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

A list of alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford.
The list includes alumni associated with the Delegacy for Unattached Students, the Delegacy for Non-Collegiate Students and St Catherine's Society prior to the official founding of the college.

## Academics

* R. J. Q. Adams – American historian who specializes in the history of Great Britain
* Christopher Bishop – Chief Research Scientist at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, and Chair of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh
* Tim Brighouse – educationist, previously Schools Commissioner for London
* Ben Britton - materials scientist and engineer
* Andrew Stewart Coats - cardiologist
* John Cornforth – 1975 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
* Denis Cosgrove – former Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles
* Chris Greening - biochemist and microbiologist
* Carl Marci – American neuroscientist
* Mark Miodownik – materials scientist, engineer, broadcaster
* Seamus Perry - lecturer in English Literature
* Gene Sharp – leading theoretician on nonviolent struggle
* John Vane – 1992 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
* Rudolf Vleeskruijer – founder of the English Institute of the University of Utrecht
* John E. Walker – 1997 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
* Paul Wilmott – British mathematician and quantitative analyst
* David Yates – previous Warden of Robinson College, Cambridge

## Public life

* Benazir Bhutto – Pakistani politician, elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the College 1989
* John Birt – former Director-General of the BBC
* Simon Bridges - New Zealand politician, previously Leader of the Opposition (National Party)
* Christian Cole - barrister, first black graduate of the University of Oxford
* Alexander Curtis - youngest mayor in the United Kingdom
* Barun De – historian; formerly Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission
* Clark Kent Ervin – first Inspector General of the US Department of Homeland Security
* Timothy Garden, Baron Garden – Liberal Democrat
* Farooq Leghari – former President of Pakistan
* Peter Mandelson – architect of "New Labour", several times a UK Cabinet minister, and Trade Commissioner in the Barroso Commission 2004–2008
* Hiren Mukherjee – Member of Parliament, Calcutta North East, 1952–77
* Richard Newby, Baron Newby – Liberal Democrat politician
* Bob Peirce – diplomat
* Yannis Stournaras - Governor of the Bank of Greece
* H. S. Suhrawardy – first Bengali Prime Minister of Pakistan
* Eric Williams – Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

## Religion

* Alan Chesters – Church of England Bishop of Blackburn
* Audrey Elkington – Archdeacon of Bodmin

## Writers

* Clive Barnes – theatre critic
* Mark Beech – writer and broadcaster, rock critic
* Michael Billington – critic, author and radio presenter
* Euros Bowen – Welsh poet
* Jeremy Duns – British author
* Adam Foulds – novelist and poet
* Joseph Heller – American author and playwright; Catch-22
* Ernest Hilbert – American poet, book critic, opera librettist, and editor
* Sam Llewellyn – author
* Chris Maslanka – writer and broadcaster
* David Rudkin – playwright
* Paul Spike – author, editor and journalist
* Maurice Wiggin - journalist and author
* Simon Winchester – author and historian; The Surgeon of Crowthorne; The Map that Changed the World
* Jeanette Winterson – author of books including Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Sexing the Cherry, Written on the Body, The World and Other Places
* P. C. Wren – novelist, author of Beau Geste

## Performing arts

* Alice Eve – actress
* Emilia Fox – actress
* Grant Gee – film director, best known for the documentary Meeting People is Easy
* Guthrie Govan - musician
* Richard Herring – comedian
* Amara Karan - actress
* Olly Mann – podcaster and broadcaster, co-creator of the podcast Answer Me This!
* James Marsh - film director
* George Peck – theatre director, founder of the Oxford School of Drama
* Tom Phillips – artist and Royal Academician
* Alex Polizzi – television presenter
* Benjamin Ross – film director
* Mark Simpson – clarinetist, BBC Young Musician of the Year 2006, and BBC Young Composer of the Year 2006
* Ben Willbond - actor, star of Horrible Histories, Yonderland and Ghosts
* Emily Woof – actress
* Helen Zaltzman – podcaster, co-creator of the podcast Answer Me This!

## Business

* Victor Blank – Chairman of Lloyds TSB
* Hans-Paul Burkner – Chairman of The Boston Consulting Group
* J. Paul Getty – American mogul and philanthropist

## Sports

* Phil de Glanville – former England rugby captain
* David Hemery – Olympic gold medallist in athletics
* Christopher Liwski – American rower and 2005 Oxford Blue
* Matthew Pinsent – Quadruple Olympic gold medallist in rowing
* Colin Smith – British rower and three time Oxford Blue
* Andrew Triggs Hodge- British rower, double Olympic gold medallist
* Derek Wyatt – rugby international, former MP and founder, Oxford Internet Institute