page_title: List of Somerville College, Oxford, people
section_title: International
hierarchical_section_title: List of Somerville College, Oxford, people / Alumni / Politicians / International
caption_attribution_description: English: Margaret Ballinger (1894-1980), first President of the Liberal Party of South Africa and South African Member of Parliament.
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable people associated with Somerville College, Oxford, including alumni and fellows of the college. This list consists almost entirely of women, due to the fact that Somerville College was one of the first two women's colleges of the University of Oxford, admitting men for the first time in 1994. The college and its alumni have played a very important role in feminism.
  Somervillians include prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi, Nobel-Prize-winning scientist Dorothy Hodgkin, journalist Esther Rantzen, reformer Cornelia Sorabji, writers Marjorie Boulton, Vera Brittain, A. S. Byatt, Susan Cooper, Penelope Fitzgerald, Winifred Holtby, Nicole Krauss, Iris Murdoch and Dorothy L. Sayers, politicians Shirley Williams, Margaret Jay and Sam Gyimah, Princess Bamba Sutherland and her sister, philosophers Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Onora O'Neill, archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon, actress Moon Moon Sen, soprano Emma Kirkby and numerous activists.
context_section_description: Margaret Ballinger (1894–1980), South African politician, first President of the Liberal Party of South Africa, "Queen of the Blacks"; held considerable power in the government of South Africa
  Indira Gandhi (1917–1984), Prime Minister of India, named "Woman of the Millennium" in an online poll organised by the BBC
  Svava Jakobsdóttir (1930–2004), one of Iceland's foremost 20th-century authors and feminist politicians
  Diana Josephson (1936-2006), first woman to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and first female Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere under Bill Clinton; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Installations and Environments and director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research; winner of the Department of Commerce Gold Medal and Navy Distinguished Public Service Award
  Adelaide Plumptre (1874–1948), Canadian activist, diplomat, and municipal politician in Toronto First woman elected chair of the Canadian Red Cross, Toronto Board of Education; first woman to sit in the Toronto Board of Control
  Radhabai Subbarayan (1891–1960), first female member of the Indian Council of States (Rajya Sabha)
caption: Margaret Ballinger
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