page_title: List of alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
section_title: Artists, composers, writers and entertainers
hierarchical_section_title: List of alumni of Exeter College, Oxford / Artists, composers, writers and entertainers
context_page_description: This is a list of alumni of Exeter College, Oxford. Exeter is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford.
  The scarcity of women in this list of notable alumni reflects the fact that for over six and a half centuries, women were barred from studying at Exeter.
  Those educated at the college include:
context_section_description: Tariq Ali (1943– ), writer and filmmaker
  Martin Amis (1949– ), novelist
  Alan Bennett (1934– ), author and actor
  R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900), author of Lorna Doone
  Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898), artist
  Richard Burton (1925–1984), actor
  S.E. Cottam, poet, priest and publisher
  John Ford (1586–c.1640?), dramatist
  John Gardner (1917–2011), composer
  James Hamilton-Paterson, novelist and poet
  Mark Labbett (1965– ), Quiz player
  Lady Flora McDonnell (1963– ), children's author
  William Morris (1834–1896), writer, designer and socialist
  Alfred Noyes (1880–1958), poet
  Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), critic and poet
  Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848–1918), composer
  Philip Pullman (1946– ), author of His Dark Materials
  Paul William Roberts (1927– ), novelist, journalist, travel writer, Middle East expert
  Will Self (1961– ), novelist
  Imogen Stubbs (1961– ), actress
  J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
  Paul Wheeler (writer), (1934-), author of Bodyline: The Novel
  Helen Marten (1985), artist and winner of the Hepworth Prize and Turner Prize in 2016.
caption: J. R. R. Tolkien
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