# List of alumni of Keble College, Oxford

This is a list of alumni of Keble College, Oxford. The school's alumni include politicians, lawyers, bishops, poets, and academics. The majority of this list are male; from its foundation in 1870 until 1979 Keble only admitted male students.

## Academics

* Tim Besley, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
* Dame Averil Cameron, historian
* William Macbride Childs, the first vice-chancellor of the University of Reading
* Quassim Cassam, former Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy
* O. G. S. Crawford, archaeologist
* Martin Dixon, Professor of the Law of Real Property, University of Cambridge
* George Efstathiou, astrophysicist, Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge
* Richard English, historian of Irish nationalism, terrorism expert and director of CSTPV at the University of St Andrews
* Austin Farrer, theologian and philosopher
* Nick Foskett, Vice-Chancellor of Keele University (from August 2010)
* William Hugh Clifford Frend, historian, archaeologist, priest
* Marc Goergen, professor of finance
* James Harris, FBA, Professor at the London School of Economics
* Christopher Hawkes, archaeologist
* Geoffrey Hill, poet
* Paul Johnson, government economist
* Roderick MacFarquhar, politician, journalist, academic
* Bryan Magee, philosopher
* James Martin, author
* Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, economist
* David Spiegelhalter, statistician
* Raymond Tallis, Professor of Geriatrics, University of Manchester
* Ralph Townsend, Headmaster of Winchester College
* Christopher Wickham, Chichele Professor of Medieval History in the University of Oxford, fellow of All Souls College, and winner of the 2005 Wolfson History Prize

## Artists and broadcasters

* Thomas Armstrong, organist and conductor
* Leslie Banks, actor
* Frank Cottrell Boyce, children's author and screenwriter
* Katy Brand, actress, comedian and writer
* Ben Brown, television journalist
* Priyanga Burford, actor
* Humphrey Carpenter, writer and biographer
* Alexander Cockburn, journalist
* Giles Coren, writer
* Clement Crisp, dance critic
* Scott Ellaway, conductor and broadcaster
* Michael Elliot, theatre director
* Jeremy Filsell, piano and organ recitalist
* Michael Goodliffe, actor
* Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead, journalist and administrator
* Ian Hamilton, poet and critic
* Paula Hawkins, novelist and journalist
* John Hayes, Director of the National Portrait Gallery (1974–1994)
* Charles Hazlewood, conductor and broadcaster
* Anthony Hedges, composer and lecturer
* Chris Hollins, sports journalist and TV presenter
* Robert Lloyd, singer
* David Owen Norris, pianist, composer and broadcaster
* Peter Pears, singer
* Gavin Plumley, cultural historian
* Jason Pontin, journalist, editor and publisher
* Max Rushden, presenter of Sky Sports' Soccer AM
* Angela Saini, writer
* Edward St Aubyn, author
* John Shaw, radio broadcaster
* Robert Steadman, composer
* Philip Stopford, composer and conductor
* Colin Touchin, conductor, composer, and music educator
* Hugh Welchman, filmmaker
* John Whitfield, conductor
* Andreas Whittam Smith, journalist
* Philip Wilby, composer
* Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick, fashion designer
* Andrew Hunter Murray, author and podcaster
* Cressida Cowell, author

## Business and leaders

* Peter Batey, Sino-British businessman
* Sally Bercow, wife of John Bercow — former Speaker of the House of Commons
* Mark Goldring, CEO of Oxfam
* Anne-Marie Imafidon, CEO of Stemettes

## Clergy

* Walter Hubert Baddeley, bishop
* Ian James Brackley, bishop
* Harry James Carpenter, Bishop of Oxford
* Duleep De Chickera, Bishop of Colombo
* Stephen Conway, Bishop of Ely
* Lakdasa De Mel, Metropolitan Bishop of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon
* Gregory Dix, historian, monk
* Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York
* Frederick Joseph Kinsman, Bishop of Delaware
* John Richard Packer, Bishop of Ripon and Leeds
* Michael Francis Perham, Bishop of Gloucester
* Rev. David Railton, son of George Scott Railton and father of Dame Ruth Railton
* Geoffrey Rowell, Bishop of Gibraltar
* Harold Eustace Sexton, former Archbishop of British Columbia
* Marcus Stock, Bishop of Leeds
* David Thomas, Provincial Assistant Bishop of the Church in Wales
* John James Absalom Thomas, Bishop of Swansea and Brecon
* Michael Turnbull, bishop
* Chad Varah, Anglican priest, founder of the Samaritans
* Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London

## Lawyers

* Edwin Cameron, South African Rhodes scholar and current Constitutional Court of South Africa justice
* Dyson Heydon, former Justice of the High Court of Australia
* James Hunt, barrister and High Court judge
* Stewart Stevenson Moore, First Deemster and Clerk of the Rolls of the Isle of Man
* Randal Pinkett, participant on The Apprentice (US version) and President and CEO of BCT Partners
* Victor Priestwood, Crown Advocate of the British Supreme Court for China
* Kannon Shanmugam, American Supreme Court litigator

## Politicians

* Sir Arthur Dyke Acland, 13th Baronet, Liberal politician
* Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis, politician
* Ed Balls, Labour politician, MP for Morley and Outwood 2010-2015, previous Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
* Robert Bourassa, Canadian politician
* William Burdett-Coutts, Conservative politician
* Reginald Craddock, politician
* William Davison, 1st Baron Broughshane
* Philip Dunne, politician
* Richard Harrington, Baron Harrington of Watford, Conservative politician
* Les Huckfield, politician
* Imran Khan, 22nd Prime Minister of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Pakistani politician, former cricketer
* Peter Morrison, PPS to Margaret Thatcher
* Christopher Newbury, politician, member of the Council of Europe
* Tony Pua, Malaysian politician
* Sir Ivor Roberts, diplomat, President of Trinity College, Oxford
* George F. G. Stanley, Canadian historian, designer of Canadian flag, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
* Andy Street, Conservative Mayor of the West Midlands
* Sir James Cameron Tudor, Barbadian politician and diplomat
* Andrew Turner, politician
* Danny Williams, Premier of Newfoundland
* David Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, diplomat and Sinologist

## Sports people

* Ed Coode, British rower, twice World Champion and Olympic gold medallist
* Arthur James Dingle, English rugby union player
* Jason Flickinger, American rower and twice World Champion in the coxed fours
* Storm Uru, New Zealand rower, Olympic bronze medallist at the 2012 Summer Olympics, current MBA student