# List of people from the University of Oxford in academic disciplines

This is a list of people from the University of Oxford in academic disciplines. Many were students at one (or more) of the colleges of the university, and others held fellowships at a college.
This list forms part of a series of lists of people associated with the University of Oxford; for other lists, please see the main article List of University of Oxford people.

## Law

* Kenneth Beaumont Chairman International Civil Aviation Organization 1946–57 (President Legal Committee 1954–57)
* James J. Busuttil (Linacre) Director, University of London Postgraduate Laws Programme
* Simon Chesterman (Rhodes Scholarship) Vice-provost at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and dean of NUS Faculty of Law and NUS College
* Sarah Cleveland (Lincoln) Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights at Columbia Law School
* Malcolm Evans (academic lawyer) (Regent's Park) Principal, Regent's Park College
* Allan Leal (Rhodes Scholarship) former Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School
* Phoebe Okowa (Wadham) Member, International Law Commission
* Surya Subedi (Exeter) United Nations Special Rapporteur for human rights in Cambodia

## Theology and the study of religions

* Marilyn McCord Adams (Christ Church)
* Henry Airay (St Edmund Hall and The Queen's)
* James Alison (Blackfriars) priest, Order of Preachers 1981-95
* Karen Armstrong (St Anne's)
* John Barton (Oriel) Oriel and Laing Professor, Canon Theologian Winchester Cathl, member of Gen Synod
* Gareth Bennett (New College)
* John Bowker (Worcester) Prof of RS Lancaster 1974-84, Trinity Coll Cambridge 1984-93, Gresham Prof of Divinity 1992-97
* George Granville Bradley (University) Headmaster of Marlborough College 1858-70, Dean of Westminster 1881-1902
* Reginald John Campbell (Christ Church) sometime minister of the City Temple
* Edward Cardwell (Brasenose)
* John Chapman (Christ Church) Abbot of Downside 1929-33
* William Robinson Clark (Hertford)
* William Cole (Corpus Christi)
* Kenneth Cracknell
* Herbert Danby (Keble and Christ Church)
* Douglas Davies
* Andrew Davison (Merton and Christ Church)
* Christopher Dawson (Trinity)
* John Day (Lady Margaret Hall)
* Gregory Dix (Merton and Keble)
* C. H. Dodd
* David L. Edwards (Magdalen and All Souls) Dean of Norwich 1978-83, Provost of Southwark 1983-94
* Robert Ellis (Regent's Park)
* Mark Elvins (Greyfriars)
* Austin Farrer (Balliol, St Edmund Hall, Trinity, and Keble)
* John Fell (Christ Church)
* Paul S. Fiddes (St Peter's and Regent's Park)
* Richard Fiddes
* Richard Finn (Corpus Christi)
* John Foxe (Brasenose and Magdalen)
* Richard Hurrell Froude (Oriel)
* Timothy Gorringe (St Edmund Hall and St John's) St Luke's Professor of Theological Studies University of Exeter 1998-
* Rose Graham (Somerville)
* Renn Dickson Hampden (Oriel, St Mary Hall, and Christ Church) bishop of Hereford 1847-68
* Daphne Hampson
* Tom Harpur
* James Hervey (Lincoln)
* George Hickes (St John's, Lincoln, Magdalen College, Magdalen Hall) dean of Worcester 1683-88, bp of Thetford 1694
* Carole Hillenbrand (Somerville)
* Leonard Hodgson (Hertford, St Edmund Hall, Magdalen, Christ Church) Regius Professor of Divinity 1944-1958
* Humphrey Hody (Wadham)
* Henry Scott Holland (Christ Church)
* S. H. Hooke (Jesus)
* Richard Hooker (Corpus Christi)
* Lawrence Humphrey (Magdalen)
* William Ince (Lincoln, Exeter, Christ Church)
* E. O. James (Exeter)
* David Jasper (St Stephen's House)
* Jerome of Prague
* Jeffrey John (Hertford, St Stephen's, Brasenose, Magdalen) Dean of St Albans 2003-
* John Keble (Corpus Christi, Oriel)
* Fergus Kerr (Blackfriars)
* Andrew Linzey (Blackfriars)
* John Lowe (Christ Church)
* Diarmaid MacCulloch (St Cross)
* John Macquarrie (Christ Church)
* Herbert McCabe (Blackfriars)
* Dan McClellan
* Alister McGrath (Merton, Wycliffe Hall, and Harris Manchester)
* Adam Marsh (Greyfriars)
* Geoffrey of Monmouth
* Max Müller (Christ Church and All Souls)
* Oliver O'Donovan (Christ Church and Wycliffe Hall)
* J. I. Packer (Corpus Christi and Wycliffe Hall)
* Peter Payne (St Edmund Hall)
* Robert Payne Smith (Christ Church) Dean of Canterbury 1871-95
* Arthur Peacocke (Exeter, St Peter's and Christ Church)
* Edward Pusey (Christ Church)
* Timothy Radcliffe (Blackfriars)
* William Salesbury
* Jane Shaw (Regent's Park and New College)
* Richard Smyth (Merton, Christ Church, and St Alban Hall)
* Janet Soskice (Somerville)
* Vincent Strudwick (Kellogg)
* Iain Torrance (Oriel) Moderator Gen Assembly Church of Scotland 2003-4, Pres Princeton Theological Seminary 2004-
* John Trevisa (The Queen's)
* William Tyndale (Hertford)
* Richard Ullerston (The Queen's)
* Peter Martyr Vermigli (Regius Professor of Divinity)
* Henry Wace (Brasenose)
* William Wall (The Queen's)
* Henry Wansbrough (St Benet's) Pontifical Biblical Commission 1996-, Prior of Norwich 2004-
* Keith Ward (Linacre and Christ Church)
* William George Ward (Christ Church and Lincoln)
* H. Wheeler Robinson (Mansfield and Regent's Park)
* Vernon White (Oriel and Wycliffe Hall)
* Maurice Wiles (Christ Church)
* William of Alnwick
* William of Ware
* John Williams (Jesus)
* John Wyclif (Balliol)
* Robert Charles Zaehner (Christ Church)

## Historians

* Harold Acton (Christ Church)
* J. J. G. Alexander
* Anne Applebaum (St Antony's
* Thomas Arnold (Corpus Christi)
* Timothy Garton Ash (Exeter and St Antony's)
* C.T. Atkinson (Magdalen and Exeter)
* Richard J. C. Atkinson (Magdalen)
* Geoffrey Barraclough (All Souls)
* Max Beloff, Baron Beloff (Corpus Christi, Nuffield, All Souls, and St Antony's)
* Mary Bennett (Somerville and St Hilda's)
* Robert Blake, Baron Blake (Christ Church)
* T. S. R. Boase (Magdalen, Hertford)
* Brian Bond (Worcester)
* Daniel J. Boorstin (Balliol)
* Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (Nuffield and Worcester)
* Archie Brown (St Antony's)
* Alan Bullock, Lord Bullock of Leafield (New College and St Catherine's)
* Colin Bundy (Merton, St Antony's, Kellogg, and Green)
* Montagu Burrows (All Souls)
* Muriel St. Clare Byrne (Somerville)
* William Camden (Merton, Broadgates Hall, Christ Church)
* Richard Carew (Christ Church)
* Humphrey Carpenter (Keble)
* Sir Raymond Carr (Christ Church, New College, All Souls and St Antony's)
* David G. Chandler (Keble)
* Allan Chapman (Wadham)
* George Clark (Balliol, All Souls, and Oriel)
* R. G. Collingwood (University and Pembroke)
* Alwyn Collinson
* Robert Conquest (Magdalen)
* Gordon A. Craig (Balliol)
* Mandell Creighton (Merton)
* Vincent Cronin (Trinity)
* Foster Cunliffe (New, All Souls)
* Robert Darnton
* Catherine Glyn Davies (Somerville)
* Godfrey Davies (Pembroke)
* Sir Rees Davies (All Souls)
* H. W. C. Davis (Balliol, All Souls, New Coll, Oriel) Ed DNB 1919-28, Prof History Manchester 1921-25, Oxford 1925-28
* R. H. C. Davis (Balliol and Merton) Prof of Medieval History Birmingham University 1970-84
* William Deakin (Christ Church, Wadham, St Antony’s)
* Christopher de Hamel Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, his book Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts won the Duff Cooper Prize for 2016 and the Wolfson History Prize for 2017
* P.G.M. Dickson (Worcester, Nuffield, St. Catherine’s)
* Michael Duffy (Lincoln)
* John Elliott (Oriel)
* Robert Ensor (Balliol and Corpus Christi)
* Richard J. Evans (Jesus and St Antony's) Regius Professor of Modern History and Chairman of the Faculty of History in the University of Cambridge
* Robert Evans (Oriel)
* Cyril Falls (All Souls)
* Keith Feiling (Balliol, Christ Church, and All Souls)
* Niall Ferguson (Magdalen)
* Felipe Fernández-Armesto (St Antony’s)
* Charles Harding Firth (Balliol, Pembroke, and All Souls)
* Herbert Fisher (New College) Member of Parliament 1916-26
* Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Somerville)
* Eric Foner (Oriel)
* Amanda Foreman (Lady Margaret Hall)
* Lady Antonia Fraser (Lady Margaret Hall)
* Sir Lawrence Freedman (Nuffield)
* Edward Augustus Freeman (Trinity)
* James Anthony Froude (Oriel and Exeter)
* Thomas Gaisford (Christ Church)
* V. H. Galbraith (Balliol)
* Henry de Beltgens Gibbins (Wadham)
* N. H. Gibbs (Magdalen, Merton, and All Souls)
* Robert Gildea (Merton, St. Antony’s)
* Lawrence Goldman (St Peter's) Editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004-
* Patrick Gordon Walker (Christ Church)
* Rose Graham (Somerville)
* Bernard Green (St Benet's)
* Alice Greenwood (Somerville)
* David Gregory (Christ Church)
* John Habakkuk (All Souls and Jesus)
* Irfan Habib (New College)
* John Rigby Hale (Jesus)
* Henry Hallam (Christ Church)
* Keith Hancock (Balliol and All Souls)
* Clarence H. Haring (New)
* John Hattendorf (Pembroke and St Antony’s)
* Agnes Headlam-Morley (Somerville)
* Peter Heather (New College and Worcester)
* Peter Heylin (St John's)
* Christopher Hibbert (Oriel)
* Christopher Hill (Balliol)
* Carole Hillenbrand (Somerville)
* Geoffrey Holmes (Pembroke)
* George Holmes (All Souls)
* Sir James Holt (Queens, Merton)
* Albert Hourani (Magdalen and St Antony's)
* Michael Howard (Christ Church, Oriel, and All Souls)
* Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (Hertford)
* E. F. Jacob (New, Christ Church, All Souls)
* Clay S. Jenkinson (University)
* Henry Kamen
* Roderick Kedward (St Antony's)
* Maurice Keen (Balliol, Queens)
* Elspeth Kennedy (Somerville and St Hilda's)
* Paul Kennedy (St Antony's)
* Walid Khalidi
* Christoph M. Kimmich
* Alan Kreider (Regent's Park)
* John La Nauze
* John Landers (Hertford and All Souls)
* Paul Langford (Hertford and Lincoln)
* Frances Lannon (Lady Margaret Hall)
* Peter L'Estrange (Campion Hall)
* Barbara Levick (St Hugh's and St Hilda's)
* M. D. R. Leys (Somerville)
* Suzannah Lipscomb (Lincoln and Balliol)
* Colin Lucas (Lincoln)
* Roderick MacFarquhar (Keble) Member of Parliament 1974-79
* Piers Mackesy (Oriel, Christ Church, and Pembroke)
* Alan Macfarlane (Worcester)
* John McManners (St Edmund Hall, Christ Church, All Souls)
* Margaret MacMillan (St. Antony's)
* Julia de Lacy Mann (Somerville)
* Margaret Mann Phillips (Somerville)
* J. A. R. Marriott (New, Worcester)
* Robert K. Massie
* John Masterman (Worcester and Christ Church)
* Henry Mayr-Harting (Merton, St Peter's, and Christ Church)
* Mark Mazower
* Josef W. Meri (Wolfson)
* Henry Hart Milman (Brasenose) Dean of St Paul's 1849-68
* Leslie Mitchell (University)
* William Mitford (Queen’s)
* Mary Caroline Moorman (Somerville)
* Samuel Eliot Morison (Christ Church)
* W. L. Morton
* Lewis Namier (Balliol)
* Edward Nares (Christ Church and Merton)
* Avner Offer (Nuffield and All Souls)
* Charles Oman (New College and All Souls)
* Robert O'Neill (All Souls)
* Ilan Pappe (St Antony's)
* G.C. Peden (Brasenose, All Souls, and St. Catherine’s)
* H. R. S. Pocock (Pembroke)
* Frederick York Powell (Christ Church and Oriel)
* Maurice Powicke (Balliol, Merton)
* J. O. Prestwich (Hertford, Queens)
* Michael Prestwich (Christ Church)
* Hastings Rashdall (Hertford, New)
* Gerald Reitlinger (Christ Church)
* Charles Grant Robertson (Hertford, All Souls)
* Jane Robinson (Somerville)
* N.A.M. Rodger (University and All Souls)
* Emma Georgina Rothschild (Somerville)
* J. Horace Round (Balliol)
* A. L. Rowse (Christ Church, Oriel, and All Souls)
* Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell (Merton)
* James R. Russell
* Dominic Sandbrook (Balliol)
* Frank Schulman (Manchester)
* Paul Slack (Exeter and Linacre)
* Frederick Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead (Christ Church)
* Goldwin Smith (Magdalen and University)
* R. W. Southern (Balliol, St. John’s, All Souls)
* Lawrence Stone (Christ Church, University, Wadham)
* Hew Strachan (All Souls)
* William Stubbs (Christ Church, Trinity, and Oriel) bishop of Chester 1884-89, bishop of Oxford 1889-1901
* Ernest Swinton (All Souls)
* Oliver Taplin (Magdalen)
* R. H. Tawney (Balliol) president of the Workers Educational Association 1928–44
* A. J. P. Taylor (Oriel)
* Keith Thomas (Balliol, All Souls, St John's, and Corpus Christi)
* Martin Thomas
* Elizabeth Topham Kennan
* Arnold J. Toynbee (Balliol)
* Rick Trainor (Merton, Nuffield, and Exeter)
* Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (Christ Church)
* Ann Trindade (Lady Margaret Hall)
* Kenneth Turpin (Oriel)
* Henry Halford Vaughan (Christ Church)
* J. M. Wallace-Hadrill (All Souls)
* Veronica Wedgwood (Lady Margaret Hall)
* R. B. Wernham (Exeter, Worcester)
* Geoffrey Wheatcroft (New College)
* Christopher Wickham (All Souls)
* Spenser Wilkinson (All Souls)
* Basil Williams (New)
* Kate Williams (Somerville)
* A. N. Wilson (New College and St Stephen's House)
* Mary Woodall (Somerville)
* Llewellyn Woodward (Corpus Christi, New, All Souls)
* Blair Worden (Pembroke, St. Edmund’s Hall)
* Lucy Worsley (New College)

## Classicists, Byzantinists and archaeologists

* J. L. Ackrill (St. John's)
* Michael Angold
* Polymnia Athanassiadi (Somerville)
* Charles Badham (Wadham)
* Richard Bentley (Wadham)
* John Boardman (Lincoln)
* William Borlase (Exeter)
* Glen Bowersock (Balliol) Professor of Classics and History Harvard University 1969-80, Professor of Ancient History Institute for Advanced Study 1980-2006
* Angus Bowie (Queen's)
* Maurice Bowra (New College and Wadham)
* Peter Brown (New College and All Soul's)
* P. A. Brunt (Oriel and Brasenose)
* William Camden (Magdalen, Christ Church, and the former Broadgates Hall)
* Averil Cameron (Somerville)
* Henry Chadwick (Christ Church)
* Dorothy Charlesworth (Somerville)
* Gillian Clark (Somerville)
* Alison E. Cooley (St. John's)
* Barbara Craig (Somerville)
* G. E. M. de Ste Croix (New College)
* A. M. Dale (Somerville)
* James Davidson
* Kenneth Dover (Balliol)
* Robinson Ellis (Balliol and Trinity)
* Elaine Fantham (Somerville)
* Jill Harries (Somerville)
* W. H. C. Frend (Keble)
* Helen Hughes-Brock (Somerville)
* Sarah C. Humphreys (Somerville)
* Edward Gibbon (Magdalen) Member of Parliament 1774-83
* Jasper Griffin (Balliol)
* Miriam T. Griffin (Somerville)
* Francis J. Haverfield
* Philip Hardie (Corpus Christi)
* Stephen Harrison (Balliol)
* Simon Hornblower (Oriel) Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History University College London
* Joan M. Hussey (St Hugh's)
* Benjamin Jowett (Balliol)
* Kathleen Kenyon (Somerville)
* Donna Carol Kurtz (Somerville)
* Francis Leddy (Exeter)
* Irene Lemos (Somerville)
* David Malcolm Lewis (Christ Church)
* Henry Liddell (Christ Church)
* Martin Litchfield West (St John's, University, and All Souls)
* William Walter Merry (Balliol)
* Fergus Millar (Brasenose)
* Margaret C. Miller
* Teresa Morgan (Oriel)
* Gilbert Murray (Christ Church)
* John Julius Norwich (John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich)
* Dimitri Obolensky (formerly Prince Dmitriy Dmitrievich Obolensky) (Christ Church)
* William Mitchell Ramsay (St John's, Exeter, and Lincoln)
* Joyce Reynolds (Somerville)
* P.J. Rhodes (Wadham)
* Nicholas Richardson (Magdalen, Pembroke, Trinity, Merton, and Greyfriars)
* Christina Riggs (Somerville)
* Katherine Routledge (Somerville)
* Erich Segal (Wolfson)
* William Young Sellar (Balliol and Oriel)
* R. R. R. Smith (Lincoln)
* John Sparrow (New College and All Souls)
* William Archibald Spooner (New College)
* Simon Swain (Pembroke, Wolfson)
* Ronald Syme (Oriel, Trinity, Brasenose, and Wolfson)
* Margerie Venables Taylor (Somerville)
* Emily Vermeule (St Agnes)
* J.B. Ward-Perkins (New College)
* Ute Wartenberg
* Katharine Woolley (Somerville)
* Maria Wyke (Somerville)

## Modern languages

* Carmen Blacker (Somerville)
* Malcolm Bowie (All Souls)
* George Alfred Kolkhorst (Exeter)
* Joycelynne Loncke (Somerville)
* Malcolm Pasley (Trinity, The Queen's, and Magdalen)
* Rebecca Posner (Somerville)
* T. J. Reed (The Queen's)
* Graham Robb (Exeter)
* Mark Southern (Balliol)
* Enid Starkie (Somerville)
* Joan Turville-Petre (Somerville)
* Ghil'ad Zuckermann (St Hugh's)

## Philosophers

* Theodor Adorno (Merton)
* Virgil Aldrich
* Archibald Alison (Balliol)
* Nayef Al-Rodhan (St Antony's)
* Pamela Sue Anderson (Mansfield and Regent's Park)
* G. E. M. Anscombe (St Hugh's)
* Robin Attfield (Christ Church and Regent's Park)
* J. L. Austin (Balliol)
* Anita Avramides (Somerville and St Hilda's)
* Alfred Ayer (Christ Church)
* Roger Bacon (Greyriars)
* Gordon Baker (The Queen's, St John's)
* Jeremy Bentham (The Queen's)
* Isaiah Berlin (Corpus Christi and All Souls)
* Roy Bhaskar (Balliol)
* Brand Blanshard
* Elisabeth Blochmann (Lady Margaret Hall)
* Susanne Bobzien (Somerville, Balliol, The Queen's, and All Souls)
* Thomas Browne (Pembroke)
* John Campbell (Christ Church)
* Quassim Cassam (Keble)
* David Chalmers (Lincoln)
* Gerald Cohen (All Souls)
* R. G. Collingwood (Magdalen)
* Alice Crary (Regent's Park)
* Gregory Currie (St John's)
* Brian Davies (Blackfriars)
* Edward de Bono (Christ Church)
* Daniel Dennett (Hertford)
* John Theophilus Desaguliers (Christ Church and Hart Hall)
* Michael Dummett (Christ Church and All Souls)
* Dorothy Edgington (St Hilda's)
* Gareth Evans (University)
* Antony Flew (St John's)
* Luciano Floridi (St Cross)
* Philippa Foot (Somerville)
* Peter Geach (Balliol)
* Celia Green (Somerville)
* Paul Grice (Corpus Christi)
* Robert Grosseteste (Greyfriars) Bishop of Lincoln 1235-53
* Þorsteinn Gylfason (Magdalen)
* Susan Haack
* Peter Hacker (The Queen's, St Antony's, Balliol, and St John's)
* Stuart Hampshire (Balliol)
* R. M. Hare (Balliol and Corpus Christi)
* Thomas Hobbes (Hertford)
* C. E. M. Joad (Balliol)
* Anthony Kenny (St Benet's, Balliol, St John's)
* Brian Klug (St Benet's)
* Martha Kneale (Somerville)
* Leszek Kołakowski (All Souls)
* Stephen Law (Trinity and The Queen's)
* David Lewis
* Genevieve Lloyd (Somerville)
* John Locke (Christ Church)
* John Lucas (Balliol, Merton)
* Henry Longueville Mansel (St John's and Magdalen) Dean of St Paul's 1868-71
* Colin McGinn (Jesus)
* Mary Midgely (Somerville)
* Michele Moody-Adams (Somerville)
* Max More (Max T. O'Connor) (St Anne's)
* Thomas Nagel (Corpus Christi)
* Kathleen Nott (Somerville)
* Sari Nusseibeh (Christ Church) President of Al-Quds University
* Hilda D. Oakeley (Somerville)
* Michael Oakeshott (Nuffield)
* William of Ockham (Merton)
* Onora O'Neill (Somerville)
* Derek Parfit (Balliol and All Souls)
* Christopher Peacocke (Exeter, The Queen's, All Souls, New College, and Magdalen)
* David Pearce (Brasenose)
* Alexander Piatigorsky
* Jonathan Rée
* Daniel N. Robinson
* W. D. Ross (Balliol and Oriel)
* Alan Ryan (Balliol and New College)
* Gilbert Ryle (Christ Church)
* Julian Savulescu (St Cross)
* John Duns Scotus
* John Rogers Searle (Christ Church)
* Peter Singer (University)
* Aaron Sloman (Balliol and St Antony's)
* Tom Sorell (Balliol)
* Galen Strawson
* Peter Strawson (St John's, University, and Magdalen)
* Ralph Strode (Merton)
* Charles Taylor (Balliol and All Souls)
* Geoffrey Warnock (Hertford)
* Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock (Lady Margaret Hall and St Hugh's)
* Ronald Lampman Watts (Oriel) Principal of Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) 1974–84
* Kathy Wilkes (St Hilda's)
* Bernard Williams (Balliol and All Souls)
* Kwasi Wiredu (University)
* A.D. Woozley (The Queen's)

## Economists

* William Ashley (Balliol and Lincoln)
* Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh (Balliol)
* Marian Bell (Hertford)
* David Bensusan-Butt (Nuffield)
* William Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge (Balliol)
* Shahid Javed Burki (Christ Church)
* Frances Cairncross (St Anne's and Exeter)
* Wendy Carlin
* Anusha Chari (Balliol)
* G. D. H. Cole (Balliol and University)
* Howard Davies (Merton) Director LSE, formerly Chmn FSA, Dep Gov Bank of England, DG CBI, Controller Audit Commn
* Andrew Dilnot (St John's)
* Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (Balliol)
* Amelia Fletcher
* Andrew Graham (Balliol)
* Roy Harrod (Christ Church)
* John Hicks (Balliol)
* Ursula Kathleen Hicks (Somerville)
* John A. Hobson (Lincoln)
* Harry Hodson (Balliol and All Souls)
* Caroline Hoxby (Magdalen)
* Mary Kaldor (Somerville)
* Lawrence Klein (Lincoln)
* Paul Krugman
* James Meade (Oriel)
* John Williams Mellor
* James Mirrlees (Nuffield)
* Abul Maal Abdul Muhith
* Gunnar Myrdal (Balliol)
* Stephen Nickell (Nuffield) Professor Economics LSE 1998-2006, Member Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee 2000-06
* Paul Ormerod (St Catherine's)
* Utsa Patnaik (Somerville)
* James Robertson (Balliol)
* Walt Whitman Rostow (Balliol)
* Ernst Schumacher
* Amartya Sen (Nuffield and All Souls)
* Faiza Shaheen (St John's)
* Adam Smith (Balliol) known as The Father of Economics or The Father of Capitalism
* Alasdair Smith
* Robert Solow (Balliol)
* Michael Spence (Magdalen)
* Frances Stewart (Somerville)
* Joseph E. Stiglitz (All Souls and St Catherine's)
* Fabian Tassano (New College)
* Lester Thurow (Balliol)
* Barbara Ward (Somerville)
* Richard Werner
* Alison Wolf (Somerville)
* Stefano Zamagni

## Geography

* Denis Cosgrove (St Catherine's)
* Andrew Goudie (Hertford and St Cross)
* Emily Georgiana Kemp (Somerville)
* Janelle Knox-Hayes (Green Templeton)
* Diana Liverman (Linacre)
* Halford John Mackinder (Christ Church) Director LSE 1903–08, Member of Parliament 1910–22
* Nick Middleton (St Anne's)
* Ann Varley

## Anthropology and ethnography

* Madawi Al-Rasheed (Nuffield)
* Edwin Ardener (St. John's)
* Marius Barbeau (Oriel)
* Brenda Beck (Somerville)
* Beatrice Blackwood (Somerville)
* Maria Czaplicka (Somerville)
* John Davis (University and All Souls)
* Alex de Waal (Nuffield)
* E. E. Evans-Pritchard (Exeter and All Souls)
* Ernest Gellner (Balliol)
* Max Gluckman (Exeter)
* Stuart Hall (Merton)
* Earnest Hooton
* E. O. James (Exeter)
* Schuyler Jones
* Hugh Kawharu (Exeter)
* Robert Ranulph Marett (Exeter)
* James Cowles Prichard (St John's and Trinity)
* Vernon Reynolds (Magdalen)
* Katherine Routledge (Somerville)
* Walter Baldwin Spencer (Exeter and Lincoln)
* Colin Turnbull (Magdalen)
* Mai Yamani (Somerville)

## Sociology

* Reem Bassiouney (Somerville)
* John Goldthorpe (Nuffield)
* M. N. Srinivas (All Souls)
* Steven Lukes (Balliol, Nuffield, and Worcester)
* Gordon Marshall (Nuffield) V-C University of Reading, formerly Chief Exec Economic & Social Research Council
* Ted Nelson (Wadham)
* Ann Oakley (Somerville)
* Sheila Rowbotham (St Hilda's)
* Bryan Wilson (All Souls)

## Politics, political philosophy, and international relations

* Alyson Bailes (Somerville)
* Mark Bevir
* Christopher Brewin (St John's and Christ Church)
* James Burnham (Balliol)
* Alex Callinicos (Balliol)
* Gerald Cohen (All Souls)
* James Corry Principal of Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) 1961-68
* Deborah Coyne (Wadham) international relations and law, contributed to Meech Lake Accords
* David Dilks (Hertford, St Antony's, and All Souls) Vice Chancellor of the University of Hull 1991–99
* Samuel Finer (Trinity and Balliol)
* Rosemary Foot (St. Antony's)Professor of International Relations, and John Swire Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Univ
* Bruce Gilley
* Matt Golder Professor at Pennsylvania State University
* Sir Lawrence Freedman
* Nikolas Gvosdev (St Antony's)
* Fred Halliday (The Queen's)
* Ted Hodgetts Principal Victoria College Toronto 1967–69, President Victoria University 1970–72
* Raghavan N. Iyer (Magdalen, Nuffield, and St Antony's)
* Robert Lieber (St Antony's) Professor, Department of Government and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
* Baisali Mohanty (Wolfson)
* Moses Morgan President of Memorial University of Newfoundland 1973–81
* Thomas Nossiter (Exeter and Nuffield) Professor of Government LSE 1989–94
* Joseph Nye (Exeter)
* Masako Owada (Balliol)
* Rafał Pankowski (born 1976), Polish sociologist and political scientist
* Robert D. Putnam (Balliol)
* Michael Sandel (Balliol) Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University
* Emma Sky (Somerville)
* Anne-Marie Slaughter (Worcester) Dean Woodrow Wilson Sch of Public & International Affairs Princeton Univ
* Jeremy Waldron (All Souls)
* Helen Wallace, Baroness Wallace of Saltaire
* Graham Wallas (Corpus Christi)
* Shirley Williams (Somerville)
* Naomi Wolf (New College)

## Asian studies

* Carmen Blacker (Somerville)
* Ian Buruma (St Antony's)
* David Hawkes (All Souls)
* James Legge (Corpus Christi)
* Jessica Rawson (Merton)
* William Edward Soothill
* Richard Carnac Temple
* Richard Olaf Winstedt (New College)

## Mathematicians and statisticians

* John Macleod Ball
* Simon Bredon (Balliol and Merton)
* Lewis Carroll (Christ Church)
* Mary Cartwright (St Hugh's)
* Kathryn Chaloner (Somerville)
* Anne Cobbe (Somerville)
* Alison Etheridge
* Leslie Fox (Christ Church and Balliol)
* W.S. Gosset (New College)
* Brian Greene
* Edmund Gunter (Christ Church)
* G.H. Hardy (Savilian Chair of Geometry)
* Stephen Hawking (University)
* Peter Hilton (The Queen's) Professor Univ of Birmingham, Cornell Univ, Case Western Reserve Univ, Binghamton Univ, and Univ of Central Florida
* Nigel Hitchin (Jesus, Wolfson, and New College)
* Ioan James (The Queen's and New College)
* Frances Kirwan (Magdalen and Balliol)
* Ruth Lawrence (St Hugh's)
* John Lennox
* Holbrook Mann MacNeille (Balliol)
* Claus Moser, Baron Moser (Nuffield and Wadham)
* Kathleen Ollerenshaw (Somerville)
* Roger Penrose
* Marcus du Sautoy (All Souls and Wadham)
* Caroline Series (Somerville)
* Bernard Silverman (University and St Peter's)
* Henry John Stephen Smith (Balliol)
* G. Spencer-Brown (Christ Church)
* Martin J. Taylor (Pembroke) Professor Pure Mathematics UMIST 1986-2004, Manchester 2004-, Pres London Mathematical Soc 1998-2000, Vice-Pres Royal Soc 2004-
* Richard Taylor (New College)
* Mary Wynne Warner (Somerville)
* J.H.C. Whitehead (Balliol and Magdalen)
* Andrew Wiles (Merton)

## Scientists
### Naturalists, botanists, and zoologists

* Joseph Banks (Christ Church)
* Jonathan Borwein (Jesus)
* Sydney Brenner (Exeter)
* Lady Anne Brewis (Somerville)
* Francis Trevelyan Buckland
* William Buckland (Christ Church)
* Neil Chalmers (Magdalen and Wadham)
* Ian Chubb
* Richard Dawkins (Balliol)
* John Bretland Farmer (Magdalen)
* E. B. Ford (Wadham)
* Jeremy Greenwood (St Catherine's)
* J. B. S. Haldane (New College)
* W. D. Hamilton (New College)
* Alister Hardy (Exeter, Merton, and Manchester)
* Ian Hepburn
* John Kidd (Christ Church)
* Linda King
* John Krebs (Pembroke and Jesus)
* Ray Lankester (Christ Church)
* Amory Lovins (Magdalen and Merton)
* Anne McLaren (Lady Margaret Hall)
* Gavin Maxwell (Hertford)
* Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (Merton)
* Peter Medawar (Magdalen)
* Desmond Morris (Magdalen)
* Robert Plot (Magdalen Hall)
* Edward Bagnall Poulton (Jesus)
* David Quammen (Merton)
* Matthew Ridley (Magdalen)
* Charles Sherrington (Magdalen)
* Richard Southwood (Merton)
* Nikolaas Tinbergen (Merton)
* Sunil Kumar Verma (Green)
* Kathy Willis (Merton)

### Medicine

* Donald Acheson (Brasenose and University) Chief Medical Officer 1983–1991
* Henry Wentworth Acland (Christ Church and All Souls)
* Colin Baigent
* Josephine Barnes (Lady Margaret Hall)
* George Wells Beadle (Balliol)
* Claude Bertrand
* Baruch Samuel Blumberg (Balliol)
* Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain
* Christopher Bulstrode (Green Templeton)
* Robert Burton (Brasenose)
* Sheila Cassidy (Somerville)
* Ernst Chain (University)
* Alan Clemetson
* Augusto Claudio Cuello Professor and Charles E. Frosst/Merck Chair in Pharmacology & Therapeutics, McGill University
* Richard Doll (Christ Church)
* John Carew Eccles (Magdalen)
* J. R. Evans President, University of Toronto, 1972–78, Director Population, Health, & Nutrition, World Bank, 1979–83
* William Feindel (Merton)
* Howard Florey (Lincoln, The Queen's, and Magdalen)
* John Freind (Christ Church)
* Innocent Gangaidzo
* Archibald Garrod (Christ Church)
* Atul Gawande (Balliol)
* Ragnar Granit
* Bongani Mayosi (Wolfson)
* Roy Meadow (Worcester)
* Richard Morton (Magdalen Hall)
* David Naylor (Hertford) President, University of Toronto, 2005–
* Paul Nurse (Linacre)
* Severo Ochoa
* William Osler (Christ Church)
* Wilder Penfield
* Thomas Phaer sometime Member of Parliament for Cardigan
* Rodney Porter (Trinity)
* John Radcliffe (University)
* Oliver Sacks (The Queen's)
* Cicely Saunders (St Anne's)
* Charles Singer (Magdalen)
* Oliver Smithies (Balliol)
* Elsdon Storey
* Thomas Stuttaford (Brasenose) The Times medical expert, Member of Parliament, 1970–74
* Robert Twycross
* John Robert Vane (St Catherine's)
* Arthur Vidrine
* Diana Walford (Mansfield)
* Thomas Willis (Christ Church)
* Srinivas Gada (Hon Senior Lecturer)

### Psychologists, psychiatrists, and physiologists of the brain

* Simon Baron-Cohen (New College)
* Stephen J. Bergman (Samuel Shem) (Balliol)
* G. E. Berrios (Corpus Christi)
* Wilfred Bion (The Queen's)
* Nick Bouras
* Chris Brand (The Queen's and Nuffield)
* Donald Broadbent (Wolfson)
* Fiona Caldicott (St Hilda's and Somerville)
* Gordon Claridge (Magdalen)
* Hervey M. Cleckley
* Adrian Furnham (Pembroke)
* Jeffrey Alan Gray (Magdalen)
* Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield (St Hilda's and Lincoln)
* Miles Hewstone (New College)
* Charles McCreery (New College and Magdalen)
* Edward Thomas Monro (Oriel)
* Henry Monro (Oriel)
* James Monro (Balliol)
* John Monro (St John's and University)
* Thomas Monro (Oriel)
* Shirley Pearce (St Anne's)
* Adrian Raine
* Edmund Rolls (Corpus Christi)
* Stuart Sutherland (Magdalen)
* Lawrence Weiskrantz (Magdalen)
* Simon Wessely (University)

### Chemists

* Mary Archer, Baroness Archer of Weston-super-Mare (St Anne's)
* Peter Atkins (Lincoln)
* Michael Barber (chemist) (The Queen's)
* Anne Beloff-Chain
* Robert Boyle (University)
* Humphry Bowen (Magdalen)
* E. J. Bowen (Balliol)
* David Clary (St John's and Magdalen)
* John Cornforth (St Catherine's)
* Charles Daubeny (Magdalen)
* Roger Gaudry Rector, Université de Montréal, 1965–75
* Véronique Gouverneur
* Nicole Grobert
* Dalziel Hammick (Magdalen)
* Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (Balliol)
* Dorothy Hodgkin (Somerville)
* Frederick L. Hovde
* Malcolm Kelland, professor of chemistry at University of Stavanger
* Abdus Suttar Khan (St. Catherine's)
* Jeremy Knowles (Balliol and Wadham)
* Ilya Kuprov (Corpus Christi and Magdalen)
* Jack Linnett (The Queen's)
* Michael Mingos (Keble and St Edmund Hall)
* Robert Mulliken (St John's)
* Linus Pauling (Balliol)
* Rex Richards (Lincoln, Exeter, and Merton)
* Robert Robinson (Magdalen)
* Tara Shirvani (biochemist) (University College)
* Francis Simon (Christ Church)
* James Smithson (Pembroke)
* Frederick Soddy (Merton)
* Alexander Todd (Oriel)
* John E. Walker (St Catherine's)
* Michael Stanley Whittingham
* Ahmed Zewail (St Catherine's)

### Physicists and astronomers
#### Astronomers Royal

* Edmund Halley (The Queen's) 1720–42
* James Bradley (Balliol) 1742–62
* Nathaniel Bliss (Pembroke) 1762-64
* Martin Ryle (Christ Church) 1972–82

#### Other physicists and astronomers

* John D. Barrow
* Roger Cashmore (Balliol, University, Christ Church, Merton, and Brasenose)
* Albert Einstein (Christ Church)
* Brian Greene
* Stephen Hawking (University)
* Robert Hooke (Christ Church)
* Edwin Hubble (The Queen's)
* Leonard Huxley
* Willis Lamb
* Anthony Leggett
* Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (Christ Church)
* John Maddox (Christ Church)
* Brian G. Marsden (New College)
* Roger Penrose
* Stephen Quake (PhD 1994)
* Norman Ramsey (Balliol)
* Erwin Schrödinger (Magdalen)
* Dennis Sciama
* John Hasbrouck van Vleck (Balliol)
* Klaus von Klitzing
* John Clive Ward
* Denys Wilkinson (Christ Church)
* Richard Wilson (Christ Church)
* Stephen Wolfram (St John's)

### Computers, electronics, and robotics

* Samson Abramsky (Wolfson)
* Tim Berners-Lee (The Queen's)
* Richard Bird (Lincoln)
* Jonathan Bowen (University)
* Edgar F. Codd (Exeter)
* David Gavaghan (New College)
* Joseph Goguen (St Anne's)
* Ralph Hartley
* C. A. R. Hoare (Merton)
* Cliff Jones
* Hermann Moisl
* Peter Mosses (Trinity and Wolfson)
* Peter Braam (Merton College and St Catherine's )
* Mike Reed (St Edmund Hall)
* Bill Roscoe (University)
* Martin Smith (St John's)
* Michael Spivey (Oriel)
* Joe Stoy (Balliol)
* Christopher Strachey
* David Turner
* Robert J. Van de Graaff
* Jim Woodcock (Kellogg)

### Engineering and agriculture

* Roger Ainsworth (Jesus and St Catherine's)
* Ben Britton (St Catherine's)
* William Froude (Oriel)
* E. Peter Raynes (St Cross)
* Lionel Tarassenko (Keble and St John's)
* Jethro Tull (St John's)
* Matilda Simon, 3rd Baroness Simon of Wythenshawe (Balliol)
* Kevin Warwick (Somerville)
* Martin Wood (Christ Church)

### Geology

* William Joscelyn Arkell (New College)
* U. Aswathanarayana
* Donald Ferlys Wilson Baden-Powell (Oriel)
* Malcolm Brown (St Cross)
* Colin Campbell (Wadham)
* Keith Cox (The Queen's and Jesus)
* Moira Dunbar (St Anne's)
* Charles Lyell (Exeter)
* Hugh Edwin Strickland (Oriel)
* Lawrence Wager

### Meteorology

* Joanna Haigh (Somerville)
* Patrick McTaggart-Cowan (Corpus Christi)