# List of Oxfordian theory supporters

This is a list of supporters of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship, which was first promulgated in 1920.
* Percy Allen — journalist, theatre historian
* Mark Anderson — journalist, researcher, author, astrophysicist
* Charles Wisner Barrell — researcher, author
* Charles Beauclerk, Earl of Burford — writer
* Charles Sidney Beauclerk — Jesuit priest
* Michael Delahoyde — professor of English, Washington State University
* Louis P. Bénézet — American school reformer
* Harry Blackmun — U.S. Supreme Court Justice
* Marjorie Bowen — British historian, biographer, novelist
* Gelett Burgess — author, critic, poet, artist
* John Byrne — British-born Canadian-American comic book artist and writer
* Michael Chiklis — actor
* Montagu William Douglas — soldier and colonial administrator.
* Ren Draya — professor of English & communications, Blackburn College
* Roland Emmerich — film director, screenwriter, producer; producer and director of Anonymous (2011)
* William Farina — biographer, nonfiction researcher and author, essayist
* Bert Fields — lawyer and writer
* Sigmund Freud — pioneer of psychoanalysis
* Michael H. Hart — astrophysicist, author of The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
* Warren Hope — academic, university English professor, author
* Christmas Humphreys — British barrister, judge, author, Buddhist scholar
* Jeremy Irons — actor
* Sir Derek Jacobi — Shakespearean actor, director
* Richard Kennedy — American children's book writer
* Felicia Hardison Londré — curators’ professor of theatre at the University of Missouri-Kansas City
* Lynne Kositsky — Canadian author of poetry and young adult historical fiction
* J. Thomas Looney — British school teacher, researcher, author
* David McCullough — historian, author, biographer
* Paul Nitze — longtime high-ranking U.S. government official and Presidential advisor, ambassador
* Charlton Greenwood Ogburn — lawyer
* Charlton Ogburn — investigative journalist, researcher, author
* John Orloff — screenwriter
* Sir Roger Penrose — mathematician, Nobel Laureate in Physics
* Anne Pluto — professor of literature and theatre, Lesley University
* Enoch Powell - politician
* Keanu Reeves - actor
* Gerald Henry Rendall — professor of Greek
* Anne Rice — author
* Mark Rylance — Shakespearean actor and director, director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre 1995–2005
* Don Rubin — professor emeritus of theatre at York University in Toronto; Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship vice president
* Antonin Scalia — U.S. Supreme Court Justice
* Joseph Sobran — journalist, author, researcher
* John Paul Stevens — U.S. Supreme Court Justice
* Roger Stritmatter — professor of humanities at Coppin State University and the general editor of Brief Chronicles
* Peter A. Sturrock — British astrophysicist, Stanford University professor of applied physics, Arctowski Medalist, author of AKA Shakespeare: A Scientific Approach to the Authorship Question
* Patrick Walker (40 Watt Sun) — musician, songwriter.
* Bernard Mordaunt Ward — military officer, author
* Alexander Waugh — writer
* Douglas Wilson - CREC pastor, theologian, social critic
* Daniel L. Wright — Professor of English, Concordia University, Portland; Director of the Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre
* Michael York — actor