# List of fictional University of Oxford people

This is a list of fictional people associated with the University of Oxford. Some characters attended fictional colleges; others attended genuine colleges at the university.

## List

* Sir Humphrey Appleby GCB (Baillie, perhaps Balliol College) Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister
* Stephen Barley The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
* Lyra Belacqua (the fictional Jordan) His Dark Materials
* Edmund Bertram Mansfield Park
* Anthony Blanche Brideshead Revisited
* James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies
* Lord Brideshead Brideshead Revisited
* Tom Brown (St Ambrose's, probably based on Oriel) Tom Brown at Oxford
* Prince Bumpo Doctor Dolittle
* 'Chacko' The God of Small Things
* The Clerk of Oxenford The Canterbury Tales
* Simon Cormack The Negotiator
* Frasier Crane Frasier
* Thomas Crown The Thomas Crown Affair
* Dick Diver (Rhodes Scholar) Tender Is the Night
* Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
* Robert Elsmere by Mrs Humphry Ward
* Kivrin Engle Doomsday Book
* Gervase Fen (the fictional St Christopher's) by Edmund Crispin
* Edward Ferrars Sense and Sensibility
* Lord Sebastian Flyte (Christ Church) Brideshead Revisited
* Charles Gardner (the fictional St Sebastian's) Hut 33
* Jay Gatsby The Great Gatsby
* Rupert Giles Buffy the Vampire Slayer
* Patrick Grant (the fictional St Mark's) by Margaret Yorke
* Verdant Green (Brazenface) The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
* Rev. Mr. Hale (the fictional Plymouth, based on Exeter College) North and South
* Basil Hallward The Picture of Dorian Gray
* Bill Haydon by John le Carré
* Captain Hook (Balliol) Peter Pan
* Master Keaton and his wife (Somerville)
* John Kemp Jill
* Vanessa Kensington Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
* Chatter Lal Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
* Canon Leigh (Christ Church) Towers in the Mist by Elizabeth Goudge
* Alwin Lowdham The Notion Club Papers
* Helen Magnus Sanctuary
* Pincher Martin (Christ Church)
* Mary, Marie, Margaret and Myfanwy (the fictional St Bride's College (Somerville)) by Philip Larkin
* Ranald McKechnie (the fictional Surrey College) A Staircase in Surrey
* Jenny Mellor (Merton College) An Education
* Colonel Sebastian Moran The Adventure of the Empty House
* Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse (St John's) Colin Dexter's Morse novels and TV adaptations
* Fox Mulder The X-Files
* Duncan Patullo (the fictional Surrey College) A Staircase in Surrey
* Paul The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
* Paul Pennyfeather (the fictional Scone College) Decline and Fall
* Charles Reding (the fictional St Saviour's College) Loss and Gain
* Rumpole of the Bailey (Keble or the fictional St Joseph's)
* Mary Russell by Laurie R. King
* Charles Ryder Brideshead Revisited
* Connie Sachs by John le Carré
* Donna Sheridan (New College) Mamma Mia!
* George Smiley (Lincoln) by John le Carré
* Roderick Spode The Code of the Woosters
* Gwen Stacy (Somerville) in The Amazing Spider-Man 2
* Prince Nasir al-Subaai and Prince Meshal al-Subaai Syriana
* Connie Tate The West Wing TV series
* Sir Leigh Teabing The Da Vinci Code
* Paul Temple by Francis Durbridge
* Nigel Thornberry The Wild Thornberrys
* Henry Tilney Northanger Abbey
* Professor Timberlake (J. R. R. Tolkien) (the fictional Surrey College) A Staircase in Surrey
* Harriet Vane (the fictional Shrewsbury College (Somerville)) by Dorothy L. Sayers
* Lord Peter Wimsey (Balliol) by Dorothy L. Sayers
* Viscount St George Wimsey (Christ Church) by Dorothy L. Sayers
* Bertie Wooster (Magdalen) by P. G. Wodehouse
* Lord Henry Wotton The Picture of Dorian Gray
* Charles Xavier (Pembroke) X-Men