Muriel St. Clare Byrne (Somerville)

• Richard Carew (Christ Church)

• Humphrey Carpenter (Keble)

• Sir Raymond Carr (Christ Church, New College, All Souls and St Antony's)

• Allan Chapman (Wadham)

• George Clark (Balliol, All Souls, and Oriel)

• Alwyn Collinson

• Robert Conquest (Magdalen)

• Gordon A. Craig (Balliol)

• Mandell Creighton (Merton)

• Vincent Cronin (Trinity)

• Robert Darnton

• Catherine Glyn Davies (Somerville)

• Sir Rees Davies (All Souls)

• H. W. C. Davis (Balliol, All Souls, New Coll, Oriel) Ed DNB 1919-28, Prof History Manchester 1921-25, Oxford 1925-28

• R. H. C. Davis (Balliol and Merton) Prof of Medieval History Birmingham University 1970-84

• William Deakin (Christ Church)

• Christopher de Hamel Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, his book Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts won the Duff Cooper Prize for 2016 and the Wolfson History Prize for 2017

• Michael Duffy

• John Elliott (Oriel)

• Robert Ensor (Balliol and Corpus Christi)

• Richard J. Evans (Jesus and St Antony's) Regius Professor of Modern History and Chairman of the Faculty of History in the University of Cambridge

• Robert Evans (Oriel)

• Cyril Falls (All Souls)

• Keith Feiling (Balliol, Christ Church, and All Souls)

• Niall Ferguson (Magdalen)

• Charles Harding Firth (Balliol, Pembroke, and All Souls)

• Herbert Fisher (New College) Member of Parliament 1916-26

• Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Somerville)

• Eric Foner (Oriel)

• Amanda Foreman (Lady Margaret Hall)

• Lady Antonia Fraser (Lady Margaret Hall)

• Sir Lawrence Freedman (Nuffield)

• Edward Augustus Freeman (Trinity)

• James Anthony Froude (Oriel and Exeter)

• Thomas Gaisford (Christ Church)

• Henry de Beltgens Gibbins (Wadham)

• N. H. Gibbs (Magdalen, Merton, and All Souls)

• Robert Gildea

• Lawrence Goldman (St Peter's) Editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004-

• Rose Graham (Somerville)

• Bernard Green (St Benet's)

• Alice Greenwood (Somerville)

• John Habakkuk (All Souls and Jesus)

• Irfan Habib (New College)

• Keith Hancock (Balliol and All Souls)

• Clarence H. Haring (New)

• John Hattendorf (Pembroke and St Antony’s)

• Agnes Headlam-Morley (Somerville)

• Peter Heather (New College and Worcester)

• Peter Heylin (St John's)

• Christopher Hibbert (Oriel)

• Christopher Hill (Balliol)

• Carole Hillenbrand (Somerville)

• George Holmes (All Souls)

• Albert Hourani (Magdalen and St Antony's)

• Michael Howard (Christ Church, Oriel, and All Souls)

• Clay S. Jenkinson (University)

• Henry Kamen

• Roderick Kedward (St Antony's)

• Elspeth Kennedy (Somerville and St Hilda's)

• Paul Kennedy (St Antony's)

• Walid Khalidi

• Christoph M. Kimmich

• Alan Kreider (Regent's Park)

• John La Nauze

• John Landers (Hertford and All Souls)

• Paul Langford (Hertford and Lincoln)

• Frances Lannon (Lady Margaret Hall)

• Peter L'Estrange (Campion Hall)

• Barbara Levick (St Hugh's and St Hilda's)

• M. D. R. Leys (Somerville)

• Suzannah Lipscomb (Lincoln and Balliol)

• Colin Lucas (Lincoln)

• Roderick MacFarquhar (Keble) Member of Parliament 1974-79

• Piers Mackesy (Oriel, Christ Church, and Pembroke)

• Margaret MacMillan (St. Antony's)

• Julia de Lacy Mann (Somerville)

• Margaret Mann Phillips (Somerville)

• Robert K. Massie

• John Masterman (Worcester and Christ Church)

• Henry Mayr-Harting (Merton, St Peter's, and Christ Church)

• Mark Mazower

• Josef W. Meri (Wolfson)

• Henry Hart Milman (Brasenose) Dean of St Paul's 1849-68

• Leslie Mitchell (University)

• Mary Caroline Moorman (Somerville)

• W. L. Morton

• Avner Offer (Nuffield and All Souls)

• Charles Oman (New College and All Souls)

• Robert O'Neill (All Souls)

• Ilan Pappe (St Antony's)

• H. R. S. Pocock (Pembroke)

• Frederick York Powell (Christ Church and Oriel)

• Maurice Powicke (Balliol)

• Gerald Reitlinger (Christ Church)

• Jane Robinson (Somerville)

• N.A.M. Rodger (University)

• Emma Georgina Rothschild (Somerville)

• A. L. Rowse (Christ Church, Oriel, and All Souls)

• Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell (Merton)

• James R. Russell

• Dominic Sandbrook (Balliol)

• Frank Schulman

• Paul Slack (Exeter and Linacre)

• Frederick Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead (Christ Church)

• Goldwin Smith (Magdalen and University)

• R. W. Southern (All Souls)

• Hew Strachan (All Souls)

• William Stubbs (Christ Church, Trinity, and Oriel) bishop of Chester 1884-89, bishop of Oxford 1889-1901

• Ernest Swinton (All Souls)

• Oliver Taplin (Magdalen)

• R. H. Tawney (Balliol) president of the Workers Educational Association 1928–44

• A. J. P. Taylor (Oriel)

• Keith Thomas (Balliol, All Souls, St John's, and Corpus Christi)

• Martin Thomas

• Elizabeth Topham Kennan

• Arnold J. Toynbee (Balliol)

• Rick Trainor (Merton)

• Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (Christ Church)

• Ann Trindade (Lady Margaret Hall)

• Kenneth Turpin (Oriel)

• J. M. Wallace-Hadrill (All Souls)

• Veronica Wedgwood (Lady Margaret Hall)

• Geoffrey Wheatcroft (New College)

• Christopher Wickham (All Souls)

• Spenser Wilkinson (All Souls)

• Kate Williams (Somerville)

• A. N. Wilson (New College and St Stephen's House)

• Mary Woodall (Somerville)

• Lucy Worsley (New College)

Classicists, Byzantinists and archaeologists
• J. L. Ackrill (St. John's)

• Michael Angold

• Polymnia Athanassiadi (Somerville)

• Charles Badham (Wadham)

• Richard Bentley (Wadham)

• John Boardman (Lincoln)

• William Borlase (Exeter)

• Glen Bowersock (Balliol) Professor of Classics and History Harvard University 1969-80, Professor of Ancient History Institute for Advanced Study 1980-2006

• Angus Bowie (Queen's)

• Maurice Bowra (New College and Wadham)

• Peter Brown (New College and All Soul's)

• P. A. Brunt (Oriel and Brasenose)

• William Camden (Magdalen, Christ Church, and the former Broadgates Hall)

• Averil Cameron (Somerville)

• Henry Chadwick (Christ Church)

• Dorothy Charlesworth (Somerville)

• Gillian Clark (Somerville)

• Alison E. Cooley (St. John's)

• Barbara Craig (Somerville)

• G. E. M. de Ste Croix (New College)

• A. M. Dale (Somerville)

• James Davidson

• Kenneth Dover (Balliol)

• Robinson Ellis (Balliol and Trinity)

• Elaine Fantham (Somerville)

• Jill Harries (Somerville)

• W. H. C. Frend (Keble)

• Helen Hughes-Brock (Somerville)

• Sarah C. Humphreys (Somerville)

• Edward Gibbon (Magdalen) Member of Parliament 1774-83

• Jasper Griffin (Balliol)

• Miriam T. Griffin (Somerville)

• Francis J. Haverfield

• Philip Hardie (Corpus Christi)

• Stephen Harrison (Balliol)

• Simon Hornblower (Oriel) Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History University College London

• Joan M. Hussey (St Hugh's)

• Benjamin Jowett (Balliol)

• Kathleen Kenyon (Somerville)

• Donna Carol Kurtz (Somerville)

• Francis Leddy (Exeter)

• Irene Lemos (Somerville)

• David Malcolm Lewis (Christ Church)

• Henry Liddell (Christ Church)

• Martin Litchfield West (St John's, University, and All Souls)

• William Walter Merry (Balliol)

• Fergus Millar (Brasenose)

• Margaret C. Miller

• Teresa Morgan (Oriel)

• Gilbert Murray (Christ Church)

• John Julius Norwich (John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich)

• Dimitri Obolensky (formerly Prince Dmitriy Dmitrievich Obolensky) (Christ Church)

• William Mitchell Ramsay (St John's, Exeter, and Lincoln)

• Joyce Reynolds (Somerville)

• P.J. Rhodes (Wadham)

• Nicholas Richardson (Magdalen, Pembroke, Trinity, Merton, and Greyfriars)

• Christina Riggs (Somerville)

• Katherine Routledge (Somerville)

• Erich Segal (Wolfson)

• William Young Sellar (Balliol and Oriel)

• R. R. R. Smith (Lincoln)

• John Sparrow (New College and All Souls)

• William Archibald Spooner (New College)

• Simon Swain (Pembroke, Wolfson)

• Ronald Syme (Oriel, Trinity, Brasenose, and Wolfson)

• Margerie Venables Taylor (Somerville)

• Emily Vermeule (St Agnes)

• J.B. Ward-Perkins (New College)

• Ute Wartenberg

• Katharine Woolley (Somerville)

• Maria Wyke (Somerville)

Modern languages
• Carmen Blacker (Somerville)

• Malcolm Bowie (All Souls)

• George Alfred Kolkhorst (Exeter)

• Joycelynne Loncke (Somerville)

• Malcolm Pasley (Trinity, The Queen's, and Magdalen)

• Rebecca Posner (Somerville)

• T. J. Reed (The Queen's)

• Graham Robb (Exeter)

• Mark Southern (Balliol)

• Enid Starkie (Somerville)

• Joan Turville-Petre (Somerville)

• Ghil'ad Zuckermann (St Hugh's)

Philosophers
• Theodor Adorno (Merton)

• Virgil Aldrich

• Archibald Alison (Balliol)

• Nayef Al-Rodhan (St Antony's)

• Pamela Sue Anderson (Mansfield and Regent's Park)

• G. E. M. Anscombe (St Hugh's)

• Robin Attfield (Christ Church and Regent's Park)

• J. L. Austin (Balliol)

• Anita Avramides (Somerville and St Hilda's)

• Alfred Ayer (Christ Church)

• Roger Bacon (Greyriars)

• Gordon Baker (The Queen's, St John's)

• Jeremy Bentham (The Queen's)

• Isaiah Berlin (Corpus Christi and All Souls)

• Roy Bhaskar (Balliol)

• Brand Blanshard

• Elisabeth Blochmann (Lady Margaret Hall)

• Susanne Bobzien (Somerville, Balliol, The Queen's, and All Souls)

• Thomas Browne (Pembroke)

• John Campbell (Christ Church)

• Quassim Cassam (Keble)

• David Chalmers (Lincoln)

• Gerald Cohen (All Souls)

• R. G. Collingwood (Magdalen)

• Alice Crary (Regent's Park)

• Gregory Currie (St John's)

• Brian Davies (Blackfriars)

• Edward de Bono (Christ Church)

• Daniel Dennett (Hertford)

• John Theophilus Desaguliers (Christ Church and Hart Hall)

• Michael Dummett (Christ Church and All Souls)

• Dorothy Edgington (St Hilda's)

• Gareth Evans (University)

• Antony Flew (St John's)

• Luciano Floridi (St Cross)

• Philippa Foot (Somerville)

• Peter Geach (Balliol)

• Celia Green (Somerville)

• Paul Grice (Corpus Christi)

• Robert Grosseteste (Greyfriars) Bishop of Lincoln 1235-53

• Þorsteinn Gylfason (Magdalen)

• Susan Haack

• Peter Hacker (The Queen's, St Antony's, Balliol, and St John's)

• Stuart Hampshire (Balliol)

• R. M. Hare (Balliol and Corpus Christi)

• Thomas Hobbes (Hertford)

• C. E. M. Joad (Balliol)

• Anthony Kenny (St Benet's, Balliol, St John's)

• Brian Klug (St Benet's)

• Martha Kneale (Somerville)

• Leszek Kołakowski (All Souls)

• Stephen Law (Trinity and The Queen's)

• David Lewis

• Genevieve Lloyd (Somerville)

• John Locke (Christ Church)

• John Lucas (Balliol, Merton)

• Henry Longueville Mansel (St John's and Magdalen) Dean of St Paul's 1868-71

• Colin McGinn (Jesus)

• Mary Midgely (Somerville)

• Michele Moody-Adams (Somerville)

• Max More (Max T. O'Connor) (St Anne's)

• Thomas Nagel (Corpus Christi)

• Kathleen Nott (Somerville)

• Sari Nusseibeh (Christ Church) President of Al-Quds University

• Hilda D. Oakeley (Somerville)

• Michael Oakeshott (Nuffield)

• William of Ockham (Merton)

• Onora O'Neill (Somerville)

• Derek Parfit (Balliol and All Souls)

• Christopher Peacocke (Exeter, The Queen's, All Souls, New College, and Magdalen)

• David Pearce (Brasenose)

• Alexander Piatigorsky

• Jonathan Rée

• Daniel N. Robinson

• W. D. Ross (Balliol and Oriel)

• Alan Ryan (Balliol and New College)

• Gilbert Ryle (Christ Church)

• Julian Savulescu (St Cross)

• John Duns Scotus

• John Rogers Searle (Christ Church)

• Peter Singer (University)

• Aaron Sloman (Balliol and St Antony's)

• Tom Sorell (Balliol)

• Galen Strawson

• Peter Strawson (St John's, University, and Magdalen)

• Ralph Strode (Merton)

• Charles Taylor (Balliol and All Souls)

• Geoffrey Warnock (Hertford)

• Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock (Lady Margaret Hall and St Hugh's)

• Ronald Lampman Watts (Oriel) Principal of Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) 1974–84

• Kathy Wilkes (St Hilda's)

• Bernard Williams (Balliol and All Souls)

• Kwasi Wiredu (University)

Economists
• William Ashley (Balliol and Lincoln)

• Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh (Balliol)

• Marian Bell (Hertford)

• David Bensusan-Butt (Nuffield)

• William Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge (Balliol)

• Shahid Javed Burki (Christ Church)

• Frances Cairncross (St Anne's and Exeter)

• Anusha Chari (Balliol)

• G. D. H. Cole (Balliol and University)

• Howard Davies (Merton) Director LSE, formerly Chmn FSA, Dep Gov Bank of England, DG CBI, Controller Audit Commn

• Andrew Dilnot (St John's)

• Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (Balliol)

• Amelia Fletcher

• Andrew Graham (Balliol)

• Roy Harrod (Christ Church)

• John Hicks (Balliol)

• Ursula Kathleen Hicks (Somerville)

• John A. Hobson (Lincoln)

• Harry Hodson (Balliol and All Souls)

• Caroline Hoxby (Magdalen)

• Mary Kaldor (Somerville)

• Lawrence Klein (Lincoln)

• Paul Krugman

• James Meade (Oriel)

• John Williams Mellor

• James Mirrlees (Nuffield)

• Abul Maal Abdul Muhith

• Gunnar Myrdal (Balliol)

• Stephen Nickell (Nuffield) Professor Economics LSE 1998-2006, Member Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee 2000-06

• Paul Ormerod (St Catherine's)

• Utsa Patnaik (Somerville)

• James Robertson (Balliol)

• Walt Whitman Rostow (Balliol)

• Ernst Schumacher

• Amartya Sen (Nuffield and All Souls)

• Faiza Shaheen (St John's)

• Adam Smith (Balliol) known as The Father of Economics or The Father of Capitalism

• Alasdair Smith

• Robert Solow (Balliol)

• Michael Spence (Magdalen)

• Frances Stewart (Somerville)

• Joseph E. Stiglitz (All Souls and St Catherine's)

• Fabian Tassano (New College)

• Lester Thurow (Balliol)

• Barbara Ward (Somerville)

• Richard Werner

• Alison Wolf (Somerville)

• Stefano Zamagni

Geography

 * Denis Cosgrove (St Catherine's)
 * Andrew Goudie (Hertford and St Cross)
 * Emily Georgiana Kemp (Somerville)
 * Janelle Knox-Hayes (Green Templeton)
 * Diana Liverman (Linacre)
 * Halford John Mackinder (Christ Church) Director LSE 1903–08, Member of Parliament 1910–22
 * Nick Middleton (St Anne's)
 * Ann Varley

Anthropology and ethnography
• Madawi Al-Rasheed (Nuffield)

• Edwin Ardener (St. John's)

• Marius Barbeau (Oriel)

• Brenda Beck (Somerville)

• Beatrice Blackwood (Somerville)

• Maria Czaplicka (Somerville)

• John Davis (University and All Souls)

• Alex de Waal (Nuffield)

• E. E. Evans-Pritchard (Exeter and All Souls)

• Ernest Gellner (Balliol)

• Max Gluckman (Exeter)

• Stuart Hall (Merton)

• Earnest Hooton

• E. O. James (Exeter)

• Schuyler Jones

• Hugh Kawharu (Exeter)

• Robert Ranulph Marett (Exeter)

• James Cowles Prichard (St John's and Trinity)

• Vernon Reynolds (Magdalen)

• Katherine Routledge (Somerville)

• Walter Baldwin Spencer (Exeter and Lincoln)

• Colin Turnbull (Magdalen)

• Mai Yamani (Somerville)

Sociology
• Reem Bassiouney (Somerville)

• John Goldthorpe (Nuffield)

• M. N. Srinivas (All Souls)

• Steven Lukes (Balliol, Nuffield, and Worcester)

• Gordon Marshall (Nuffield) V-C University of Reading, formerly Chief Exec Economic & Social Research Council

• Ted Nelson (Wadham)

• Ann Oakley (Somerville)

• Sheila Rowbotham (St Hilda's)

• Bryan Wilson (All Souls)

Politics, political philosophy, and international relations
• Alyson Bailes (Somerville)

• Mark Bevir

• Christopher Brewin (St John's and Christ Church)

• James Burnham (Balliol)

• Alex Callinicos (Balliol)

• Gerald Cohen (All Souls)

• James Corry Principal of Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) 1961-68

• Deborah Coyne (Wadham) international relations and law, contributed to Meech Lake Accords

• David Dilks (Hertford, St Antony's, and All Souls) Vice Chancellor of the University of Hull 1991–99

• Samuel Finer (Trinity and Balliol)

• Rosemary Foot (St. Antony's) Professor of International Relations, and John Swire Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Univ

• Bruce Gilley

• Matt Golder Professor at Pennsylvania State University

• Sir Lawrence Freedman

• Nikolas Gvosdev (St Antony's)

• Fred Halliday (The Queen's)

• Ted Hodgetts Principal Victoria College Toronto 1967–69, President Victoria University 1970–72

• Raghavan N. Iyer (Magdalen, Nuffield, and St Antony's)

• Robert Lieber (St Antony's) Professor, Department of Government and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

• Baisali Mohanty (Wolfson)

• Moses Morgan President of Memorial University of Newfoundland 1973–81

• Thomas Nossiter (Exeter and Nuffield) Professor of Government LSE 1989–94

• Joseph Nye (Exeter)

• Masako Owada (Balliol)

• Rafał Pankowski (born 1976), Polish sociologist and political scientist

• Robert D. Putnam (Balliol)

• Michael Sandel (Balliol) Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University

• Emma Sky (Somerville)

• Anne-Marie Slaughter (Worcester) Dean Woodrow Wilson Sch of Public & International Affairs Princeton Univ

• Jeremy Waldron (All Souls)

• Helen Wallace, Baroness Wallace of Saltaire

• Graham Wallas (Corpus Christi)

• Shirley Williams (Somerville)

• Naomi Wolf (New College)

Asian studies
• Carmen Blacker (Somerville)

• Ian Buruma (St Antony's)

• David Hawkes (All Souls)

• James Legge (Corpus Christi)

• Jessica Rawson (Merton)

• William Edward Soothill

• Richard Carnac Temple

• Richard Olaf Winstedt (New College)

Mathematicians and statisticians
• John Macleod Ball

• Simon Bredon (Balliol and Merton)

• Lewis Carroll (Christ Church)

• Mary Cartwright (St Hugh's)

• Kathryn Chaloner (Somerville)

• Anne Cobbe (Somerville)

• Alison Etheridge

• Leslie Fox (Christ Church and Balliol)

• W.S. Gosset (New College)

• Brian Greene

• Edmund Gunter (Christ Church)

• G.H. Hardy (Savilian Chair of Geometry)

• Stephen Hawking (University)

• Peter Hilton (The Queen's) Professor Univ of Birmingham, Cornell Univ, Case Western Reserve Univ, Binghamton Univ, and Univ of Central Florida

• Nigel Hitchin (Jesus, Wolfson, and New College)

• Ioan James (The Queen's and New College)

• Frances Kirwan (Magdalen and Balliol)

• Ruth Lawrence (St Hugh's)

• John Lennox

• Holbrook Mann MacNeille (Balliol)

• Claus Moser, Baron Moser (Nuffield and Wadham)

• Kathleen Ollerenshaw (Somerville)

• Roger Penrose

• Marcus du Sautoy (All Souls and Wadham)

• Caroline Series (Somerville)

• Bernard Silverman (University and St Peter's)

• Henry John Stephen Smith (Balliol)

• G. Spencer-Brown (Christ Church)

• Martin J. Taylor (Pembroke) Professor Pure Mathematics UMIST 1986-2004, Manchester 2004-, Pres London Mathematical Soc 1998-2000, Vice-Pres Royal Soc 2004-

• Richard Taylor (New College)

• Mary Wynne Warner (Somerville)

• J.H.C. Whitehead (Balliol and Magdalen)

• Andrew Wiles (Merton)

Naturalists, botanists, and zoologists
• Joseph Banks (Christ Church)

• Jonathan Borwein (Jesus)

• Sydney Brenner (Exeter)

• Lady Anne Brewis (Somerville)

• Francis Trevelyan Buckland

• William Buckland (Christ Church)

• Neil Chalmers (Magdalen and Wadham)

• Ian Chubb

• Richard Dawkins (Balliol)

• John Bretland Farmer (Magdalen)

• E. B. Ford (Wadham)

• Jeremy Greenwood (St Catherine's)

• J. B. S. Haldane (New College)

• W. D. Hamilton (New College)

• Alister Hardy (Exeter, Merton, and Manchester)

• Ian Hepburn

• John Kidd (Christ Church)

• Linda King

• John Krebs (Pembroke and Jesus)

• Ray Lankester (Christ Church)

• Amory Lovins (Magdalen and Merton)

• Anne McLaren (Lady Margaret Hall)

• Gavin Maxwell (Hertford)

• Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (Merton)

• Peter Medawar (Magdalen)

• Desmond Morris (Magdalen)

• Robert Plot (Magdalen Hall)

• Edward Bagnall Poulton (Jesus)

• David Quammen (Merton)

• Matthew Ridley (Magdalen)

• Charles Sherrington (Magdalen)

• Richard Southwood (Merton)

• Nikolaas Tinbergen (Merton)

• Sunil Kumar Verma (Green)

• Kathy Willis (Merton)

Medicine
• Donald Acheson (Brasenose and University) Chief Medical Officer 1983–1991

• Henry Wentworth Acland (Christ Church and All Souls)

• Colin Baigent

• Josephine Barnes (Lady Margaret Hall)

• George Wells Beadle (Balliol)

• Claude Bertrand

• Baruch Samuel Blumberg (Balliol)

• Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain

• Christopher Bulstrode (Green Templeton)

• Robert Burton (Brasenose)

• Sheila Cassidy (Somerville)

• Ernst Chain (University)

• Alan Clemetson

• Augusto Claudio Cuello Professor and Charles E. Frosst/Merck Chair in Pharmacology & Therapeutics, McGill University

• Richard Doll (Christ Church)

• John Carew Eccles (Magdalen)

• J. R. Evans President, University of Toronto, 1972–78, Director Population, Health, & Nutrition, World Bank, 1979–83

• William Feindel (Merton)

• Howard Florey (Lincoln, The Queen's, and Magdalen)

• John Freind (Christ Church)

• Innocent Gangaidzo

• Archibald Garrod (Christ Church)

• Atul Gawande (Balliol)

• Ragnar Granit

• Bongani Mayosi (Wolfson)

• Roy Meadow (Worcester)

• Richard Morton (Magdalen Hall)

• David Naylor (Hertford) President, University of Toronto, 2005–

• Paul Nurse (Linacre)

• Severo Ochoa

• William Osler (Christ Church)

• Wilder Penfield

• Thomas Phaer sometime Member of Parliament for Cardigan

• Rodney Porter (Trinity)

• John Radcliffe (University)

• Oliver Sacks (The Queen's)

• Cicely Saunders (St Anne's)

• Charles Singer (Magdalen)

• Oliver Smithies (Balliol)

• Elsdon Storey

• Thomas Stuttaford (Brasenose) The Times medical expert, Member of Parliament, 1970–74

• Robert Twycross

• John Robert Vane (St Catherine's)

• Arthur Vidrine

• Diana Walford (Mansfield)

• Thomas Willis (Christ Church)

• Srinivas Gada (Hon Senior Lecturer)

Psychologists, psychiatrists, and physiologists of the brain
• Simon Baron-Cohen (New College)

• Stephen J. Bergman (Samuel Shem) (Balliol)

• G. E. Berrios (Corpus Christi)

• Wilfred Bion (The Queen's)

• Nick Bouras

• Chris Brand (The Queen's and Nuffield)

• Donald Broadbent (Wolfson)

• Fiona Caldicott (St Hilda's and Somerville)

• Gordon Claridge (Magdalen)

• Hervey M. Cleckley

• Adrian Furnham (Pembroke)

• Jeffrey Alan Gray (Magdalen)

• Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield (St Hilda's and Lincoln)

• Miles Hewstone (New College)

• Charles McCreery (New College and Magdalen)

• Edward Thomas Monro (Oriel)

• Henry Monro (Oriel)

• James Monro (Balliol)

• John Monro (St John's and University)

• Thomas Monro (Oriel)

• Shirley Pearce (St Anne's)

• Adrian Raine

• Edmund Rolls (Corpus Christi)

• Stuart Sutherland (Magdalen)

• Lawrence Weiskrantz (Magdalen)

• Simon Wessely (University)

Chemists
• Mary Archer, Baroness Archer of Weston-super-Mare (St Anne's)

• Peter Atkins (Lincoln)

• Anne Beloff-Chain

• Robert Boyle (University)

• Humphry Bowen (Magdalen)

• E. J. Bowen (Balliol)

• David Clary (St John's and Magdalen)

• John Cornforth (St Catherine's)

• Charles Daubeny (Magdalen)

• Roger Gaudry Rector, Université de Montréal, 1965–75

• Véronique Gouverneur

• Nicole Grobert

• Malcolm Kelland, professor of chemistry at University of Stavanger

• Dalziel Hammick (Magdalen)

• Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (Balliol)

• Dorothy Hodgkin (Somerville)

• Frederick L. Hovde

• Abdus Suttar Khan (St. Catherine's)

• Jeremy Knowles (Balliol and Wadham)

• Ilya Kuprov (Corpus Christi and Magdalen)

• Jack Linnett (The Queen's)

• Michael Mingos (Keble and St Edmund Hall)

• Robert Mulliken (St John's)

• Linus Pauling (Balliol)

• Rex Richards (Lincoln, Exeter, and Merton)

• Robert Robinson (Magdalen)

• Francis Simon (Christ Church)

• James Smithson (Pembroke)

• Frederick Soddy (Merton)

• Alexander Todd (Oriel)

• John E. Walker (St Catherine's)

• Michael Stanley Whittingham

• Ahmed Zewail (St Catherine's)

• Michael Barber (chemist) (The Queen's)

Astronomers Royal

 * Edmund Halley (The Queen's) 1720–42
 * James Bradley (Balliol) 1742–62
 * Nathaniel Bliss (Pembroke) 1762-64
 * Martin Ryle (Christ Church) 1972–82

Other physicists and astronomers
• John D. Barrow

• Roger Cashmore (Balliol, University, Christ Church, Merton, and Brasenose)

• Albert Einstein (Christ Church)

• Brian Greene

• Stephen Hawking (University)

• Robert Hooke (Christ Church)

• Edwin Hubble (The Queen's)

• Leonard Huxley

• Willis Lamb

• Anthony Leggett

• Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (Christ Church)

• John Maddox (Christ Church)

• Brian G. Marsden (New College)

• Roger Penrose

• Stephen Quake (PhD 1994)

• Norman Ramsey (Balliol)

• Erwin Schrödinger (Magdalen)

• Dennis Sciama

• John Hasbrouck van Vleck (Balliol)

• Klaus von Klitzing

• John Clive Ward

• Denys Wilkinson (Christ Church)

• Richard Wilson (Christ Church)

• Stephen Wolfram (St John's)

Computers, electronics, and robotics
• Samson Abramsky (Wolfson)

• Tim Berners-Lee (The Queen's)

• Richard Bird (Lincoln)

• Jonathan Bowen (University)

• Edgar F. Codd (Exeter)

• David Gavaghan (New College)

• Joseph Goguen (St Anne's)

• Ralph Hartley

• C. A. R. Hoare (Merton)

• Cliff Jones

• Hermann Moisl

• Peter Mosses (Trinity and Wolfson)

• Peter Braam (Merton College and St Catherine's )

• Mike Reed (St Edmund Hall)

• Bill Roscoe (University)

• Martin Smith (St John's)

• Michael Spivey (Oriel)

• Joe Stoy (Balliol)

• Christopher Strachey

• David Turner

• Robert J. Van de Graaff

• Jim Woodcock (Kellogg)

Engineering and agriculture
• Roger Ainsworth (Jesus and St Catherine's)

• William Froude (Oriel)

• E. Peter Raynes (St Cross)

• Lionel Tarassenko (Keble and St John's)

• Jethro Tull (St John's)

• Kevin Warwick (Somerville)

• Martin Wood (Christ Church)

• Ben Britton (St Catherine's)

• Matilda Simon, 3rd Baroness Simon of Wythenshawe (Balliol)

Geology
• William Joscelyn Arkell (New College)

• U. Aswathanarayana

• Donald Ferlys Wilson Baden-Powell (Oriel)

• Malcolm Brown (St Cross)

• Colin Campbell (Wadham)

• Keith Cox (The Queen's and Jesus)

• Moira Dunbar (St Anne's)

• Charles Lyell (Exeter)

• Hugh Edwin Strickland (Oriel)

• Lawrence Wager

Meteorology

 * Joanna Haigh (Somerville)
 * Patrick McTaggart-Cowan (Corpus Christi)