# List of people associated with Wadham College, Oxford

This is a list of Wadham College, Oxford people, including alumni, Fellows, Deans and Wardens of the College. An alphabetical list of alumni of Wadham college can be found here.

## Alumni
### Academics

* Martin Aitken, archaeometrist
* Amir Attaran, epidemiologist
* Charles Badham, classics scholar
* Owen Barfield, philosopher, author, poet, and critic
* William Bayliss, physiologist
* Edward Spencer Beesly, historian and positivist
* Henry de Beltgens Gibbins, economic historian
* Richard Bentley, scholar and critic
* James Theodore Bent, explorer and archaeologist
* Bernard Bergonzi, literary scholar
* George Fielding Blandford, psychiatrist
* Nathan Bodington, first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds
* Dietrich von Bothmer, art historian
* Harvie Branscomb, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University
* William Brown, Master of Darwin College, Cambridge
* Alan Bullock, historian of Nazi Germany
* Colin Campbell, geologist
* Allan Chapman, historian of science
* Oliver Carmichael, 3rd Chancellor of Vanderbilt University and 20th President of the University of Alabama
* Anthony Cheetham, materials scientist
* Robert Caesar Childers, Pali language scholar
* Pamela Clemit, literary critic
* Richard Congreve, philosopher and positivist
* Steven Connor, literary scholar
* Athelstan John Cornish-Bowden, biochemist
* Sedley Cudmore, economist and Chief Statistician of Canada
* Peter Day, inorganic chemist
* Emma Dench, classicist
* Frederick Augustus Dixey, entomologist
* Barrie Dobson, historian
* Nakdimon S. Doniach, lexicographer and linguist
* Edward Gordon Duff, bibliographer and librarian
* William Rickatson Dykes, botanist
* Marcus du Sautoy, mathematician
* Peter Edwards, historian
* Henry Emeleus, petrologist
* John Eveleigh, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford
* George Stanley Farnell, classist
* Roderick Floud, economic historian
* E.B. Ford, ecological geneticist
* Sandra Fredman, Professor of Law
* David B. Frohnmayer, President of the University of Oregon and politician
* Philip A. Gale, chemist
* Ian Grant, physicist
* Harry George Grey, theologian and Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
* Thomas Guidott, physician
* Jeffrey Hackney, legal scholar
* Edith Hall, classics scholar
* Avraham Harman, diplomat and President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
* James Harris, legal scholar, Professor of the London School of Economics and Fellow of the British Academy
* James Harris, grammarian
* Robert Hooke, architect, natural philosopher, scientist, polymath, co-founder of the Royal Society
* Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, architect
* Ian Grant, physicist
* Ivor Grattan-Guinness, historian of mathematics
* Jennifer Ingleheart, classicist
* Gilbert Ironside the younger, Bishop of Hereford and Warden of Wadham
* James Jago, physician
* Frank Jevons, Vice-Chancellor of Durham University
* Benjamin Kennicott, Hebrew scholar
* Richard S. Lambert, biographer and broadcaster
* John Leslie, philosopher
* David MacDonald, biologist and conservationist
* Ruth Mace, evolutionary anthropologist
* Sally Mapstone, Principal of the University of St Andrews
* P. J. Marshall, historian of the British empire in the 18th century
* John Mayow, chemist, physician, and physiologist
* Alister McGrath, Christian apologist and theologian
* Frank McLynn, historian and biographer
* Nevil Story Maskelyne, geologist and politician
* Leslie Mitchell, historian
* Charles Morton, educator
* Peter Nailor, civil servant, intellectual and professor
* William Neile, mathematician
* Farhan Nizami, scholar in Islamic studies
* Phoebe Okowa, Member, International Law Commission, 2023-
* Tony Orchard, inorganic chemist
* John Parsons, Master of Balliol College, Oxford and Bishop of Peterborough
* William Plenderleath, antiquarian
* Josephine Crawley Quinn, ancient historian and archaeologist
* Barnaby Raine, intellectual historian and political commentator
* P. J. Rhodes, ancient historian
* Stuart J. Russell, computer scientist
* Phillipp Schofield, historian
* Henry Albert Schultens, linguist
* Walter Shirley, priest and historian
* Tom Solomon, neurologist
* Thomas Sprat, divine and co-founder of the Royal Society
* Benjamin Parsons Symons, Warden of Wadham
* Richard W. Tsien, electric engineer and neurobiologist
* Wilson Dallam Wallis, anthropologist
* Ethelbert Dudley Warfield, historian and academic administrator
* Rex Warner, classicist, writer and translator
* William Whyte, historian
* Donald Wiseman, biblical scholar and Assyriologist
* Sir Christopher Wren, architect and co-founder of the Royal Society

### Authors, artists, broadcasters and entertainers

* Diran Adebayo, novelist
* Monica Ali, novelist
* Hossein Amini, film director and screenplay writer
* Lindsay Anderson, film director
* Timothy Bateson, actor
* Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
* Melvyn Bragg, television broadcaster and writer
* Simon Brett, writer
* Jess Cartner-Morley, fashion editor of The Guardian newspaper
* Alan Connor, journalist and television presenter
* David Constantine, poet and translator
* Alan Coren, comic writer
* Robert Crampton, Times journalist
* Cecil Day-Lewis, former Poet Laureate
* Sophie Duker, stand-up comedian and writer
* James Flint, writer
* Isabel Fonseca, writer
* Neil Forrester, artist and cast member of The Real World TV show (London series)
* Tim Franks, journalist
* Jonathan Freedland, journalist
* Peter Gammond, music critic
* Amelia Gentleman, journalist
* Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet and playwright
* John Gross, author and literary critic
* Tom Gross, journalist and political commentator
* Francis Wrigley Hirst, journalist
* Montague Haltrecht, writer and literary critic
* Tom Holt, author of humorous and military fantasies, and of historical fiction
* Evan Jones, Jamaican screenwriter and poet
* Felicity Jones, actress
* Reginald Victor Jones, physicist, scientific military intelligence expert and writer
* Michael Kenyon, novelist
* Hari Kunzru, novelist
* Tim McInnerny, actor and comedian
* Patrick Marber, comedian and playwright
* Sharon Mascall, journalist, broadcaster and writer
* Jodhi May, actress
* Anne McElvoy, journalist and broadcaster
* Robert McGill, writer and literary critic
* Hilary Menos, poet
* Roger Mosey, BBC executive, Director of London 2012 Olympic Games coverage
* Neil Nightingale, director the BBC Natural History Unit from 2003 to 2009
* David Patrikarakos, author and journalist
* Iain Pears, novelist
* Laurie Penny, author and social activist
* Rosamund Pike, actress
* William Rayner, novelist
* Tony Richardson, English theatre and Academy Award-winning film director and producer
* Stevan Riley, film director
* Jude Rogers, judge
* Michael Rosen, poet and broadcaster
* Joshua Rozenberg, legal commentator and journalist
* Carr Scrope, versifier
* Peter Sculthorpe, composer
* Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, wit, dramatist and politician
* Fatemeh Shams, Award-winning poet and professor of Persian literature at University of Pennsylvania
* Mary Ann Sieghart, former assistant editor of The Times
* Leonard Strong, novelist, critic, historian and poet
* Paul Vaughan, journalist
* William Walsh, poet and critic
* Irving Wardle, theatre critic
* John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, libertine poet and protégé of King Charles II
* Humbert Wolfe, poet

### Clergy

* Peter Allan, monk and Principal of College of the Resurrection
* Francis Bampfield, non-conformist minister
* Samuel Barnett, social reformer and Canon of Westminster Abbey
* Edward Bidwell, Bishop of Ontario
* Henry Bowlby, Bishop of Coventry
* Cornelius Burges, minister
* Richard William Church, churchman and writer
* John Erskine Clarke, clergyman
* Thomas Crofts, clergyman
* Cecil de Carteret, Bishop of Jamaica
* Robert Deakin, clergyman
* Joseph Diggle, clergyman, politician and public servant
* Edward Eddrup, clergyman and principal of Salisbury Theological College
* Edward Feild, clergyman
* Giles Fraser, Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral
* Campbell Hone, Bishop of Wakefield
* Walsham How, clergyman and botanist
* William Henry Jackson, priest, missionary and inventor of Burmese Braille
* Francis Jayne, clergyman
* Hewlett Johnson, clergyman, "Red Dean of Canterbury"
* Francis Kilvert, clergyman and diarist
* Alexander Mackonochie, mission priest
* Thomas Manton, clergyman
* Edward Garrard Marsh, poet and clergyman
* John Medley, first Bishop of Fredericton
* Wilfrid Oldaker, schoolmaster and Precentor of Christ Church, Oxford
* Reginald Owen, Primate of New Zealand
* Samuel Parker, clergyman
* Charles Ranken, clergyman and chess master
* William Jenkins Rees, clergyman and antiquary
* William Skinner, bishop of Aberdeen
* Edward Stone, clergyman and natural philosopher
* Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury
* Richard Willis, Bishop
* Richard Woodward, Bishop Cloyne
* Foster Barham Zincke, clergyman, traveller, and antiquary

### Politicians and civil servants

* Tom Allen, US Representative from Maine
* William Shepherd Allen, UK and New Zealand politician
* Michael Alison, politician
* Anita Anand, Canadian politician and Minister of Public Services and Procurement
* Edward Ashe, English politician and Father of the House
* Michael Bates, Baron Bates, politician
* Thomas Charles Baring, politician
* Richard Barnett, politician
* Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury, former Lord Chancellor
* Marco Biagi, Scottish National Party politician
* Robert Blake, Cromwell's admiral
* David Blatherwick, diplomat
* John Bluett, politician
* John Bramston the Younger, politician
* Norman Brook, 1st Baron Normanbrook, civil servant, Cabinet Secretary 1947-1962
* William Burge, Attorney General of Jamaica and anti-abolitionist
* Edward Cakobau, Deputy Prime Minister of Fiji
* Hugh Childers, statesman
* Charles Delacourt-Smith, Baron Delacourt-Smith, politician
* H. R. P. Dickson, colonial political officer and author
* Joseph Diggle, clergyman and politician
* John Dyson, Lord Dyson, judge and Master of the Rolls
* Derek Enright, politician
* Vincent Evans, Judge on the European Court of Human Rights
* Charles Fane, 1st Viscount Fane, politician
* Steven Fisher, diplomat
* Bernard Floud, politician
* Peter Floud, civil servant
* Michael Foot, politician
* William Fox, premier of New Zealand
* Sydney Giffard, diplomat
* Penaia Ganilau, former Governor General and President of Fiji
* Badlishah of Kedah, Sultan of Kedah
* Eileen E. Gillese, judge
* Neil Gerrard, politician
* Tuanku Abdul Halim, Sultan of Kedah, The King of Malaysia
* Robert Hannigan, cryptographer and civil servant
* John Hanson, diplomat
* Joseph Hardcastle, politician
* John Hardres, politician
* Avraham Harman, Israeli diplomat
* Evan Harris, former Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West and Abingdon
* George Harrison, politician
* Charles Hodson, Baron Hodson, judge
* Marc Holland, Administrator of Ascension Island
* Sir Edmund Isham, 6th Baronet, politician
* Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham, politician
* Thomas Lewis, politician
* Richard Lloyd, royalist
* Mark Logan, MP for Bolton North East
* John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace, Whig politician
* Eric Macfadyen, politician
* Kenneth Maddocks, former Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Fiji
* Kamisese Mara, former Prime Minister and President of Fiji
* Keir Mather, current 'Baby of the House' and Labour MP for Selby and Ainsty
* Duncan Menzies, Lord Menzies, judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland
* Peter Milliken, Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
* T. E. Moir, civil servant
* James Morris, Conservative MP for Halesowen and Rowley Regis
* Robert Moses, city planner
* James Munby, judge
* James Murray, politician
* Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan, judge, first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life (1994–1997), Chancellor of the University of Essex (1997–2002)
* Feroz Khan Noon, Prime Minister of Pakistan
* Arthur Onslow, former Speaker of the House of Commons
* William Palmes, politician
* Gopalaswami Parthasarathy, Indian diplomat and journalist
* Edward Phelips, politician
* Carew Raleigh, politician
* Emma Reynolds, MP for Wolverhampton North East
* Colin Thornton-Kemsley, National Liberal politician
* Sir Thomas Rich, 1st Baronet, politician
* Denys Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong
* Adair Roche, Baron Roche, law lord
* Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Wytley, politician
* Philip Rycroft, civil servant
* Wasim Sajjad, two-time interim President of Pakistan and former Chairman Senate
* John C. Sherburne, Vermont politician
* John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, former Lord Chancellor
* F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, former Lord Chancellor
* Simon Smith, diplomat
* Thomas Strangways, Father of the House
* Lala Sukuna, Fijian chief
* Randolph Vigne, South African anti-apartheid activist
* K. N. Wanchoo, Chief Justice of India
* Eugene Wason, Scottish politician
* Geoffrey Whiskard, diplomat
* Daryl Williams, Attorney-General for Australia
* Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, politician, topographer and author
* Hugh Wyndham, judge
* Thomas Wyndham (of Witham Friary), politician
* Thomas Wyndham, 1st Baron Wyndham, Irish lawyer and politician, former Lord Chancellor of Ireland
* Sir Wadham Wyndham, judge
* Sir Peter William Youens, former Deputy Chief Secretary of Nyasaland (today Malawi) and secretary to the Prime Minister and the Cabinet of Malawi

### Other

* Noel Agazarian, World War II fighter ace
* Simon Anholt, political scientist, policy advisor
* E. W. Bastard, cricketer
* Arthur Berry, footballer
* Alan Blackshaw, mountaineer, skier and civil servant
* William Bromet, rugby player
* Brian Burnett, Royal Air Force and Commander-in-Chief of British Far East Command
* Sir Michael Checkland, former Director-General of the BBC
* John Cooke, prosecutor of Charles I
* Warren East, businessman, chief executive of ARM Holdings plc
* William Freke, mystic
* C. B. Fry, sportsman
* George Hogg, adventurer
* George Hastings, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, nobleman
* Richard Koch, management consultant
* David Levin, entrepreneur
* Emily Ludolf, amateur chef, finalist on BBC 2's Masterchef, 2008
* John MacBain, businessman
* Paul McMahon, cricketer
* Algernon Methuen, publisher
* Herbert Page, cricketer
* Nathaniel Rothschild, 5th Baron Rothschild, British financier and only son of Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild
* Edward Saatchi, entrepreneur
* Chris Saunders, cricketer and headmaster
* Steven Skala, banker
* Dr Richard Stone OBE, social campaigner, philanthropist, anti-racism and interfaith activist

## Fellows and honorary Fellows

* Alfred Ayer, logical positivist
* Michael R. Ayers, philosopher
* John Bamborough, scholar of English literature and founding Principal of Linacre College, Oxford
* John Bell, Professor of Law and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge
* T.J. Binyon, Russian literature scholar and crime writer
* Ian Brownlie, barrister and academic in international law
* Philip Bullock, Professor of Russian Literature and Music
* Peter Carter, legal scholar
* Allan Chapman, historian of science
* Richard Congreve, philosopher
* Charles Coulson, applied mathematician, theoretical chemist and religious author
* Peter Derow, historian of ancient Greece and Rome
* Frederick Augustus Dixey, former President of the Royal Entomological Society of London
* Terry Eagleton, Marxist literary theorist
* Eprime Eshag, Keynesian economist
* Jeffrey Hackney, legal scholar
* Andrew Hodges, mathematician, author and Dean of Wadham College
* Humphrey Hody, clergyman and theologian
* Thomas Graham Jackson, architect
* Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, Churchill's scientific adviser during the Second World War
* Nicholas Lloyd, cleric and lexicographer
* David Mabberley, botanist, educator and writer
* Edward Arthur Milne, astrophysicist and mathematician
* Ted Nelson, American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology
* Bernard O'Donoghue, Irish poet
* Roger Penrose, mathematical physicist and philosopher
* Benjamin Bickley Rogers, classical scholar
* Richard Sharpe, historian of medieval England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
* Marcus du Sautoy, mathematician, writer, television presenter
* Edward Stone, Rector who discovered the active ingredient of Aspirin
* John Swinton, writer, academic, Church of England clergyman and orientalist
* Joseph Trapp, clergyman, academic, poet and pamphleteer
* Theodore Wade-Gery, classical scholar, historian and epigrapher
* Joseph White, orientalist and theologian
* John Williams, Welsh lawyer and writer
* R. J. P. (Bob) Williams, inorganic chemist
* Robert J.C. Young, post-colonial theorist, cultural critic, and historian

### Honorary Fellows

* Abdul Halim of Kedah, Sultan of Kedah
* Sir Franklin Berman, barrister, judge and arbitrator
* Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, television broadcaster
* Sir Brian Burnett, Air Chief Marshal
* Sir Neil Chalmers, zoologist and former Warden of Wadham
* Sir Michael Checkland, former Director-General of the BBC
* Peter Day, inorganic chemist
* John Dyson, Lord Dyson, Master of the Rolls
* Sir Roderick Floud, economic historian
* Sandra Fredman, academic lawyer
* Sir Sydney Giffard, diplomat and author
* Allan Gotlieb, Canadian public servant and author
* Robert Hannigan, former director of GCHQ
* Allen Hill, bioinorganic chemist
* Jeremy R. Knowles, former professor of chemistry at Harvard University
* Lee Shau-kee, businessman
* David Malcolm, lawyer
* Sally Mapstone, principal of the University of St Andrews
* P. J. Marshall, historian of the British Empire
* Nevil Story Maskelyne, geologist and politician
* Peter Milliken, lawyer and politician
* Claus Moser, Baron Moser, statistician and public servant
* Sir James Munby, judge
* Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan, judge, first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life (1994–1997), Chancellor of the University of Essex (1997–2002)
* Ashraf Pahlavi, Princess of Iran
* Sir Denys Roberts, former British colonial official and judge
* Sir Christopher Rose, former judge
* Wasim Sajjad, Pakistani lawyer and legal educator
* Sir David Smith, botanist
* Kathleen Sullivan, lawyer
* Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury
* Robert J. C. Young, philosopher and historian

## Wardens

The Warden is the college's principal, responsible for its academic leadership, chairing its governing body, and representing it in the outside world. Below is a list of the Wardens of Wadham college in chronological order. Their time in office is given in parentheses.
* Robert Wright (20 April-20 July 1613), Bishop of Bristol and Bishop of Lichfield
* John Fleming (1613–1617)
* William Smyth (1617–1635)
* Daniel Estcot (1635–1644)
* John Pitt (1644–1648)
* John Wilkins (1648–1659), Bishop, scholar and co-founder of the Royal Society
* Walter Blandford (1659–1665), Bishop of Oxford, 1665, Bishop of Worcester, 1671
* Gilbert Ironside the younger (1665–1689), Bishop of Bristol, 1689, Bishop of Hereford, 1691
* Thomas Dunster (1689–1719)
* William Baker (1719–1724), Bishop of Bangor, 1724, Bishop of Norwich, 1727
* Robert Thistlethwayte (1724–1739), clergyman, fled to France in 1737 after a homosexual scandal
* Samuel Lisle (1739–1744), Bishop of St. Asaph, 1744, Bishop of Norwich, 1748
* George Wyndham (1744–1777)
* James Gerard (1777–1783)
* John Wills (1783–1806), administrator, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1792–1796)
* William Tournay (1806–1831)
* Benjamin Parsons Symons (1831–1871), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1844–1848)
* John Griffiths (1871–1881), Keeper of the Archives (1857–1885)
* George E. Thorley (1881–1903)
* Patrick A. Wright-Henderson (1903–1913)
* Joseph Wells (1913–1927), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1923–1926)
* John F. Stenning (1927–1938)
* Maurice Bowra (1938–1970), classical scholar and academic, known for his wit
* Stuart Hampshire (1970–1984), philosopher and literary critic
* Claus Moser, Baron Moser (1984–1993), statistician and civil servant
* John Flemming (1993–2004), economist, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Fellow of the British Academy
* Neil Chalmers (2004–2012), former Director of the Natural History Museum
* Ken Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of River Glaven (2012–2021), former Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales (2003–2008)
* Robert Hannigan (2021–present)

## Deans

Responsible for various aspects of the day-to-day student life of the College, the Dean has authority in matters of discipline concerning the behaviour of individuals or groups. Below is a list of the Deans of Wadham college in chronological order, together with their time in office.
* John Pitt 1613, 1616–17
* John Goodridge 1613, 1618
* Matthew Osborne 1614, 1619
* Daniel Estcot 1615, Warden 1635–1644
* Ralph Flexney 1620
* Alexander Huish 1621
* Ignatius Jordan 1622
* Amias Hext 1622–23
* William Boswell 1624, 1626
* Francis Strode 1625
* Gilbert Drake 1627–28
* William Turner 1629–31
* John Warren 1632–33
* Tristram Sugge 1635, 1636
* Leonard Simons 1637, 1644–1645, 1647
* Robert Chapline 1638–39
* Richard Goodridge 1641
* George Ashwell 1642–43
* Richard Knightbridge 1646, resigned 1647 and replaced by Leonard Simons
* Anthony Nourse 1647
* Samuel Lee 1653
* John Ball 1659, died 1660 and replaced by William Turges
* Walter Pope 1660
* Daniel Estcott 1661
* Thomas Jeamson 1662, 1667
* John Chase 1663, 1671
* Brian Cave 1665, 1668
* Nathaniel Salter 1669
* William Thornton 1670
* George Fletcher 1672, 1676, died 1676 and replaced by William Shortgrave
* John Ludwell 1673–1674
* Thomas Lessey 1675
* Robert Pitt 1677
* Robert Balch 1678
* William Latton 1679
* William Gould 1681
* George Harding 1683, replaced by Thomas Lyndesay
* Thomas Pigott 1684
* Alexander Crooke 1685
* Thomas Lidgould 1686
* Thomas Dunster 1687
* Humphrey Hody 1688
* Robert Doyley 1689
* William Hunt 1719
* John Leaves 1720, 1725, 1727
* Robert Nash 1721
* George Bowditch 1722, 1726
* Philip Speke 1723–24
* Edwyn Sandys 1728
* Stopford Jacks c.1925
* John Frederick Stenning, Warden 1927–1938
* Maurice Bowra c.1922–1938, Warden 1938–70
* A. J. Ayer 1945, philosopher
* John Bamborough 1947–54, founding Principal of Linacre College, Oxford
* T.J. Binyon ?–1976 & 1980s, literary scholar and writer
* David Mabberley 1976–82 and 1991–96, botanist and writer
* James Morwood 2000–2006, Grocyn Lecturer in Classics
* Andrew Hodges 2011–2014, mathematician and writer
* Martin Bureau, 2014–2016, Lindemann Fellow and Tutor in Physics, astrophysicist
* Claudia Pazos Alonso, 2016–2019, Fellow and Tutor in Portuguese
* Andrew D Farmery 2019–2022, Sir Samuel Scott of Yews Fellow and Tutor in Medicine; Professor of Anaesthetics
* Sarah J. Cullinan Herring 2022-present, Hody Fellow and Tutor in Classics.