# List of alumni of St John's College, Oxford

A list of alumni of St John's College, Oxford, former students of the college of the University of Oxford. The overwhelming maleness of this list is partially explained by the fact that for over 90% of its history (from its foundation in 1555 until 1979), women were barred from studying at St John's. The college maintains a growing list of profiles of prominent recent alumni on its website.

## Politicians in the United Kingdom

| Name | M | Degree | Notes |
| Rushanara Ali | 1993 | BA PPE | Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow (2010–) |
| Edward Bayntun | 1636 | | MP for Devizes and Calne at various points between 1640 and 1679 |
| Aaron Bell | 1998 | BA PPE | Conservative MP for Newcastle-Under-Lyme (2019–) |
| Tony Blair (HF) | 1972 | BA Jurisprudence (2nd, 1975) | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997–2007); Labour MP for Sedgefield (1983–2007) |
| Aidan Burley | 1998 | BA Theology | Conservative MP for Cannock Chase (2010–2015) |
| Alistair Burt | 1974 | BA Jurisprudence (1977) | Conservative MP for Bury North (1983–1997) and North East Bedfordshire (2001–2019) |
| Alan Duncan | 1976 | BA PPE (1979) | Conservative MP for Rutland and Melton (1992–2019) |
| Angela Eagle | 1980 | BA PPE | Labour MP for Wallasey (1992–) |
| John Grogan | 1979 | BA History and Economics (1982) | Labour MP for Selby (1997–2010) |
| David Heath | 1972 | MA Physiological Sciences | Liberal Democrat MP for Somerton and Frome (1997–2015) |
| John Howell | 1978 | DPhil Archaeology | Conservative MP for Henley (2008–) |
| Gregg McClymont | 1999 | DPhil History | Labour MP for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East (2010–2015) |
| Andrew Smith | 1969 | BA PPE, BPhil | Labour MP for Oxford East (1987–2017); Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1999–2002); Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (2002–2004) |
| David Tredinnick | 1981 | MLitt | Conservative MP for Bosworth (1987–2019) |
* George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave
* Charles Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor
* Henry Croke
* Edward du Cann
* William Duckett, MP
* Gwynfor Evans, former President of Plaid Cymru and first MP
* John Gilbert, Baron Gilbert
* Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington
* Auberon Herbert, MP and political philosopher.
* Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham
* Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha
* Peter Mews of Hinton Admiral
* Rhodri Morgan, former First Minister of Wales
* John Parker, MP
* Thomas Russell
* John Smith, 17th-century Chancellor of the Exchequer
* Shaun Spiers
* Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham
* William Trumbull
* Henry Wallop
* Francis Windebank
* Sir Richard Wrottesley, 7th Baronet

## Politicians and royalty of other countries

| Name | M | Degree | Notes |
| Korn Chatikavanij | 1983 | BA PPE | Thailand Finance Minister (2008–2011) |
| Prince Diego Massimiliano De Giorgi | 2010 | - | Visiting research student at the Faculty of Law; Head of the House of Giorgi (2014–) |
| Prince Fumihito | 1988 | - | Visiting graduate student at the Department of Zoology; Prince Akishino of Japan |
| Geoff Gallop | 1972 | BA PPE (2nd, 1974) | Rhodes Scholar; 27th Premier of Western Australia (2001–2006) |
| Olara Otunnu | 1973 | BA Jurisprudence | St John's Overseas Scholar; Uganda's Ambassador to the United Nations (1980–1985); President of the International Peace Academy (1990–1998); UN Under-Secretary General and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict (1998–2005); President of the Uganda People's Congress (2010–) |
| Lester B. Pearson (HF, 1946) | 1921 | BA Modern History (2nd, 1923), MA (1925) | Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1957); 14th Prime Minister of Canada (1963–1968) |
| Dean Rusk | 1931 | BS (1933), MA (1934) | Rhodes Scholar; Secretary of State of the United States (1961–1969) |
| A. N. R. Robinson (HF) | 1951 | BA PPE (2nd, 1953), MA | 3rd Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (1986–1991); 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago (1997–2003) |
| Craig Scott | 1984 | BA Jurisprudence (1986, 1st) | Rhodes Scholar; Canadian politician |
| Abhisit Vejjajiva | 1983 | BA PPE (1st), MPhil | 27th Prime Minister of Thailand (2008–2011) |

## Civil servants and diplomats

* Alan Bailey, formerly Permanent Secretary, Department of Transport
* Mervyn Brown, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Madagascar (1967–70), High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Tanzania (1975–78), High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Nigeria (1979–83)
* Ash Carter, United States Secretary of Defense
* Charles Crawford, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996–98), Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Yugoslavia (2001–03), Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Poland (2003–07)
* David Faulkner, civil servant
* David Frost, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Denmark (2006–08), CEO of the Scotch Whisky Association (2014–)
* Arnold Heeney
* Geoffrey Holland, former Permanent Secretary, Department of Employment and Department of Education and Vice-Chancellor, Exeter University; chairman, Quality Improvement Agency
* Khoo Boon Hui, president of INTERPOL
* Michael McFaul, United States Ambassador to Russia (2012-2014)
* Frank Newsam
* Michael Partridge, former Permanent Secretary, Department of Social Security; Pro-Chancellor and Governor, Middlesex University
* Sir David Pepper, former director of GCHQ
* Maharaj Muthoo Doctorate from Oxford as Commonwealth scholar; Indian Government & United Nations System senior civil servant
* John Rickard
* R. James Woolsey, Jr., United States Under Secretary of the Navy (1977–79), 16th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1993–95)
* Chris Wormald, Permanent Secretary, Department of Health
* Heath Tarbert, Nominee for Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Markets and Development in the U.S. (2017)

## Judges and lawyers

* Nigel Carrington, lawyer and Vice-Chancellor of University of the Arts London
* Brian Cregan, Irish High Court judge
* James Eyre, judge
* Nicholas Hamblen, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
* Gérard La Forest, former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
* Keith Lindblom
* John Nicholl
* Stephen Richards, Lord Justice
* John Silvester, Recorder of London
* Mark Warby, judge
* James Whitelocke

## Clergy
### Saints, blessed and archbishops of Canterbury

| Name | M | Degree | Notes |
| Edmund Campion (F) | c. 1557 | - | Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, martyr and saint |
| Edward James | c. 1575 | - | Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint |
| William Juxon (F) | 1598 | BCL (1603), DCL (1621) | President of St John's (1621-1633); Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1626-1628); Lord High Treasurer (1636-1641); 77th Archbishop of Canterbury (1660-1663) |
| William Laud (F) | 1589 | BA (1594), MA (1598) | President of St John's (1611–1621); Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1630–1641); 76th Archbishop of Canterbury (1633–1645) |
| John Roberts | 1596 | - | Roman Catholic Benedictine monk, priest, martyr and saint |

### Other bishops

* Alfred Averill, Archbishop of New Zealand
* Paul Barber
* John Buckeridge
* Robert Hay, Bishop of Buckingham
* Kenneth Kirk
* Peter Mews
* Hugh Montefiore
* Edwin Morris, Archbishop of Wales
* Peter Selby
* David Wilcox
* Kenneth Woollcombe

### Other priests

* Frederick Copleston
* Edward Drax Free
* Vicesimus Knox
* Peter Thomson
* George Austen
* James Austen
* Henry Thomas Austen

## Journalists and writers

* Mark Abley, poet and journalist
* Kingsley Amis, novelist
* Daniel Blythe, author
* Ivor Bulmer-Thomas
* David Chater, award-winning British television foreign correspondent
* Tom Chatfield, author
* Victoria Coren Mitchell
* Edmund Crispin
* Evan Davis, journalist
* Janine Gibson, journalist
* Robert Graves, poet
* John Lawrence Hammond, journalist and editor
* A. E. Housman, classical scholar, and poet
* Simon Jack, BBC Business Editor, Presenter of Today Programme
* Simon Jenkins, journalist and editor
* John Lanchester
* Philip Larkin, poet and librarian
* Bronwen Maddox
* Vic Marks, journalist and cricketer
* Timothy Mo, novelist
* Musa Okwonga, writer
* Peter Preston, journalist and editor
* Alan Ross
* Hugh Schofield, BBC Paris correspondent
* James Shirley
* J. K. Stanford
* D. J. Taylor
* James Townley
* Jason Webster
* Norman Webster, journalist and editor
* John Wain
* Henry Willobie, poet
* Jonathan Wright, journalist and translator

## Sports

* Sue Day, England rugby captain
* John Davis, Welsh cricketer
* William Evans, Welsh international footballer
* Mike Fitzpatrick, footballer
* Chris Penny, American rower, 1988 Blue Boat, Olympic silver medallist
* Barbara Slater, sports producer and gymnast
* Chris Tavare, England international cricketer
* John Young, cricketer
| Name | M | Degree | Notes |
| Jennifer Howitt Browning | 2005 | MPhil Development Studies (2007) | Rhodes Scholar. 2004 Athens Paralympics Wheelchair Basketball Gold medal for the USA. |
| Rosara Joseph | 2006 | BCL, DPhil (2011) | Rhodes Scholar from New Zealand. 2005 Oceania Mountain Biking champion. 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games Silver medal. 2008 Beijing Olympics Women's Mountainbike Cross-Country 9th. |
| Annette Salmeen | 1997 | DPhil Biochemistry (2001) | Rhodes Scholar. 1996 Atlanta Olympics Swimming (800m freestyle relay) Gold medal for the USA. |

## Others

* Robert G. W. Anderson, museum curator
* Cyril Beeson, entomologist and forest conservator
* Arthur Bell, consultant paediatrician
* Trevor Bench-Capon, computer scientist
* Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, scientist
* Paula Booth - Daniell Chair of Chemistry at King's College London
* Ian Bostridge, tenor
* Christopher Brewin
* Hector Catling, archaeologist
* Winston Churchill
* Jared Cohen, Director of Google Ideas think-tank
* John Cottingham
* Reginald de Koven
* Andrew Dilnot
* Henry Ellis, librarian
* Reginald John Farrer
* Antony Flew, philosopher
* Robert Fludd
* Paul Grice, philosopher (fellow 1939–1967, not an alumnus)
* Ronald Gurner
* Tyrone Guthrie, theatre director and producer
* Peter Hacker, philosopher (fellow 1966–2006, not an alumnus)
* Ralph Hartley
* Paul M. Hayes (1942–1995), historian
* Eric Heaton
* Gilbert Highet
* Alastair Humphreys, adventurer
* Roger Howell, Jr.
* Frank Kearton, Baron Kearton
* Patrick Kennedy (actor)
* Riad al Khouri, Economist; former Dean of the Business School, Lebanese French University, Iraq; currently principal, Discover Studies, Jordan, and member of the board of directors, Global Challenges Forum, Switzerland
* Jason Kingsley, Rebellion Developments co-founder
* Belinda Kirk, explorer
* Alexander Leeper, Australian educationist
* Henry Longueville Mansel
* Mohammed Mamdani, social entrepreneur
* Sir John Marsham, 1st Baronet
* Edward Maufe, architect and designer
* Gilbert Murray, classical scholar
* Yannis Philippakis, lead singer of British indie rock band Foals (band)
* Alfred W. Pollard
* Quilla Constance, aka Jennifer Allen, fine artist
* William Mitchell Ramsay
* Sanjeev Sanyal, writer and economist
* Faiza Shaheen, economist
* Peter Frederick Strawson, philosopher
* Jethro Tull, agriculturist
* Sundeep Waslekar, Founder and President of Strategic Foresight Group think-tank
* Stephen Wolfram
* Bernard Taylor (Banker)

## Fictional

* Inspector Morse, fictional TV crime series character, suggested to have won a scholarship