# List of people associated with Wolfson College, Oxford

A list of people associated with Wolfson College, Oxford. This includes former students, Fellows and Presidents of the college.

## Former students

* Gertrud Seidmann, oldest Oxford student who was awarded a Certificate of Graduate Attainment at the age 91.

### Science

* Michael Butler, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK
* Dame Kay Davies, Human Geneticist
* Richard Ellis, extragalactic astronomer, Steele Professor at Caltech and former director, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
* Artur Ekert, one of the pioneers of quantum cryptography, and winner of the Maxwell and Hughes medals, and the Descartes Prize
* Alison Gopnik, Professor of Psychology, Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley
* Michael Hinchey, Irish computer scientist, Director at the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (Lero), University of Limerick, Ireland
* Nigel Hitchin, British mathematician, winner of the Sylvester Medal
* Michele Mosca, quantum scientist known for his work on quantum algorithms and NMR quantum computation
* James R. Norris, mathematician working in probability theory and stochastic analysis, Professor of Stochastic Analysis in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge
* Tim Palmer FRS, Climate scientist at the University of Oxford
* Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke, a Dutch historian of science, who began his academic career as a marine geologist
* Michael Spivey, British computer scientist at the University of Oxford, who wrote an Oberon-2 compiler.

### Law

* Karim Asad Ahmad Khan, Prosecutor in the UN International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, counsel before Special Courts in East Timor and Sierra Leone
* Dame Hazel Genn, authority on civil justice
* The Hon. Justice Francisco Rezek, distinguished Brazilian jurist and member of the International Court of Justice and formerly Foreign Minister of Brazil

### History & literature

* Joe Andrew, Professor of Russian Literature at Keele University
* Henry Hardy, author and editor, publisher of Isaiah Berlin's papers
* Josef W. Meri, specialist in Islam in the pre-modern period, Islamic cultural and social history
* Iain Pears, popular British novelist, art historian

### Politics & government

* Tony Buti, Australian politician and Australian Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
* Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland, US state
* Tom Phillips (diplomat), Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies.
* Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, businessman, former Iranian government official, and the fourth child of Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former President of Iran
* Nafisa Shah, Member of Pakistan's National Assembly (MNA), Chairperson of Pakistan's National Commission for Human Development, nominated for a collective Nobel Peace Prize under "1000 Women for Peace" category.
* Simon Upton, formerly Minister of Health, Environment and Science and Technology and member of the National Party
* Mike Woodin, former principal speaker for the Green Party of England and Wales (later Fellow of Balliol)

### Business

* Don Elder, New Zealand engineer and businessman, CEO of the New Zealand mining and energy company Solid Energy.

## Fellows

* Samson Abramsky, computer scientist and developer of domain theory in logic form, game semantics and categorical quantum mechanics
* John Addis, former UK ambassador to Laos, the Philippines and China
* Leonie Archer, historian and authority on women in Jewish antiquity
* Isaiah Berlin, regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential liberal philosophers
* Kanti Bajpai, Former Headmaster, The Doon School, India
* John Barnes, developer of the Ada programming language
* William Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw, Member of the House of Lords
* Donald Broadbent, experimental psychologist
* Sebastian Brock, expert in Syriac language
* Amit Chaudhuri, novelist
* David Dabydeen, Guyana's Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinaire to China, from 2010 to 2015
* Simon Digby, oriental scholar
* Anthony Epstein, discovered the Epstein-Barr virus
* Robin Gandy, mathematician and logician
* Raymond Hoffenberg, endocrinologist and medical scientist and prominent opponent of apartheid in South Africa
* Tony Hoare, computer scientist, developer of Quicksort the widely used sorting algorithm
* Dorothy Hodgkin, British Chemist and Nobel Prize winner
* Avishai Margalit, philosopher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
* Roger Moorey, British archeologist and keeper of antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
* Pat Nuttall, expert in tick-borne diseases
* Gareth Roberts, physicist and influential figure in shaping British policy on the sciences
* Sumit Sarkar, Indian historian, former Professor of history, Delhi University
* Erich Wolf Segal, American author and screenwriter, wrote the screenplay for The Beatles' 1968 motion picture Yellow Submarine
* Steven Schwartz, Vice Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia
* Jon Stallworthy, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Oxford, UK
* Bryan Sykes, world-renowned human geneticist
* Niko Tinbergen, Dutch ethologist and Nobel prize winner
* Géza Vermes, Hungarian Jewish historian of ancient Judaism and early Christianity, authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the historical Jesus

## Presidents

* Isaiah Berlin, 1967–1975
* Henry Fisher, 1975–85
* Raymond Hoffenberg, 1985–93
* Jim Kennedy, (acting), 1993–1994
* David Smith, 1994–2000
* Jon Stallworthy, (acting), 2000
* Gareth Roberts, 2000–2007
* Jon Stallworthy, (acting), 2007–2008
* Hermione Lee, 2008–2017
* Philomen Probert, (acting), 2017–2018
* Tim Hitchens, 2018–present