page_title: List of Somerville College, Oxford, people
section_title: Fellows & staff
hierarchical_section_title: List of Somerville College, Oxford, people / Fellows & staff
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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: G. E. M. Anscombe FBA (1919–2001), analytic philosopher, wife of Peter Geach
  David Barford FRS FMedSci, medical researcher
  Annie Barnes (1903–2003), reader in French literature
  Elise Jenny Baumgartel (1892–1975), German Egyptologist and prehistorian who pioneered the study of the archaeology of predynastic Egypt
  Amita Baviskar, sociologist studying the cultural politics of environment and development in rural and urban India; awarded the Infosys Prize
  Tony Bell FRS, physicist; winner of the Hoyle Medal and Prize, Eddington Medal and Hannes Alfvén Prize
  Margarete Bieber (1879–1978), Jewish German-American art historian, classical archaeologist and professor, second woman university professor in Germany
  Käthe Bosse-Griffiths (1910–1998), German-born Egyptologist and writer in the Welsh language
  Sarah Broom (1972–2013), New Zealand poet; the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize is named after her
  Gráinne de Búrca FBA (1966), Irish legal scholar, specialising in European Union law
  Nina Byers (1930–2014), theoretical physicist
  Muriel St. Clare Byrne (1895–1983), historical researcher
  Herman Cappelen (1967), Norwegian philosopher
  April Carter (1937), peace activist; active in the anti-nuclear movement in the United Kingdom
  Maude Clarke (1892–1935), Irish historian; first female to join Queen's University Belfast’s academic staff
  Anne Cobbe (1920–1971), mathematician
  Helen De Cruz (1978), Belgian philosopher
  Henriette Dahan Kalev (1947), Israeli feminist theorist and political scientist; one of the founders of the Mizrahi feminist movement, and one of the leading theorists of Mizrahi feminism
  Stephanie Dalley FSA (1943), scholar of the Ancient Near East
  Marian Dawkins CBE FRS (1945), biologist; professor of ethology; wife of Richard Dawkins
  Helen DeWitt (1957), novelist; writer of The Last Samurai and Lightning Rods
  Ursula Dronke (1920–2012), medievalist
  Nan Dunbar (1928–2005), classicist.
  Katherine Duncan-Jones FRSL (1941), literature and Shakespeare scholar
  Jennifer Durrant RA (1942), artist-in-residence
  Dorothy Emmet (1904–2000), philosopher;  a founder member of the Epiphany Philosophers
  Karin Erdmann (1948), German mathematician
  Colin Espie  FRSM FBPsS (1957), Scottish neuroscientist and Professor of Sleep Medicine
  Barbara Everett, academic and literary critic
  Marc Feldmann AC FAA FRS FRCP FRCPath FMedSci (1944), Australian immunologist; winner of the Crafoord Prize, Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh, Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research, Ernst Schering Prize and Canada Gairdner International Award.
  Philippa Foot FBA (1920–2010), philosopher and creator of the trolley problem
  Barbara Freire-Marreco (1879–1967), anthropologist and folklorist; one of the first two women to gain a Diploma in Anthropology at Oxford
  Margery Fry (1874–1958), prison reformer; one of the first women to become a magistrate
  Hilary Greaves, philosopher
  Charlotte Byron Green (1842–1929, Vice-President), promoter of women's education
  Miriam T. Griffin (1935–2018), American classical scholar; held the first Women in Classics dinner (at Somerville College)
  Grace Eleanor Hadow OBE (1875–1940), author, principal of St Anne's College, Oxford, and vice-chairman of the Women's Institute
  Edith Hall (1959), scholar of classics, specialising in ancient Greek literature and cultural history
  Helena Hamerow FSA (1961), Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology; former Head of the School of Archaeology at Oxford
  Jenny Harrison (1949), American mathematician
  Barbara Harvey (1928), medieval historian
  Gertrud Herzog-Hauser (1894–1953), Austrian classical philologist; first Austrian woman to gain a habilitation at university and Vienna’s first university lecturer in classical language.
  James Higginbotham FBA (1941–2014), Vera Brittain Visiting Fellow, professor of Linguistics and philosophy
  Dorothy Hodgkin OM FRS HonFRSC (1910–1994), Nobel Prize winner for her discovery of the structure of Vitamin B12 and development of protein crystallography; first, and only, British woman to win a Nobel Prize in 
caption: Rajesh Thakker
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