List of Rhodes Scholars
This is a list of Rhodes Scholars, covering notable people who are Rhodes Scholarship recipients, sorted by year and surname. Key to the columns in the main table:

List of Rhodes Scholars

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Table Section Text: This is a list of Rhodes Scholars, covering notable people who are Rhodes Scholarship recipients, sorted by year and surname. Key to the columns in the main table:

Name	University	Oxford College	Year	Notability

William Miller Macmillan	Stellenbosch	Merton	1903	Historian of South Africa and critic of colonial rule in Africa and the West Indies

John Behan	Melbourne	Hertford	1904	Lawyer and academic (University and Trinity Colleges)

Norman Jolly	Adelaide	Balliol	1904	Forester who played First-class cricket for Worcestershire

John J. Tigert	Vanderbilt	Pembroke	1904	U.S. Commissioner of Education (1921–1928), president of the University of Florida (1928–1947)

Philip Robertson	Victoria (NZ)	Trinity	1905	New Zealand chemist, university professor and writer

Roy Robinson	Adelaide	Magdalen	1905	The first Baron Robinson, regarded as the chief architect of state forestry in Great Britain

Carl Brinkmann	Queen's	1904	German sociologist and economist

Warren Ault	Baker	Jesus	1907	Historian at Boston University 1913–1957; Huntington Professor of History

Clarence H. Haring	Harvard	New College	1907	American historian

Alain LeRoy Locke	Harvard	Hertford	1907	Philosopher, writer, educator and Harlem Renaissance patron

Neal Macrossan	Queensland	Magdalen	1907	Chief Justice of Queensland 1946–1955

Frank E. Holman	Utah	Exeter	1908	President of the American Bar Association (1948)

Lennox Broster	Rhodes	Trinity	1909	Consulting surgeon, Charing Cross Hospital

Henry Fry	Adelaide	Balliol	1909	Physician and anthropologist

Marius Barbeau	Laval	Oriel	1910	Canadian ethnographer and folklorist

Elmer Davis	Franklin	Queen's	1910	American newsman, director of the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II

Ralph Hartley	Utah	St John's	1910	Inventor of the Hartley oscillator; mathematician; winner of the IRE Medal of Honor (1946)

Jan Hofmeyr	Cape Town	Balliol	1910	Academic, public administrator, and South African liberal politician

Earnest Hooton	Lawrence	University	1910	American physical anthropologist

Edwin Hubble	Chicago	Queen's	1910	American astronomer

John Crowe Ransom	Vanderbilt	Christ Church	1910	Poet

Frank Aydelotte	Indiana	Brasenose	1911	President of Swarthmore College (1921–1940)

Cecil Madigan	Adelaide	Magdalen	1911	Explorer and geologist

Edmund Herring	Melbourne	New College	1912	Australian Army general, barrister, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria (1944–1964), Lieutenant Governor of Victoria (1945–1972)

Frido von Senger	St John's	1912	German general in World War II

Brand Blanshard	Michigan	Merton	1913	Philosopher

Henry Brose	Adelaide	Christ Church	1913	Physicist, academic, pathologist, biochemist

Frank Kerr	Melbourne	University	1913	Australian rules footballer, doctor and soldier

Charles R. Clason	Bates	Christ Church	1914	U.S. Congressman (Massachusetts) (1937–1949)

Wilfrid Kent Hughes	Christ Church	1914	Australian soldier, Olympian and Olympic Games organiser, author, and federal and state government minister

Norman Manley	Jamaica	Jesus	1914	Chief Minister of Jamaica 1955–1959, Premier of Jamaica 1959–1962

Wilder Penfield	Princeton	Merton	1914	Canadian neurosurgeon

Kenneth Bailey	Melbourne	1918	Solicitor-General of Australia; father of Peter Bailey (ρ 1949)

Fred Paterson	Queensland	Merton	1918	The only Australian Communist politician ever to win an election

John Monk Saunders	Washington	Magdalen	1918	Screenwriter of Wings and The Dawn Patrol

Roland Michener	Alberta	Hertford	1919	Governor General of Canada (1967–1974), lawyer, politician

George Estabrooks	Harvard	Exeter	1920	Psychology department head at Colgate University, authority on hypnosis during World War II

John Marshall Harlan II	Princeton	Balliol	1920	Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1955–1971)

Arthur Wesley Wheen	Sydney	New College	1920	Keeper of Victoria and Albert Museum

Howard Florey	Adelaide	Magdalen	1921	Australian pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1945 (for penicillin)

Keith Hancock	Melbourne	Balliol	1921	Historian, academic, biographer

Alan Watt	Sydney	Oriel	1921	Australian Ambassador to Singapore (1954), Japan (1956–1959) and Germany (1960–1962)

William Stevenson	Princeton	Balliol	1922	American Olympic gold medalist in 1924 (Paris), president of Oberlin College (1946–1961), U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines (1961–1965)

Leonard Huxley	Tasmania	New College	1923	Australian physicist

Arthur Porritt	Otago	Magdalen	1923	New Zealand physician, military surgeon, statesman, athlete, Governor-General of New Zealand (1967–1972)

Hervey M. Cleckley	Georgia	University	1924	Psychiatrist, pioneer in the field of psychopathy, co-author of The Three Faces of Eve

John Niemeyer Findlay	Pretoria	Balliol	1924	Philosopher, Gifford lecturer; Meinong, Hegel, Husserl and Wittgenstein scholar

John Eccles	Melbourne	Magdalen	1925	Australian neurophysiologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1963, for his work on the synapse

J. William Fulbright	Arkansas	Pembroke	1925	U.S. Senator for Arkansas (1945–1974), originator of the Fulbright Fellowship program

William Vaughn	Vanderbilt	Christ Church	1925	Chairman and CEO of Eastman Kodak

Robert J. Van de Graaff	Alabama	Queen's	1925	Physicist, academic (M.I.T. & Princeton), and inventor of the Van de Graaff generator

George Paton	Melbourne	Magdalen	1926	Vice chancellor University of Melbourne (1951–1968)

Wilfrid Kalaugher	Victoria (NZ)	Balliol	1927	New Zealand athlete, scholar and teacher

Allen Walker Read	Iowa	St Edmund	1928	American etymologist and lexicographer

Holbrook Mann MacNeille	Swarthmore	Balliol	1928	Mathematician, academic, scientific director Office of Scientific Research and Development

John Platts-Mills	Victoria (NZ)	Balliol	1928	New Zealand barrister, QC, British Labour Party politician

Robert Penn Warren	Vanderbilt	New College	1928	American poet and critic

Cleanth Brooks	Vanderbilt & Tulane	Exeter	1929	American literary critic

George F.G. Stanley	Alberta	Keble	1929	Canadian historian, designer of Canadian flag, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick (1981–1987)

Emory Lindquist	Bethany	Jesus	1930	Historian, president of Bethany College (Kansas) and Witchita State University

Charles Herbert Little	Toronto	Brasenose	1930	Director of Canadian Naval Intelligence during World War II

"Fritz" Schumacher	Bonn & Berlin	New College	1930	Economist, statistician, author, social theorist, public speaker

Carl Albert	Oklahoma	St Peter's	1931	Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives (1971–1977), U.S. Congressman (Oklahoma), 1947–1977

Bram Fischer	Bloemfontein	New College	1931	Anti-apartheid activist and lawyer

Ted Jolliffe	Toronto	Christ Church	1931	Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (1943–1945, 1948–1951)

Jack Lovelock	Otago	Exeter	1931	1500 metre Olympic gold medallist in 1936 Berlin Olympics

Brian Gilmore Maegraith	Adelaide	Magdalen & Exeter	1931	Professor of tropical medicine at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Dean Rusk	Davidson	St John's	1931	U.S. Secretary of State, 1961–1969

Adam von Trott zu Solz	Göttingen	Balliol	1931	German diplomat and anti-Nazi patriot, executed in 1944

James Munro Bertram	Auckland	New College	1932	New Zealand journalist, writer, relief worker, prisoner of war and university professor

Geoffrey Cox	Otago	Oriel	1932	Newspaper and television journalist (ITN) in Britain

John Mulgan	Auckland	Merton	1933	New Zealand writer, journalist and editor; author of novel Man Alone; in SOE in Greece in World War II

David Lewis	McGill	Lincoln	1932	Member of parliament and leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada (1971–1975)

W. L. Morton	Manitoba	St John's	1932	Canadian historian

Ivan A. Getting	M.I.T.	Merton	1933	American weapons scientist and co-inventor of GPS technology

Daniel J. Boorstin	Harvard	Balliol	1934	American historian and Librarian of Congress (1975–1987)

Max Gluckman	Transvaal	Exeter	1934	South African-British-Israeli social anthropologist

Wilbur Jackett	Saskatchewan	Queen's	1934	Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada (1971–1979)

George C. McGhee	SMU	Queen's	1934	U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (1952–1953) and to Germany (1963–1968)

John Templeton	Yale	Balliol	1934	Businessman and founder of Templeton College, Oxford

Arnold Smith	Ontario	Christ Church	1935	First Secretary-General of the Commonwealth

Walter H. Stockmayer	M.I.T.	Jesus	1935	American polymer chemist

Mervyn Austin	Melbourne	Christ Church	1936	Australian headmaster (Newington College) and professor of classics and ancient history (UWA)

Gordon A. Craig	Princeton	Balliol	1936	American historian and OSS veteran

Dan Davin	Otago	Balliol	1936	New Zealand novelist and head of Oxford University Press

George Ignatieff	Toronto	Trinity	1936	Russian-born Canadian diplomat, president of the UN Security Council (1968–69), father of Michael Ignatieff

Philip Mayer Kaiser	Wisconsin	Balliol	1936	U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania (1961–1964), Hungary (1977–1980), and Austria (1980–1981), ASL for International Affairs (1949–1953), Special Assistant to Governor Averell Harriman (1955–1959)

John B. Oakes	Princeton	Queen's	1936	New York Times editor of the editorial page, 1961–1976

Walt Whitman Rostow	Yale	Balliol	1936	Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (1966–1969), Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, 1961

Richard Luyt	Cape Town	Trinity	1937	Soldier, statesman and principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town

Howard K. Smith	Tulane	Merton	1937	Broadcast journalist

Byron White	Colorado	Hertford	1938	Football player, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1962–1993

Dom Mintoff	Malta	Hertford	1939	Prime Minister of Malta, 1955–1957 & 1971–1984

Jack Davis	British Columbia	St John's	1939	Canadian Minister of the Environment (1968–1974), B.C. Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources (1986–1991)

Ossie Newton-Thompson	Cape Town	Trinity	1940	Member of South African parliament and England rugby union international

Alan Stewart	Massey	University	1940	New Zealand educator and university administrator

Zelman Cowen	Melbourne	New College	1941	Australian jurist and academic, Governor General of Australia (1977–1982)

Edwin Busuttil	Christ Church	1942	Speaker of the Maltese House of Representatives

Jack Ridley	Canterbury	University	1946	New Zealand civil engineer and Member of Parliament

Paul J. Bohannan	Arizona	Queen's	1947	American social anthropologist

Alastair Gillespie	McGill	Queen's	1947	Canadian politician, cabinet minister

James Hester	Princeton	Pembroke	1947	First rector of the United Nations University, president of New York University

Nicholas Katzenbach	Princeton	Balliol	1947	U.S. Attorney General (1965–1966), U.S. Under-Secretary of State (1966–1969)

Robert Q. Marston	Virginia	Lincoln	1947	Director, National Institutes of Health (1968–1973), president of University of Florida (1974–1984)

Bernard W. Rogers	U.S. Military Academy	University	1947	American general, Supreme Allied Commander, NATO

Geoffrey Serle	Melbourne	University	1947	Australian academic, historian and biographer

William Jay Smith	Washington	Wadham	1947	United States Poet Laureate (1968–1970)

Stansfield Turner	U.S. Naval Academy	Exeter	1947	American admiral, Director of Central Intelligence (1977–1981)

Guy Davenport	Duke	Merton	1948	American writer and man of letters

Renfrey Potts	Adelaide	Queen's	1948	Applied mathematician, defined the Potts model

Eric Prabhakar	Madras	Christ Church	1948	Indian representative in the 1948 Olympic Games men's 100 metres

Elmer Sprague	Nebraska	St Edmund	1948	Professor emeritus of philosophy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Peter Bailey	Melbourne	1949	Public servant and academic; son of Kenneth Bailey (ρ 1918)

Robert Burchfield	Victoria (NZ)	Magdalen	1949	New Zealand lexicographer, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary

Peter Durack	Western Australia	Lincoln	1949	Australian politician, Commonwealth Attorney General, author

Gérard La Forest	New Brunswick	St John's	1949	Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada 1985–1997; CC, QC, FRSC

John Turner	British Columbia	Magdalen	1949	Liberal Party of Canada leader and Prime Minister of Canada, 1984

James H. Billington	Princeton	Balliol	1950	Academic, historian, Librarian of U.S. Congress, 1987–

John Brademas	Harvard	Brasenose	1950	U.S. Congressman (Indiana) 1959–1981, president of New York University 1981–1992

Tanjore R. Anantharaman	Madras	Trinity	1951	Indian metallurgist

Thomas A. Bartlett	Oregon	University	1951	President, American University in Cairo, 1963–1969, interim president 2002–2003; chancellor University of Alabama System, 1981–1989; chancellor State University of New York, 1994–1996

Richard N. Gardner	Harvard & Yale	Balliol	1951	U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1977–1981) and Spain (1993–1997), academic

Stuart Hall	Jamaica	Merton	1951	British cultural theorist

A. Walton Litz	Princeton	Merton	1951	Professor of English literature at Princeton (1956–1993), literary historian and critic, author, editor

John Winthrop Sears	Harvard	Balliol	1951	Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1965–1968), Sheriff of Suffolk County, Massachusetts (1968–1969), Boston City Councilor (1980–1981), candidate for Governor of Massachusetts (1982)

John Stone	Western Australia	1951	Secretary to the Australian Treasury 1979–1984, Senator for Queensland 1987–1990

James Gobbo	Melbourne	Magdalen	1952	Victorian Supreme Court Judge and Governor of Victoria

John Searle	Wisconsin	Christ Church	1952	American philosopher

Charles Taylor	McGill	Balliol	1952	Philosopher, winner of the Kyoto and Templeton prizes

Hugh Templeton	Otago	Balliol	1952	New Zealand diplomat, politician and member of parliament

Jean Beetz	Université de Montréal Faculty of Law	Pembroke	1953	Puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada

Guido Calabresi	Yale	Magdalen	1953	American legal academic, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, professor and dean at Yale Law School

Ronald Dworkin	Harvard	Magdalen	1953	American legal philosopher, academic

Edward de Bono	Malta	Christ Church	1953	Maltese writer, psychologist, author

Julian Ogilvie Thompson	Diocesan College	Worcester	1953	South African businessman, former chairman of De Beers and Anglo American

Frank Wells	Pomona College	St John's	1953	President of Warner Brothers (1973–1982) and The Walt Disney Company (1984–1994) until his death in a helicopter crash

Bob Hawke	Western Australia	University	1953	President of ACTU 1969–1979, Prime Minister of Australia, 1983–1991

Leonard Hoffmann	Cape Town	Queen's	1954	UK Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

Norman Cantor	Manitoba and Princeton	Oriel	1954	Canadian historian of the Middle Ages

Richard Lugar	Denison	Pembroke	1954	U.S. Senator (R-Ind.) 1977–2013, Aspen Strategy Group member

Paul Sarbanes	Princeton	Balliol	1954	U.S. Senator (D-Md.) 1977–2007

Robert Paxton	Washington & Lee	Merton	1954	Historian, academic

John Robert Evans	Toronto	University	1955	President of the University of Toronto 1972–1978, chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation

John H. Morrison	New Mexico	University	1955	Senior partner, Kirkland & Ellis (1962–1999)

Reynolds Price	Duke	Merton	1955	Poet and novelist

Johan Steyn	Cape Province	University	1955	UK Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

Ian Wilson	Adelaide	Magdalen	1955	Solicitor, company director, former Australian politician, Minister for Home Affairs and Environment, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs

Neal Blewett	Tasmania	Jesus	1956	Australian academic, professor of politics, politician, cabinet minister, UK High Commissioner

Virendra Dayal	Delhi	University	1956	Indian Administrative Service and United Nations officer; served as Chef de Cabinet to Secretary-General of the United Nations

Willie Morris	Texas	New College	1956	Author, editor of Harper's Magazine (1967–1971)

Chula De Silva	Ceylon	Trinity	1956	Lawyer and politician

Elliott H. Levitas	Emory	University	1956	U.S. Congressman (Georgia), 1975–1985

Neil Leon Rudenstine	Princeton	New College	1956	Educator, president of Harvard University, 1991–2001

Arthur Kroeger	Alberta	Pembroke	1956	Canadian civil servant and diplomat, chancellor of Carleton University, 1993–2002

Ranjit Bhatia	India	Jesus	1957	Indian Olympic athlete

Erich S. Gruen	Columbia	Merton	1957	Austrian-American classical scholar

Rex Nettleford	Jamaica	Oriel	1957	Vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies, author, dance director

Robert I. Rotberg	Princeton	University	1957	American political scientist

Aaron Sloman	Cape Town	Balliol	1957	Philosopher, AI researcher, cognitive scientist

Gilbert Strang	MIT	Balliol	1957	MIT maths professor

Michael Fried	Princeton	Merton	1958	American art historian and critic

Roger Howell, Jr.	Bowdoin	St John's	1958	10th president of Bowdoin College (1968–1978), professor and scholar of British history at Bowdoin, author of several books on British history specializing in Tudor and Stuart England

Mervyn Morris	West Indies	St Edmund	1958	Jamaican poet and professor emeritus at University of the West Indies; recipient of the Jamaican Order of Merit; Poet Laureate of Jamaica

Kris Kristofferson	Pomona	Merton	1958	American singer/songwriter and actor, starred in Amerika (1987)

Joseph Nye, Jr.	Princeton	Exeter	1958	American political scientist; chairman National Intelligence Council (1993–1994); ASD for International Security Affairs (1994–1995); dean, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard

Jonathan Kozol	Harvard	Magdalen	1958	American writer and social activist

Manmohan Malhoutra	Delhi	Balliol	1958	Assistant Secretary-General of the Commonwealth

Richard Deane Terrell	Adelaide	Magdalen	1959	Econometrician and vigneron, vice-chancellor ANU 1994–2000, chairman AARNET Pty Ltd 2002–, CEO Quarry Hill Wines 2000–

Desmond Morton	RMC of Canada	Keble	1959	Historian and author

David Pithey	Cape Town	St Edmund	1959	Rhodesian-born South African cricketer, 1963–67

Peter M. Dawkins	U.S. Military Academy	Brasenose	1959	1958 Heisman Trophy winner, Brigadier General, US Army (Ret. 1983), chairman and CEO of Diversified Distribution Services, Travelers Group

Shahid Javed Burki	Government College	Christ Church	1960	Economist, Finance Minister of Pakistan

Richard F. Celeste	Yale	Exeter	1960	Governor of Ohio (1983–1991), director of the Peace Corps, U.S. Ambassador to India, president of Colorado College

Girish Karnad	Karnatak	Lincoln and Magdalen	1960	Indian Kannada-language playwright, film actor and director, screenwriter

Lester C. Thurow	Williams	Balliol	1960	American economist and author, professor of economics at MIT

Davis Earle	UBC	1960	Canadian physicist

David Souter	Harvard	Magdalen	1961	Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1990–2009

Andrew Graham	Oxford	St Edmund	1961	Political economist, director of the Scott Trust, senior fellow of Oxford Internet Institute, acting master of Balliol College, Oxford, 1997–2001, policy advisor to Harold Wilson, 1974–76

Rex Adams	Duke	Merton	1962	Chairman of the board of PBS, dean of the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

David B. Frohnmayer	Harvard	Wadham	1962	President of the University of Oregon, 1994–; Attorney General of Oregon, 1980–1991

Bryan Gould	Auckland	Balliol	1962	New Zealand-born British politician, academic, vice-chancellor of University of Waikato

David Hodgson	Sydney	University	1962	Australian judge

David Boren	Yale	Balliol	1963	Governor of Oklahoma 1975–1979, U.S. Senator (D-Ok.) 1979–1994, president of the University of Oklahoma 1994–

Walter B. Slocombe	Princeton	Balliol	1963	U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (1994–2001), senior adviser for national defense for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad (2003), Aspen Strategy Group member

Sheldon Chumir	Alberta	Brasenose	1963	Lawyer, member of Legislative Assembly of Province of Alberta

John Edgar Wideman	Pennsylvania	New College	1963	American writer, two-time recipient of PEN/Faulkner award

Marcel Massé	McGill	Pembroke	1963	Canadian civil servant and politician; clerk of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, president of the Treasury Board and member of cabinet

R. James Woolsey	Stanford	St John's	1963	Director of Central Intelligence Agency (1993–1995), core member of the Project for the New American Century (1997–), senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton (2002–)

Montek Singh Ahluwalia	St. Stephen's	Magdalen	1964	Indian economist, first independent evaluator o the International Monetary Fund, deputy chairman of the Planning Commission

Robin Boadway	RMC of Canada	Exeter	1964	Canadian economist and author

Dyson Heydon	Sydney	University	1964	High Court judge of Australia

Shaukat Hameed Khan	Punjab	Balliol	1964	Rector, GIK Institute, Director General Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Pride of Performance Recipient

Larry Pressler	South Dakota	St Edmund	1964	American politician, U.S. Congressman (R-S.D.) 1975–1979, U.S. Senator (R-S.D.) 1979–1997, authored the Telecommunications Act of 1996

Wasim Sajjad	Burn Hall	Wadham	1964	Pakistani politician and lawyer, interim president of Pakistan, chairman of the Senate

Ralph C. S. Walker	McGill	Balliol	1964	British philosopher, head of Humanities Division at the University of Oxford 2000–2006

Tommy Bedford	Natal	St Edmund	1965	South African Rugby Union player 1963–71

Bill Bradley	Princeton	Worcester	1965	American politician, NBA star, U.S. Senator (D-N.J.) 1979–1997, and Democratic presidential candidate, 2000

Richard Danzig	Reed	Magdalen	1965	U.S. Under Secretary of the Navy (1993–1997), U.S. Secretary of the Navy (1998–2001)

Aftab Seth	Delhi	Christ Church	1965	Indian Ambassador to Japan

Daryl Williams	Western Australia	Wadham	1965	Australian politician, Liberal Member of the House of Representatives, 1993–2004, Attorney-General of Australia 1996–2003

Michael C. Bonello	Malta	St Edmund	1966	Governor of the Central Bank of Malta, 1999–

Andrew Brook	Alberta	Queen's	1966	Canadian philosopher

John J. M. Bergeron	McGill	Worcester	1966	Canadian Cell Biologist, CQ, FRSC

Wesley Clark	U.S. Military Academy	Magdalen	1966	United States Army general, Supreme Allied Commander, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1997–2000; Democratic presidential candidate, 2004

Wilson Parasiuk	Manitoba	St. John's	1966	Canadian member of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly, Minister of Energy and Mines with responsibility for Manitoba Hydro, Minister of Health, 1977–1988; private/public sector entrepreneur, 1989–present

A. Michael Spence	Princeton	Magdalen	1966	Canadian economist, Nobel Prize in Economics for 2001

David E. Kendall	Wabash	Worcester	1966	American lawyer, President Clinton's personal lawyer

Terrence Malick	Harvard	Magdalen	1966	American film director of Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, Badlands, The New World, and The Tree of Life

Thomas H. Allen	Bowdoin	Wadham	1967	American politician, U.S. Congressman (Maine), 1997–2009

John Doyle	Adelaide	Magdalen	1967	Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, 1995–2012

Karl Marlantes	Yale	University	1967	American author of Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War

Deepak Nayyar	Delhi	Balliol	1967	Vice chancellor of Delhi University

Stephen A. Oxman	Princeton	New College	1967	U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs, 1993–1994, president of the board of trustees of Princeton University, 2006–

Dennis C. Blair	U.S. Naval Academy	University	1968	Retired four-star Admiral, former Director of National Intelligence (2009–2010), president of the Institute for Defense Analyses and former Commander-in-Chief of U.S.

Colin Bundy	Witwatersrand	Merton	1968	Vice chancellor University of the Witwatersrand (1997–2001); deputy vice chancellor University of London (2003–06); Warden Green College (2006–08); Principal Green Templeton College (2008–)

Peter Cameron	Queensland	Balliol	1968	Mathematician, academic

Peter Conrad	Tasmania	New College	1968	Academic (English literature)

Robert McCallum, Jr.	Yale	Christ Church	1968	American lawyer, U.S. Associate Attorney General, 2003–

Rex Murphy	Memorial	St Edmund	1968	Canadian commentator

Robert Reich	Dartmouth	University	1968	American commentator and author, U.S. Secretary of Labor (1993–1997), Chancellor's Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley (2006–)

Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr.	Harvard	Exeter	1968	Vice chairman of The Washington Post Company, former publisher and CEO of The Washington Post (2000–2008)

Bill Clinton	Georgetown	University (Honorary Degree)	1968	American politician, 42nd president of the United States, 1993–2001, Governor of Arkansas, 1979–1981 & 1983–1993

G. L. Peiris	Colombo	University	1968	Sri Lankan politician, 11th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka, 2010–present

William A. Fletcher	Harvard	Merton	1968	Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit

Chris Laidlaw	Otago	Merton	1968	New Zealand All Black, diplomat, MP, talk radio host, author, Human Rights Commissioner and Race Relations Conciliator

Strobe Talbott	Yale	Magdalen	1968	American diplomat and journalist, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (1994–2001), president of the Brookings Institution (2002–), Aspen Strategy Group member

Roger B. Porter	BYU	Queens	1969	Harvard professor of Business and Government, senior scholar at the Wilson Center, senior economic advisor to presidents Ford, Reagan, and Bush

Ira Magaziner	Brown	Balliol	1969	White House senior aide (1993–1999), originator of ICANN

Selwyn Maister	Canterbury	Magdalen	1969	New Zealand Olympic field hockey player (1976)

Bob Rae	Toronto	Balliol	1969	Canadian politician, former Premier of Ontario

Danny Williams	Memorial	Keble	1969	Lawyer and businessman, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador

David Williams	Victoria (NZ)	Balliol	1969	New Zealand barrister, solicitor and academic

James Fallows	Harvard	Queen's	1970	American writer (The Atlantic Monthly)

Kenneth Hayne	Melbourne	Exeter	1970	Australian jurist: Supreme Court of Victoria (1992–95); Court of Appeals division of the Supreme Court of Victoria (1995–97); Puisne Justice of the High Court of Australia (1997–)

David Quammen	Yale	Merton	1970	American science, nature and travel writer

Eric Redman	Harvard	Magdalen	1970	Staffer, US Senator Warren G. Magnuson (ca.1971); author, The Dance of Legislation (1973, 2000); lawyer and businessman

Geoffrey Robertson	Sydney	University	1970	Barrister and international human rights activist

Richard H. Trainor	Brown and Princeton	Merton	1970	Principal of King's College London

Franklin Raines	Harvard	Magdalen	1971	Chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae, 1999–2004; director of the Office of Management and Budget, 1996–1998

Chris Mann	Witwatersrand	St Edmund	1971	South African poet, professor of poetry at Rhodes University

Kurt Schmoke	Yale	Balliol	1971	Mayor of Baltimore, 1987–1999; dean of Howard University School of Law

Geoff Gallop	Western Australia	St John's	1972	Academic, Premier of Western Australia, 2001–2006

Michael Kinsley	Harvard	Magdalen	1972	American journalist (Los Angeles Times), founder of Slate magazine, editor of The New Republic

Tom Birmingham	Harvard	Exeter	1972	President of the Massachusetts Senate, candidate for Democratic nomination for Governor of Massachusetts, 2002

Kim Beazley	Western Australia	Balliol	1973	Australian politician, former deputy prime minister of Australia and Leader of the Opposition, Australian ambassador to the United States

E. J. Dionne	Harvard	Balliol	1973	American journalist and Washington Post columnist (1993–), senior fellow at Brookings Institution, and commentator on NPR, MSNBC, and PBS

Richard N. Haass	Oberlin	Wadham and St Antony's	1973	President of the Council on Foreign Relations (2003–, succeeding Leslie Gelb), director of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State (2001–2003)

Frank Klotz	USAF Academy	Trinity	1973	U.S. Air Force lieutenant general, first commander Air Force Global Strike Command

T. A. Barron	Princeton	Balliol	1974	American author

Rod Eddington	Western Australia	Lincoln	1974	Former CEO of British Airways, director of News Corporation

Charles Thomas McMillen	Maryland	University	1974	U.S. Olympian, NBA basketball player, U.S. Congressman (Maryland), 1987–1993

Walter Isaacson	Harvard	Pembroke	1974	Author, managing editor of Time magazine (1995–2001), chairman and CEO of CNN (2001–), president of the Aspen Institute (2003–), vice chairman of the Louisiana Recovery Authority (2005–)

Edwin Cameron	Stellenbosch	Keble	1975	Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, African National Congress lawyer and AIDS activist

Clayton Christensen	BYU	Queens	1975	Harvard Business School professor, author

Peter King	Sydney	Worcester	1975	Australian barrister, author, and federal politician

Mike Fitzpatrick	Western Australia	St John's	1975	Australian businessman, sporting administrator and former Australian rules footballer

Larry Sabato	Virginia and Princeton	Queen's	1975	American political scientist and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics

Russ Feingold	Wisconsin	Magdalen	1975	U.S. Senator (D-Wis.) 1993–2011

Michael L'Estrange	Sydney	Worcester	1975	Australian diplomat and senior public servant

Michael Sandel	Brandeis	Balliol	1975	American political philosopher and professor at Harvard University

Mel Reynolds	Illinois	Lincoln	1975	U.S. Congressman (Illinois), 1993–1995; convicted felon

Hans-Paul Bürkner	Bochum	St Catherine's	1976	Former president and CEO of The Boston Consulting Group (2004–2012), chairman at BCG (2012–)

Ashton Carter	Yale	St John's	1976	Former Harvard professor and United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (October 2011 – December 2013), former United States Secretary of Defense

John Hood	Auckland	Worcester	1976	New Zealand businessman, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford 2004–2009

Gerrit W. Gong	BYU	Wadham	1977	Special assistant in the State Department, Asia Director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

David Hatendi	Zimbabwe	University	1977	Zimbabwean businessman, former CEO of MBCA and NMB

Randall Kennedy	Princeton	Balliol	1977	Harvard Law School professor

Hubertus van der Vaart	North Carolina	Magdalen	1977	Dutch American businessman, co-founder/chairman of SEAF (Small Enterprise Assistance Funds)

James Belich	Victoria (NZ)	Nuffield	1978	New Zealand historian

Pat Haden	USC	University	1978	Won Rose Bowl MVP as quarterback at USC, played with the Los Angeles Rams, currently the athletic director at his alma mater, USC

Eric Lander	Princeton	St John's	1978	Chair of U.S. President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, founder of the Human Genome Project, biology professor at MIT

Evelyn O'Callaghan	Cork	Wolfson	1978	Jamaican academic, professor of West Indian literature at University of the West Indies

Ann Olivarius	Yale	Somerville	1978	American-British lawyer who specializes in cases of civil litigation, sexual harassment, and sexual discrimination

Lucy Sichone	University of Zambia	Somerville	1978	Zambian civil rights activist and first woman to have her portrait displayed on the walls of the Rhodes House

Malcolm Turnbull	Sydney	Brasenose	1978	29th Prime Minister of Australia, 2015–2018

David Naylor	Toronto	Hertford	1979	Canadian medical researcher, president of the University of Toronto

Nancy-Ann Min DeParle	Tennessee	Balliol	1979	Administrator of the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration, 1997–2000, director of White House Office of Health Reform, 2009–

Stephen Gumley	Tasmania	St Catherine's	1979	Chief Executive Officer of the Defence Materiel Organisation (Australia)

Robert Maloney	Harvard	Magdalen	1979	Ophthalmologist, LASIK specialist, Extreme Makeover ophthalmologist

Marc Tessier-Lavigne	McGill University	New College	1980	Canadian neuroscientist, president of Stanford University, past president of Rockefeller University

John MacBain	McGill	Wadham	1980	Canadian multi-billionaire, president and CEO of Trader Classified Media, one of the world's largest classified advertising companies

Don Elder	Canterbury	Wolfson	1980	New Zealand engineer and businessman

Clark Ervin	Harvard	St Catherine's	1980	Former Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Mortimer Sellers	Harvard	University	1980	American philosopher

Elsdon Storey	Melbourne	Magdalen & Wolfson	1980	Australian neurologist

Andrew Wilkinson	Alberta	Magdalen	1980	Canadian politician, former Minister in British Columbia, Leader of the Liberal Party in British Columbia

Tony Abbott	Sydney	Queen's	1981	28th Prime Minister of Australia, 18 September 2013 – 14 September 2015

Nicholas D. Kristof	Harvard	Magdalen	1981	New York Times reporter and columnist, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Aspen Strategy Group member

Donald Markwell	University of Queensland	Trinity	1981	Educational reformer and first Rhodes Scholar to serve as Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford

Simon Upton	Auckland	Wolfson	1981	New Zealand politician and member of Parliament

Barton Gellman	Princeton	University	1982	Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. journalist (Washington Post and Time magazine), author

Benedict Kingsbury	Canterbury	Balliol	1982	New Zealand legal scholar, author and researcher, professor at New York University

Gareth Penny	St Edmund	1982	Non-executive chairman of Norilsk Nickel, executive chairman of New World Resources and formerly group CEO of De Beers

Heather Wilson	USAF Academy	Jesus	1982	President of South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; former Republican member of the US House of Representatives, representing New Mexico's 1st congressional district 1998–2009; first female military veteran elected to a full term in Congress

Charles R. Conn	Boston	Balliol	1983	Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford, 2013–2018

Christopher Eisgruber	Princeton	University	1983	President of Princeton University

David Frederick	Pittsburgh	University	1983	Appellate Attorney who has parties dozens of cases before the United States Supreme Court

Bill Halter	Stanford	St John's	1983	Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas 2007–2011

Elizabeth Kiss	Davidson	Balliol	1983	Former President of Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia; Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford, 2018–

Lois Quam	Macalester College	Trinity	1983	Business executive who has worked in the public and the private sectors to expand access to health care

David Vitter	Harvard	Magdalen	1983	U.S. Senator (R-La.), 2005–2017

John Wylie	University of Queensland	Balliol	1983	Australian investment banker and Trustee of the Rhodes Trust, 2010–2018

Elizabeth Hollingworth	St Edmund	1984	Australian judge, Trials Division Justice at the Supreme Court of Victoria, 2004–

Richard Flanagan	Tasmania	Worcester	1984	Australian author, winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Writers PrizeWinner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize

Graham Steele	Manitoba	St Edmund	1984	Canadian lawyer and former politician, represented the constituency of Halifax in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, 2001–13

Dominic Barton	British Columbia	Brasenose	1984	Former President/head and managing director of McKinsey & Company, a multi-billion revenue consulting firm. Chancellor, University of Waterloo, Canada

Christopher Hedrick	Stanford	Magdalen	1984	Peace Corps/Senegal country director, former president and CEO of Intrepid Learning Solutions

Robert Malley	Yale	Magdalen	1984	Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs, National Security Council, 1997–2001

Hunter Monroe	Davidson	Balliol	1984	International Monetary Fund, Staff of Joint Economic Committee of Congress, and Research Associate at the Peterson Institute for International Economics

Daniel R. Porterfield	Georgetown	Hertford	1984	Former aide to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala; president of Franklin & Marshall College

George Stephanopoulos	Columbia	Balliol	1984	Moderator of ABC's This Week and communications director for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign

Mark S. Martins	U.S. Military Academy	Balliol	1985	Brigadier General (United States Army), Chief Prosecutor of Military Commissions

Peter Rathjen	Adelaide	New College	1985	Australian stem cell scientist, vice-chancellor, University of Tasmania 2011–

Naomi Wolf	Yale	New College	1985	American feminist social critic, author of books including The End of America (2007)

Chen Show Mao	Harvard	Corpus Christi	1986	Singaporean opposition politician and lawyer

Bryan Horrigan	Queensland	University	1986	Dean of Law Faculty, Monash University; Australian researcher, consultant, commentator and professional speaker on specialised legal, business, and governmental topics

Michael McFaul	Stanford	St. John's	1986	U.S. Ambassador to Russia, academic

Susan Rice	Stanford	New College	1986	U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1997–2001), United States Ambassador to the United Nations, (2009–2013), National Security Advisor (2013–2017)

Graham Steele	Manitoba	St Edmund	1986	Minister of Finance of Nova Scotia (July 2009–), member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (2001–)

Joseph M. Torsella	Pennsylvania	New College	1986	President and CEO of the National Constitution Center 2006–

David Chalmers	Adelaide	Lincoln	1987	Australian philosopher of mind

Patrick Pichette	Université du Québec à Montréal	Pembroke	1987	Senior vice president and chief financial officer of Google until 2015

Jim Collins	Holy Cross	Balliol	1987	Founder of synthetic biology; MacArthur "genius" bioengineer and inventor; MIT professor

Atul Gawande	Stanford	Balliol	1987	Surgeon and New Yorker medical writer

Sagarika Ghose-Sardesai	St. Stephen's	Magdalen and St Antony's	1987	Indian journalist

Benjamin Jealous	Columbia	St. Antony's	1987	President and CEO of NAACP 2008–2013

David Kirk	Otago	Worcester	1987	Captain of the New Zealand All Blacks who won the inaugural Rugby (Union) World Cup in 1987; CEO of Fairfax Media, 2005–2008

Jacob Weisberg	Yale	New College	1987	Journalist and editor of Slate magazine

Ngaire Woods	Auckland	Balliol	1987	New Zealand-born British academic

Richard Drayton	Harvard	Balliol	1988	Historian, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History

Ceri Evans	Otago	Worcester	1988	New Zealand footballer, forensic psychiatrist

Jim Himes	Harvard	St Edmund	1988	American businessman, Democratic U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 4th Congressional District

Brad Carson	Baylor	Trinity	1989	U.S. Congressman (Oklahoma), 2001–2005

Michael McCullough	Stanford	Balliol	1989	Social entrepreneur; founder of QuestBridge, medical investor and entrepreneur, physician, assistant professor at UCSF

Tara Welch	University of Southern California	Corpus Christi College	1989	University of Kansas classics professor

Michael Szonyi	Toronto	Merton	1990	Professor of Chinese history at Harvard University

Arthur Mutambara	Zimbabwe	Merton	1991	Zimbabwean politician who became president of one faction of the Movement for Democratic Change in 2006

David Coleman	Yale	University	1991	Ninth president of the College Board

Jeff Shesol	Brown	Magdalen	1991	Author, speechwriter, political cartoonist

Neel Mukherjee (writer)	Jadavpur	University	1992	Novelist, longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize

Cory Booker	Stanford	Queen's	1992	Former mayor of Newark, New Jersey; 2013 elected Democratic US Senator from New Jersey

Noah Feldman	Harvard	Christ Church	1992	American author, Harvard law professor, constitutional adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, 2003–2005

Nikolas Gvosdev	Georgetown	St Antony's	1992	Russian-American contributing editor for The National Interest, teacher at Naval War College

Bobby Jindal	Brown	New College	1992	Governor of Louisiana (2008–2016); U.S. congressman, civil servant, and university administrator; former Republican presidential candidate (2015)

Sanjeev Sanyal	Delhi	St John's	1992	Asian economist, banker and conservationist from India

Peter Beinart	Yale	University	1993	Journalist; former editor of The New Republic; contributing editor at The Atlantic; associate professor at CUNY

John Cloud	Harvard	Brasenose	1993	Former Senior Writer, Time; freelance writer

Chrystia Freeland	Harvard	St Antony's	1993	Canadian author, editor of Thomson Reuters Digital, Member of Parliament, Canada's Minister of Global Affairs

Eric Garcetti	Columbia	Queen's	1993	Mayor of Los Angeles

Siddhartha Mukherjee	Stanford	Magdalen	1993	Physician, scientist, professor at Columbia Medical School, author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

Faith Salie	Harvard	Magdalen	1993	Actress, comedian, host of Public Radio International's Fair Game from PRI with Faith Salie

Randal Pinkett	Rutgers	Keble	1994	President and CEO of BCT Partners, winner of The Apprentice 4

Rachel Maddow	Stanford	Lincoln	1995	Journalist; social activist; host of The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC

D. John Sauer	Duke	1996	Solicitor General of Missouri

Alexander Straub	Darmstadt and Cornell	St John's	1996	London-based entrepreneur and financier from Germany

Simon Chesterman	Melbourne	Magdalen	1997	International law professor and author from Australia

Michael Fullilove	Sydney and NSW	Balliol	1997	Author and foreign policy commentator from Australia

Simon Hollingsworth	Tasmania	Exeter	1997	Olympic Games (1992, 1996) and Commonwealth Games (1990, 1994) athlete (400m hurdles) from Australia

Annette Salmeen	UCLA	St John's	1997	American gold medalist in swimming at the 1996 Olympic Games

James Edelman	University of Western Australia	Magdalen	1998	Justice of the High Court of Australia

Rachel Simmons	Vassar	Lincoln	1998	Author of Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls (Harcourt, 2002)

Eric Greitens	Duke	Lady Margaret Hall	1998	56th Governor of Missouri, Founder of The Mission Continues and former Navy SEAL

Ben Cannon	Washington	Corpus Christi	1999	Oregon State Representative

Marc Kielburger	Harvard	University	1999	Humanitarian activist from Canada, co-founder of Free the Children

Meghana Narayan	Bangalore	Oriel	2000	International swimming champion from India

Jake Sullivan	Yale	Magdalen	2000	American Director of Policy Planning (2011–2013), National Security Advisor to the Vice President (2013–2014)

Fasi Zaka	Peshawar	Somerville	2001	Pakistani political columnist, radio and TV show host, "Head of Ideas" for an advertising agency, 2012 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader

Wes Moore	Johns Hopkins	Wolfson	2001	New York Times Bestselling Author, CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation

Chesa Boudin	Yale	St Antony's	2002	American social activist in justice issues like parental incarceration, author of Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America (2009)

Jeremy England	Harvard	St. John's	2003	American physicist and proposer of "dissipative-driven adaptation"

Jonah Lehrer	Columbia	Wolfson	2003	Writer

Cyrus Habib	Columbia	St John's	2003	16th Lieutenant Governor of Washington, first Iranian-American elected to state-level office in the U.S.

Jared Cohen	Stanford	St John's	2004	CEO of Jigsaw and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations

Rosara Joseph	Canterbury	St John's	2005	2006 Commonwealth Games and 2008 Olympic Games cyclist from New Zealand

Pete Buttigieg	Harvard	Pembroke	2005	Mayor of South Bend, Indiana

Garrett Johnson	Florida State	Exeter	2005	Co-founder of SendHub, All-American athlete (shot put)

Leana Wen	Washington	Merton	2007	American physician, Baltimore Health Commissioner, and author of When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests

Myron Rolle	Florida State	St Edmund	2008	All-ACC defensive back for Florida State Seminoles; selected by the Tennessee Titans in the 2010 NFL Draft; Bahamian-American; played for the Tennessee Titans and the Pittsburgh Steelers

Kingwa Kamencu	Nairobi	Wolfson	2009	2012 presidential candidate for Kenya

Abdul El-Sayed	Michigan	Oriel	2009	Detroit Health Commissioner

Mari Rabie	Stellenbosch	St Catherine's	2010	2006 Commonwealth Games and 2008 Olympic Games triathlete from South Africa

Varun Sivaram	Stanford	St John's	2011	American energy expert, CTO of ReNew Power, and author of Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet (MIT Press, 2018)

Ronan Farrow	Yale	Magdalen	2012	American human rights activist, senior foreign policy official in the Obama administration, and U.S. State Department special adviser on global youth issues

Vincent Taylor	University of the West Indies	Magdalen	2013	Cyber security expert and academic who authored seminal literature on security and privacy in the electronic world.

Shamma Al Mazrui	New York University Abu Dhabi	2014	United Arab Emirates Minister of Youth

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Van der Vaart was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.

final_sentence: Van der Vaart was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.