Below is a list of Rhodes Scholars covering notable people who are also Rhodes Scholarship recipients, sorted by year and surname. See also: Category:Rhodes scholars
Key to the columns in the main table:
Column label | Description of Column contents |
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Name | The name of the scholarship recipient, including link to their Wikipedia page. (As this is a list of notable people, all are eligible for a Wikipedia page.) |
University | The University where the eligible studies were performed. Note that under the terms of Rhodes' will, there are only 14 regions which nominate candidates - see Rhodes Scholarship#Allocations. |
Oxford College | The Oxford College where the studies supported by the scholarship were performed. |
Year | The year in which the scholarship was awarded. |
Notability | A brief summary (max. 2 lines) of the recipient's notability - detailed information appears on the recipient's Wikipedia page. |
Name |
University |
Oxford College |
Year |
Notability |
---|---|---|---|---|
John Behan | Melbourne | Hertford | 1904 | Lawyer and academic (University and Trinity Colleges)[1] |
Norman Jolly | Adelaide | Balliol | 1904 | Forester who played First-class cricket for Worcestershire[2] |
John J. Tigert | Vanderbilt | Pembroke | 1904 | U.S. Commissioner of Education (1921–1928), President of the University of Florida (1928–1947)[3] |
Philip Robertson | Victoria (NZ) | Trinity | 1905 | New Zealand chemist, university professor and writer[4] |
Roy Robinson | Adelaide | Magdalen | 1905 | The first Baron Robinson, regarded as the chief architect of state forestry in Great Britain[5] |
Carl Brinkmann | [6] | Queen's | 1904 | German sociologist and economist[7] |
Warren Ault | Baker | Jesus | 1907 | Historian, who taught at Boston University from 1913 to 1957, becoming Huntington Professor of History[8] |
Clarence H. Haring | Harvard | New College | 1907 | American historian |
Alain LeRoy Locke | Harvard | Hertford | 1907 | Philosopher, writer, educator and Harlem Renaissance patron[9] |
Neal Macrossan | Queensland[6] | Magdalen | 1907 | Chief Justice of Queensland 1946–1955[10] |
Frank E. Holman | Utah | Exeter | 1908 | President of the American Bar Association (1948)[11] |
Henry Fry | Adelaide | Balliol | 1909 | Physician and anthropologist[12] |
Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff | Germany[6] | Trinity | 1909 | German diplomat, executed for conspiracy against Hitler in 1945 |
Marius Barbeau | Laval | Oriel | 1910 | Canadian ethnographer and folklorist[13] |
Elmer Davis | Franklin College | Queen's[14] | 1910 | American newsman, Director of the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II[15] |
Ralph Hartley | Utah | St John's | 1910 | Inventor of the Hartley oscillator, Mathematician, and winner of the IRE Medal of Honor (1946)[16] |
Jan Hofmeyr | Cape Town | Balliol | 1910 | Academic, public administrator, and South African liberal politician |
Earnest Hooton | Lawrence | University | 1910 | American physical anthropologist |
Edwin Hubble | Chicago | Queen's | 1910 | American astronomer |
John Ransom | Vanderbilt | Christ Church | 1910 | Poet |
Frank Aydelotte | Indiana | Brasenose | 1911 | President of Swarthmore College (1921–1940) |
Cecil Madigan | Adelaide | Magdalen | 1911 | Explorer and geologist[17] |
Edmund Herring | Melbourne | New College | 1912 | Australian Army general, barrister, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Lieutenant governor of Victoria[18] |
Frido von Senger | [6] | St John's | 1912 | German General in WWII |
Brand Blanshard | Michigan | Merton | 1913 | Philosopher |
Henry Brose | Adelaide | Christ Church | 1913 | Physicist, academic, pathologist, biochemist[19] |
Charles R. Clason | Bates College | Christ Church | 1914 | U.S. Congressman (Massachusetts) (1937–1949) |
Wilfrid Kent Hughes | [6] | Christ Church | 1914 | Australian soldier, Olympian and Olympic Games organiser, author, and federal and state government minister[20] |
Norman Manley | Jamaica | Jesus | 1914 | Chief Minister of Jamaica 1955–1959, Premier of Jamaica 1959–1962 |
Wilder Penfield | Princeton | Merton | 1914 | Canadian neurosurgeon |
Fred Paterson | Queensland | Merton | 1918 | The only Australian Communist politician ever to win an election[21] |
John Monk Saunders | Washington University in St. Louis[6] | Magdalen | 1918 | Screenwriter of Wings and The Dawn Patrol |
Roland Michener | Alberta | Hertford | 1919 | Governor General of Canada (1967–1974), lawyer, politician |
John Marshall Harlan II | Princeton | Balliol | 1920 | Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1955–1971) |
Howard Florey | Adelaide | Magdalen | 1921 | Australian pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1945 (for penicillin)[22] |
Keith Hancock | Melbourne | Balliol | 1921 | Historian, academic, biographer |
William Stevenson | Princeton | Balliol | 1922 | American Olympic gold medalist in 1924 (Paris), President of Oberlin College (1946–1961), U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines (1961–1965) |
Leonard Huxley | Tasmania | New College | 1923 | Australian physicist |
Arthur Porritt | Otago | Magdalen | 1923 | New Zealand physician, military surgeon, statesman, athlete, Governor-General of New Zealand (1967–1972) |
Hervey M. Cleckley | Georgia | University | 1924 | Psychiatrist, pioneer in the field of psychopathy, co-author of The Three Faces of Eve |
John Niemeyer Findlay | Pretoria | Balliol | 1924 | Philosopher, Gifford lecturer. Meinong, Hegel, Husserl and Wittgenstein scholar |
John Eccles | Melbourne | Magdalen | 1925 | Australian scientist (neurophysiologist), Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1963, for his work on the synapse |
J. William Fulbright | Arkansas | Pembroke | 1925 | U.S. Senator for Arkansas (1945–1974), originator of the Fulbright Fellowship program |
William Vaughn | Vanderbilt University | Christ Church | 1925 | Chairman and CEO of Eastman Kodak |
Robert J. Van de Graaff | Alabama | Queen's | 1925 | Physicist, Inventor, Academic (M.I.T. & Princeton), Inventor of the eponymous Van de Graaff generator |
George Paton | Melbourne | Magdalen | 1926 | Vice Chancellor University of Melbourne (1951–1968) |
Wilfrid Kalaugher | Victoria (NZ) | Balliol | 1927 | New Zealand athlete, scholar and teacher |
Holbrook Mann MacNeille | Swarthmore | Balliol | 1928 | Mathematician, Academic, Scientific Director Office of Scientific Research and Development |
John Platts-Mills | Victoria (NZ) | Balliol | 1928 | New Zealand Barrister, QC, British Labour Party politician |
Robert Penn Warren | Vanderbilt | New College | 1928 | American poet and critic |
Cleanth Brooks | Vanderbilt & Tulane | Exeter | 1929 | American literary critic |
George Stanley | Alberta | Keble | 1929 | Canadian historian, designer of Canadian flag, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick |
Emory Lindquist | Bethany | Jesus | 1930 | historian, President of Bethany College (Kansas) and Witchita State University |
Charles Herbert Little | Toronto | Brasenose | 1930 | Director of Canadian Naval Intelligence during World War II |
"Fritz" Schumacher | Bonn and Berlin[6] | New College | 1930 | Economist, statistician, author, social theorist, public speaker |
Carl Albert | Oklahoma | St Peter's | 1931 | Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives (1971–1977), U.S. Congressman (Oklahoma), 1947–1977 |
Bram Fischer | Bloemfontein | New College | 1931 | Anti-apartheid activist and lawyer |
Ted Jolliffe | Toronto | Christ Church | 1931 | Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (1943–1945, 1948–1951) |
Jack Lovelock | Otago | Exeter | 1931 | 1500 metre Olympic Gold medallist in 1936 Berlin Olympics |
Dean Rusk | Davidson | St John's | 1931 | U.S. Secretary of State, 1961–1969 |
Adam von Trott zu Solz | Göttingen | Balliol | 1931 | German diplomat and anti-Nazi patriot, executed in 1944 |
James Munro Bertram | Auckland | New College | 1932 | New Zealand journalist, writer, relief worker, prisoner of war and university professor |
Geoffrey Cox | Otago | Oriel | 1932 | New Zealand newspaper and television journalist |
David Lewis | McGill | Lincoln | 1932 | Member of parliament and leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada (1971–1975) |
W. L. Morton | Manitoba | St John's | 1932 | Canadian historian |
Ivan A. Getting | M.I.T. | Merton | 1933 | American weapons scientist and co-inventor of GPS technology |
Daniel Boorstin | Harvard | Balliol | 1934 | U.S. Librarian of Congress (1975–1987) |
Max Gluckman | Transvaal[6] | Exeter | 1934 | South African-British-Israeli social anthropologist |
Wilbur Jackett | Saskatchewan | Queen's | 1934 | Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada (1971–1979) |
George C. McGhee | SMU | Queen's | 1934 | U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (1952–1953) and to Germany (1963–1968) |
John Templeton | Yale | Balliol | 1934 | Businessman and founder of Templeton College, Oxford |
Arnold Smith | Ontario[6] | Christ Church | 1935 | First Secretary-General of the Commonwealth |
Walter H. Stockmayer | M.I.T. | Jesus | 1935 | American polymer chemist |
Mervyn Austin | Melbourne | Christ Church | 1936 | Australian Headmaster (Newington College) and Professor of Classics and Ancient History (UWA) |
Gordon A. Craig | Princeton | Balliol | 1936 | American historian and OSS veteran |
Dan Davin | Otago | Balliol | 1936 | New Zealand novelist and head of Oxford University Press |
George Ignatieff | University of Toronto | Trinity | 1936 | Russian born Canadian diplomat, President of the UN Security Council (1968–69) |
Philip Mayer Kaiser | Wisconsin | Balliol | 1936 | U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania (1961–1964), Hungary (1977–1980), and Austria (1980–1981), ASL for International Affairs (1949–1953), Special Assistant to Governor Averell Harriman (1955–1959) |
John B. Oakes | Princeton | Queen's | 1936 | New York Times editor of the editorial page, 1961–1976 |
Walt Whitman Rostow | Yale | Balliol | 1936 | Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (1966–1969), Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, 1961 |
Richard Luyt | Cape Town | Trinity | 1937 | Soldier, statesman and principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town |
Howard K. Smith | Tulane | Merton | 1937 | Broadcast journalist |
Byron White | Colorado | Hertford | 1938 | Football player, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1962–1993 |
Dominic Mintoff | Malta[23] | Hertford | 1939 | Prime Minister of Malta, 1955–1957 & 1971–1984 |
Jack Davis | British Columbia | St. John's | 1939 | Canadian Minister of the Environment (1968–1974), B.C. Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources (1986–1991) |
Ossie Newton-Thompson | Cape Town | Trinity | 1940 | Member of South African parliament and England rugby union international |
Zelman Cowen | Melbourne | New College | 1941 | Australian jurist and academic, Governor General of Australia (1977–1982) |
John Ridley | Canterbury | University | 1946 | New Zealand civil engineer and Member of Parliament |
Paul J. Bohannan | Arizona | Queen's | 1947 | American social anthropologist |
Alastair Gillespie | McGill | Queen's | 1947 | Canadian politician, cabinet minister |
James Hester | Princeton | Pembroke | 1947 | First Rector of the United Nations University, President of New York University |
Nicholas Katzenbach | Princeton | Balliol | 1947 | U.S. Attorney General (1965–1966), U.S. Under-Secretary of State (1966–1969) |
Robert Q. Marston | Virginia Military Institute | 1947 | Director, National Institutes of Health (1968–1973), President of University of Florida (1974–1984)[24] | |
Bernard W. Rogers | U.S. Military Academy | University | 1947 | American general, Supreme Allied Commander, NATO |
William Jay Smith | Washington University in St. Louis | [25] | 1947 | United States Poet Laureate (1968–1970) |
Stansfield Turner | U.S. Naval Academy | Exeter | 1947 | American admiral, Director of Central Intelligence (1977–1981) |
Guy Davenport | Duke | Merton | 1948 | American writer and man of letters |
Renfrey Potts | Adelaide | Queen's | 1948 | Applied mathematician, defined the Potts model |
Eric Prabhakar | India[6] | Christ Church | 1948 | Indian representative in the 1948 Olympic Games Men's 100 metres.[26] |
Robert Burchfield | Victoria (NZ) | Magdalen | 1949 | New Zealand lexicographer, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary |
Peter Durack | Western Australia | Lincoln | 1949 | Australian politician, Commonwealth Attorney General, author |
Gérard La Forest | University of New Brunswick | St. John's | 1949 | Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from January 16, 1985 to September 30, 1997. CC, QC, FRSC. |
John Turner | British Columbia | Magdalen | 1949 | Liberal Party of Canada leader and Prime Minister of Canada, 1984 |
James H. Billington | Princeton | Balliol | 1950 | Academic, Historian, Librarian of U.S. Congress, 1987- |
John Brademas | Harvard | Brasenose | 1950 | U.S. Congressman (Indiana) 1959–1981, President of New York University 1981–1992 |
Tanjore R. Anantharaman | India[6] | Trinity | 1951 | Indian metallurgist |
Thomas A. Bartlett | Oregon[6] | University | 1951 | President, American University in Cairo, 1963–1969, Interim President 2002–2003; Chancellor University of Alabama System, 1981–1989; Chancellor State University of New York, 1994–1996 |
Richard N. Gardner | Harvard and Yale | Balliol | 1951 | U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1977–1981) and Spain (1993–1997), Academic |
Stuart Hall | Jamaica[6] | Merton | 1951 | British cultural theorist |
A. Walton Litz | Princeton | Merton | 1951 | Professor of English Literature at Princeton (1956–1993), literary historian and critic, author, editor |
James Gobbo | Melbourne | Magdalen | 1952 | Victorian Supreme Court Judge and Governor of Victoria |
John Searle | Wisconsin[6] | Christ Church | 1952 | American philosopher |
Charles Taylor | McGill | Balliol | 1952 | Philosopher. Winner of the Kyoto and Templeton prizes |
Hugh Templeton | Otago | Balliol | 1952 | New Zealand diplomat, politician and member of parliament |
Guido Calabresi | Yale | Magdalen | 1953 | American legal academic, Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, Professor and Dean at Yale Law School |
Ronald Dworkin | Harvard | Magdalen | 1953 | American legal philosopher, Academic |
Edward de Bono | Malta[23] | Christ Church | 1953 | Maltese writer; psychologist; author |
Julian Ogilvie Thompson | Diocesan College | Worcester | 1953 | South African Businessman, former chairman of De Beers and Anglo American |
Frank Wells | Pomona College | St. John's | 1953 | President of Warner Brothers and The Walt Disney Company |
Bob Hawke | Western Australia | University | 1953 | World record for the fastest consumption a yard glass of beer, President ACTU 1969–1979, Prime Minister of Australia 1983–1991 |
Laurie Ackermann | Cape Province[6] | Worcester | 1954 | Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa |
Leonard Hoffmann | Cape Town | Queen's | 1954 | UK Lord of Appeal in Ordinary |
Norman Cantor | Manitoba and Princeton | Oriel | 1954 | Canadian historian of the Middle Ages |
Richard Lugar | Denison | Pembroke | 1954 | U.S. Senator for Indiana, 1977- |
Paul Sarbanes | Princeton | Balliol | 1954 | U.S. Senator for Maryland, 1977–2007 |
Robert Paxton | Washington & Lee | Merton | 1954 | Historian, academic |
Ranjit Roy Chaudhury | India[6] | Magdalen | 1955 | Medical scientist |
John H. Morrison | New Mexico | University | 1955 | Senior partner, Kirkland & Ellis, and President of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars |
Reynolds Price | Duke | Merton | 1955 | Poet and novelist |
Johan Steyn | Cape Province[6] | University | 1955 | UK Lord of Appeal in Ordinary |
Ian Wilson | Adelaide | Magdalen | 1955 | Solicitor, company director, former Australian politician, Minister for Home Affairs and Environment, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs |
Neal Blewett | Tasmania | Jesus | 1956 | Australian academic, professor of politics, politician, cabinet minister, UK High Commissioner, etc. |
Virendra Dayal | India[6] | University | 1956 | Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations |
Willie Morris | Texas | New College | 1956 | Author, Editor Harper's Magazine (1967-1971) |
Chula De Silva | Ceylon | Trinity | 1956 | Lawyer and politician |
Elliott H. Levitas | Emory | University | 1956 | U.S. Congressman (Georgia), 1975–1985 |
Neil Leon Rudenstine | Princeton | New College | 1956 | Educator, President of Harvard University, 1991–2001 |
Arthur Kroeger | Alberta | Pembroke | 1956 | Canadian civil servant and diplomat, Chancellor of Carleton University, 1993–2002 |
Ranjit Bhatia | India[6] | Jesus | 1957 | Indian Olympic athlete |
Erich S. Gruen | Columbia | Merton | 1957 | Austrian-American classical scholar |
Rex Nettleford | Jamaica[6] | Oriel | 1957 | Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, author, dance director |
Robert I. Rotberg | Princeton | University | 1957 | American political scientist |
Aaron Sloman | Cape Town | Balliol | 1957 | Philosopher, AI researcher, Cognitive Scientist. |
Michael Fried | Princeton | Merton | 1958 | American art historian and critic |
Kris Kristofferson | Pomona | Merton | 1958 | American actor and musician |
Joseph Nye, Jr. | Princeton | Exeter | 1958 | American political scientist; Chairman National Intelligence Council (1993–1994); ASD for International Security Affairs (1994–1995); Dean, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard |
Jonathan Kozol | Harvard | Magdalen | 1958 | American writer and social activist |
Manmohan Malhoutra | Delhi | Balliol | 1958 | Assistant Secretary-General of the Commonwealth |
Richard Deane Terrell | Adelaide | Magdalen | 1959 | Econometrician and Vigneron, Vice-Chancellor, Australian National University, 1994–2000, Chairman, IELTS (Aust.) Pty Ltd 2002–2007, Chairman AARNET Pty Ltd 2002-, Chairman General Sir John Monash Foundation Investment Committee 2003-, CEO Quarry Hill Wines 2000- |
Desmond Morton | Royal Military College of Canada | Keble | 1959 | Historian and author |
Peter M. Dawkins | U.S. Military Academy | Brasenose | 1959 | 1958 Heisman Trophy Winner, Brigadier General, US Army (Ret. 1983), Chairman and CEO of Diversified Distribution Services, Travelers Group |
Shahid Javed Burki | Government College | Christ Church | 1960 | Economist, Finance Minister of Pakistan |
Richard F. Celeste | Yale | Exeter | 1960 | Governor of Ohio (1983–1991), Director of the Peace Corps, U.S. Ambassador to India, President of Colorado College |
Girish Karnad | Karnatak | Lincoln and Magdalen | 1960 | Indian Kannada-language playwright, film actor and director, screenwriter |
Lester C. Thurow | Williams | Balliol | 1960 | American economist and author, professor of economics at MIT |
Paul B. Van Buren | South Dakota | University | 1960 | A principal attorney for Pacific Telesis Group during the breakup of the Bell System, former chairman of The University of South Dakota Foundation |
David Souter | Harvard | Magdalen | 1961 | Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1990–2009 |
Rex Adams | Duke | Merton | 1962 | Chairman of the Board of PBS, Dean of the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University |
David B. Frohnmayer | Harvard | Wadham | 1962 | President of the University of Oregon, 1994-; Attorney General of Oregon, 1980–1991 |
Bryan Gould | Auckland | Balliol | 1962 | New Zealand born British politician, academic, Vice-Chancellor University of Waikato |
David Hodgson | Sydney | University | 1962 | Australian judge |
Paul Bamberg | Harvard | Balliol | 1963 | Senior Lecturer of Mathematics and Physics at Harvard University, Co-founded Dragon Systems and headed the research department that created Dragon NaturallySpeaking |
David Boren | Yale | Balliol | 1963 | Governor of Oklahoma, 1975–1979); U.S. Senator for Oklahoma, 1979–1994; President of the University of Oklahoma |
Walter B. Slocombe | Princeton | Balliol | 1963 | U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, 1994–2001, Senior Advisor for National Defense for the CPA, Baghdad, 2003 |
John Edgar Wideman | Pennsylvania | New College | 1963 | American writer, two-time recipient of PEN/Faulkner award |
Marcel Massé | McGill | 1963 | Canadian civil servant and politician. Clerk of the Privy Council, president of the Treasury Board and member of cabinet. | |
David R. Woods | Rhodes University | University | 1963 | Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University |
R. James Woolsey | Stanford | St John's | 1963 | Director of Central Intelligence, 1993–1995 |
Montek Singh Ahluwalia | St. Stephen's | Magdalen | 1964 | Indian economist, first independent evaluator of IMF, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India |
Robin Boadway | Royal Military College of Canada | Exeter | 1964 | Canadian economist and author |
Dyson Heydon | Sydney | University | 1964 | High Court Judge of Australia |
Shaukat Hameed Khan | University of the Punjab | Balliol | 1964 | Rector, GIK Institute, Director General Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Pride of Performance Recipient |
Larry Pressler | South Dakota | St Edmund | 1964 | American politician, U.S. Senator for South Dakota, 1979–1997 |
Wasim Sajjad | Army Burn Hall College | Wadham | 1964 | Pakistani politician and lawyer, Interim President of Pakistan, Chairman of the Senate |
J. Gustave Speth | Yale | Balliol | 1964 | Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, 1993–1999, Dean of School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale |
Bill Bradley | Princeton | Worcester | 1965 | American politician, NBA star, U.S. Senator for New Jersey, 1979–1997, and Democratic presidential candidate, 2000 |
Aftab Seth | India[6] | Christ Church | 1965 | Indian Ambassador to Japan |
Daryl Williams | Western Australia | Wadham | 1965 | Australian politician, Liberal Member of the House of Representatives, 1993–2004, Attorney-General of Australia 1996–2003 |
Wesley Clark | U.S. Military Academy | Magdalen | 1966 | United States Army general, Supreme Allied Commander, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1997–2000; Democratic presidential candidate, 2004 |
A. Michael Spence | Princeton | Magdalen | 1966 | Canadian economist, Nobel Prize in Economics for 2001 |
Thomas Frerking | Harvard | Trinity | 1966 | Abbot, Abbey of St. Mary and St. Louis |
David E. Kendall | Wabash | Worcester | 1966 | American lawyer, President Clinton's personal lawyer |
Terrence Malick | Harvard | Magdalen | 1966 | American film director of Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, Badlands, The New World, and The Tree of Life |
Thomas H. Allen | Bowdoin | Wadham | 1967 | American politician, U.S. Congressman (Maine), 1997–2009 |
John Doyle | Adelaide | Magdalen | 1967 | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, 1995- |
Karl Marlantes | Yale | University | 1967 | American Author, Matterhorn A Novel of the Vietnam War |
Deepak Nayyar | India[6] | Balliol | 1967 | Vice Chancellor of Delhi University |
Stephen A. Oxman | Princeton | New College | 1967 | U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs, 1993–1994, President of the Board of Trustees of Princeton University, 2006–present.[27] |
Dennis C. Blair | U.S. Naval Academy | University | 1968 | Retired 4-star Admiral, current Director of National Intelligence, President of the Institute for Defense Analyses and former Commander in Chief of U.S. Pacific Command |
Colin Bundy | University of the Witwatersrand | Merton | 1968 | Vice Chancellor Witwatersrand (1997–2001); Principal SOAS (2001–06); Deputy Vice Chancellor London (2003–06); Warden Green College (2006–08); Principal Green Templeton College (2008-) |
Peter Cameron | Queensland | Balliol | 1968 | Mathematician, academic |
Peter Conrad | Tasmania[6] | New College | 1968 | Academic (English literature) |
Robert McCallum, Jr. | Yale | Christ Church | 1968 | American lawyer, U.S. Associate Attorney General, 2003- |
Rex Murphy | Memorial University | St Edmund | 1968 | Canadian commentator |
Robert Reich | Dartmouth | University | 1968 | American commentator and author, U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1993–1997 |
Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. | Harvard | Exeter | 1968 | Publisher and CEO of The Washington Post |
Bill Clinton | Georgetown | University | 1968 | American politician, 42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001, Governor of Arkansas, 1979–1981 & 1983–1993 |
G. L. Peiris | Colombo | University | 1968 | Sri Lankan politician, 11th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka, 2010–present[28] |
William A. Fletcher | Harvard | Merton | 1968 | Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit |
Chris Laidlaw | Otago | Merton | 1968 | New Zealand All Black, diplomat, MP, talk radio host, author, Human Rights Commissioner and Race Relations Conciliator |
Strobe Talbott | Yale | Magdalen | 1968 | American diplomat and journalist, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (1994–2001), President of the Brookings Institution |
Ira Magaziner | Brown | Balliol | 1969 | White House Senior Aide, 1993–1999, originator of ICANN |
Selwyn Maister | Canterbury | Magdalen | 1969 | New Zealand Olympic field hockey player (1976) |
Bob Rae | Toronto | Balliol | 1969 | Canadian politician, former Premier of Ontario |
Danny Williams | Memorial University | Keble | 1969 | Lawyer and businessman, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador |
David Vernon Williams | Victoria (NZ) | Balliol | 1969 | New Zealand barrister, solicitor and academic |
James Fallows | Harvard | Queen's | 1970 | American writer (The Atlantic Monthly) |
Kenneth Hayne | Melbourne | Exeter | 1970 | Australian barrister, solicitor and judge: Supreme Court of Victoria (1992–95); Court of Appeals division of the Supreme Court of Victoria (1995–97); Puisne Justice of the High Court of Australia (1997-) |
Eric Redman | Harvard | Magdalen | 1970 | Staffer, US Senator Warren G. Magnuson (ca.1971); author, "The Dance of Legislation" (1973, 2000); lawyer and businessman[29] |
Geoffrey Robertson | Sydney | University | 1970 | Barrister and international human rights activist |
Richard H. Trainor | Brown and Princeton | Merton | 1970 | Principal of King's College London |
Franklin Raines | Harvard | Magdalen | 1971 | Chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae, 1999–2004; Director of the Office of Management and Budget, 1996–1998 |
Kurt Schmoke | Yale | Balliol | 1971 | Mayor of Baltimore, 1987–1999; Dean of Howard University School of Law |
James R. Atlas | Illinois[6] | New College | 1971 | American writer (The New Yorker) |
Geoff Gallop | Western Australia | St John's | 1972 | Academic, Premier of Western Australia, 2001–2006 |
Michael Kinsley | Harvard | Magdalen | 1972 | American journalist (Los Angeles Times), founder of Slate magazine, editor of The New Republic |
Don Siegelman | Georgetown and University of Alabama | 1972 | Governor of Alabama | |
Tom Birmingham | Harvard | Exeter | 1972 | President of the Massachusetts Senate, Candidate for Democratic nomination for Governor of Massachusetts, 2002 |
Kim Beazley | Western Australia | Balliol | 1973 | Australian politician, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Opposition |
Paul Blustein | Wisconsin[6] | Merton | 1973 | American author and journalist (The Washington Post) |
E. J. Dionne | Harvard | Balliol | 1973 | American journalist and Washington Post columnist |
Richard N. Haass | Oberlin | Wadham & St. Anthony's | 1973 | President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Director of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State, 2001–2003 |
Frank Klotz | U.S. Air Force Academy | Trinity | 1973 | U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General, first Commander Air Force Global Strike Command |
Alex Sceberras Trigona | Malta[23] | Oriel | 1973 | Foreign Minister of Malta 1981–1987 |
T. A. Barron | Princeton | . | 1974 | American author |
Rod Eddington | Western Australia | Lincoln | 1974 | Former CEO of British Airways, Director of News Corporation |
Charles Thomas McMillen | Maryland | University | 1974 | U.S. Olympian, NBA basketball player, U.S. Congressman (Maryland), 1987–1993 |
Walter Isaacson | Harvard | Pembroke | 1974 | Author, President of the Aspen Institute, Managing Editor of Time magazine (1995–2001), Chairman and CEO of CNN |
Elliot F. Gerson | Connecticut[6] | Magdalen | 1974 | American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, Vice President of the Aspen Institute, Deputy Attorney General of Connecticut |
Edwin Cameron | Stellenbosch University | Keble | 1975 | Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, African National Congress lawyer and AIDS activist |
Mike Fitzpatrick | Western Australia | St. John's | 1975 | Australian businessman, sporting administrator and former Australian rules footballer |
Larry Sabato | Virginia and Princeton | Queen's | 1975 | American political scientist and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics |
Russ Feingold | Wisconsin | Magdalen | 1975 | U.S. Senator for Wisconsin, 1993-2011 |
Michael L'Estrange | Sydney | 1975 | Australian diplomat and senior public servant | |
Michael Sandel | Brandeis | Balliol | 1975 | American political philosopher and professor at Harvard University |
Mel Reynolds | Illinois | Lincoln | 1975 | U.S. Congressman (Illinois), 1993–1995; convicted felon. |
Hans-Paul Bürkner | University of Bochum | St. Catherine's | 1976 | The current President and CEO of The Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm with annual revenue of US$2.75 billion |
John Hood | Auckland | Worcester | 1976 | New Zealand businessman, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford 2004–2009 |
Clayton Christensen | BYU | Queens | 1977 | Harvard Business School Professor, author |
Randall Kennedy | Princeton | Balliol | 1977 | Harvard Law School Professor |
James Belich | Victoria (NZ) | Nuffield | 1978 | New Zealand revisionist historian |
Eric Lander | Princeton | St John's | 1978 | Chair of U.S. President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Founder of the Human Genome Project, Biology Professor at MIT |
Pat Haden | USC | University | 1978 | Won Rose Bowl MVP as quarterback at USC, played with the Los Angeles Rams, currently the Athletic Director at his Alma Mater- USC |
Jack Phillips | McGill[6] | Balliol | 1978 | American Political Advisor and Inventor |
Malcolm Turnbull | Sydney | Brasenose | 1978 | Australian lawyer, banker and politician. Former Minister for Environment and Water Resources. Former Leader of the Australian Liberal party. |
David Naylor | Toronto | Hertford | 1979 | Canadian medical researcher, President of the University of Toronto |
Nancy-Ann Min DeParle | Tennessee | Balliol | 1979 | Administrator of the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration, 1997–2000, director of White House Office of Health Reform, 2009- |
Stephen Gumley | Tasmania | St. Catherine's | 1979 | Chief Executive Officer of the Defence Materiel Organisation (Australia) |
Robert Maloney | Harvard | Magdalen | 1979 | Ophthalmologist, LASIK specialist, Extreme Makeover ophthalmologist |
John MacBain | McGill | Wadham | 1980 | Canadian multi-billionaire, President and CEO of Trader Classified Media, one of the world's largest classified advertising companies |
Don Elder | Canterbury | Wolfson | 1980 | New Zealand engineer and businessman |
Clark Ervin | Harvard | St Catherine's | 1980 | Former Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
Elsdon Storey | Melbourne | Magdalen & Wolfson | 1980 | Australian neurologist |
Tony Abbott | Sydney | Queen's | 1981 | Australian politician, Former Minister of health and aging. Leader of Australian Liberal Party |
Nicholas D. Kristof | Harvard | Magdalen | 1981 | New York Times reporter and columnist, 2-time Pulitzer Prize winner |
Simon Upton | Auckland | Wolfson | 1981 | New Zealand politician and member of Parliament |
Benedict Kingsbury | Canterbury | Balliol | 1982 | New Zealand legal scholar, author and researcher, Professor at New York University |
Heather Wilson | U.S. Air Force Academy | Jesus | 1982 | U.S. Congresswoman (New Mexico), 1998-2009 |
Christopher Eisgruber | Princeton | University | 1983 | Provost of Princeton University[30] |
David Frederick | Pittsburgh | 1983 | Successful Appellate Attorney who has argued over 21 cases before the United States Supreme Court | |
Bill Halter | Stanford | St John's | 1983 | Arkansas Lt. Governor |
Elizabeth Kiss | Davidson | Balliol | 1983 | President of Agnes Scott College |
David Vitter | Harvard | Magdalen | 1983 | U.S. Senator (Louisiana), 2005- |
Richard Flanagan | Tasmania | Worcester | 1984 | Australian author, winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize |
Dominic Barton | British Columbia | Brasenose | 1984 | the current President/Head and Managing Director of McKinsey & Company, a multi-billion revenue consulting firm |
Brian Greene | Harvard | Magdalen | 1984 | American physicist and string theorist |
Christopher Hedrick | Stanford | Magdalen | 1984 | Peace Corps/Senegal Country Director, former President and CEO of Intrepid Learning Solutions |
Robert Malley | Yale | Magdalen | 1984 | Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs, National Security Council, 1997–2001 |
George Stephanopoulos | Columbia | Balliol | 1984 | Moderator of ABC's This Week and communications director for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign |
Roosevelt Thompson | Yale | St John's | 1984[31] | Community activist, Little Rock, Arkansas |
Peter Rathjen | Adelaide | New College | 1985 | Australian stem cell scientist, Vice-Chancellor, University of Tasmania 2011- |
Ronald J. Tenpas | Michigan State[6] | Balliol | 1985 | Associate Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, 2005- |
Naomi Wolf | Yale | New College | 1985 | American author and feminist social critic |
Chen Show Mao | Harvard | Corpus Christi | 1986 | Singaporean opposition politician and lawyer |
Bryan Horrigan | Queensland | University | 1986 | Australian researcher, consultant, commentator and professional speaker on specialised legal, business, and governmental topics |
Susan Rice | Stanford | New College | 1986 | U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, 1997–2001, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations, (2009–present) |
Graham Steele | Manitoba | St Edmund | 1986 | Minister of Finance of Nova Scotia (July 2009–Present), Member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (2001–Present) |
Joseph M. Torsella | Pennsylvania | New College | 1986 | President and CEO of the National Constitution Center 2006- |
David Chalmers | Adelaide | Lincoln | 1987 | Australian philosopher of mind |
Jim Collins | Holy Cross | Balliol | 1987 | Founder of Synthetic Biology; MacArthur "genius" bioengineer and inventor |
Atul Gawande | Stanford | Balliol | 1987 | Surgeon and New Yorker medical writer |
Sagarika Ghose-Sardesai | St. Stephen's College, Delhi | Magdalen and St. Antony's | 1987 | Indian journalist |
David Kirk | Otago | Worcester | 1987 | Captain of the New Zealand All Blacks who won the inaugural Rugby (Union) World Cup in 1987; CEO of Fairfax Media, 2005–2008 |
Jacob Weisberg | Yale | New College | 1987 | Journalist and editor of Slate magazine |
Ngaire Woods | Auckland | Balliol | 1987 | New Zealand-born British academic |
Richard Drayton | Harvard | Balliol | 1988 | Historian, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History |
Ceri Evans | Otago | Worcester | 1988 | New Zealand football (soccer) player, forensic psychiatrist |
Brad Carson | Baylor | Trinity | 1989 | U.S. Congressman (Oklahoma), 2001–2005 |
Michael Szonyi | Toronto | Merton | 1990 | Professor of Chinese history at Harvard University |
Arthur Mutambara | Zimbabwe | Merton | 1991 | Zimbabwean politician who became President of one faction of the Movement for Democratic Change in 2006 |
Cory Booker | Stanford | Queen's | 1992 | Mayor of Newark, New Jersey |
Noah Feldman | Harvard | Christ Church | 1992 | American author, Harvard University law professor, constitutional adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, 2003–2005 |
Nikolas Gvosdev | Florida[6] | St Antony's | 1992 | Editor of The National Interest |
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal | Brown | New College | 1992 | Governor of (Louisiana) 2008-, U.S. Congressman (Louisiana), 2005–2007, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, 2001–2004, President of the University of Louisiana System, 1999–2001 |
Sanjeev Sanyal | Delhi | St John's | 1992 | Asian economist, banker and conservationist |
Peter Beinart | Yale | University | 1993 | Editor of The New Republic |
Eric Garcetti | Columbia | Queen's | 1993 | President of the Los Angeles City Council |
Siddhartha Mukherjee | Stanford | Magdalen | 1993 | Physician, scientist and author, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, Professor at Columbia University |
Randal Pinkett | Rutgers | Keble | 1994 | President and CEO of BCT Partners, and winner of The Apprentice 4 |
Rachel Maddow | Stanford | Lincoln | 1995 | Host of The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC |
Alexander Straub | Darmstadt and Cornell | St John's | 1996 | London-based German Entrepreneur and Financier |
Simon Chesterman | Melbourne[32] | Magdalen | 1997 | International law professor and author |
Michael Fullilove | Sydney and NSW | Balliol | 1997 | Australian author and foreign policy commentator |
Simon Hollingsworth | Tasmania[33] | Exeter | 1997 | Australian Olympic (1992, 1996) and Commonwealth Games (1990, 1994) athlete (400m hurdles) |
Annette Salmeen | UCLA | St John's | 1997 | 1996 American Olympic gold medalist in swimming |
Rachel Simmons | Vassar | Lincoln | 1998 | American author of Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls (Harcourt, 2002) |
Ben Cannon | Washington University | Corpus Christi | 1999 | Oregon State Representative |
Marc Kielburger | Harvard | University | 1999 | Canadian humanitarian and activist, Free The Children |
Meghana Narayan | Bangalore | Oriel | 2000 | International Swimming Champion |
Fasi Zaka | Peshawar | Somerville | 2001 | Pakistani Political Columnist, Satirical TV Show Host, Radio Talkshow Host and Award Winning Advertiser |
Jonah Lehrer | Columbia | Wolfson | 2003 | Editor of Seed. Author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist and The Decisive Moment |
Jared Cohen | Stanford | St John's | 2004 | Youngest member of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Policy Planning staff |
Rosara Joseph | Canterbury | St John's | 2005 | New Zealand Commonwealth Games (2006) and Olympic (2008) cyclist |
Pete Buttigieg | Harvard | Pembroke | 2005 | Mayor-elect of South Bend, Indiana |
Garrett Johnson | Florida State | Exeter | 2005 | |
Myron Rolle | Florida State | St Edmund | 2008 | All-ACC defensive back for Florida State Seminoles; selected by the Tennessee Titans in the 6th round of the 2010 NFL Draft |
Kingwa Kamencu | University of Nairobi | Wolfson | 2009 | 2012 Presidential candidate for Kenya[34] |
Justine Schluntz | Arizona | St. John's | 2010 | 2010 NCAA Woman of the Year[35] |
Mari Rabie | Stellenbosch | St Catherine's | 2010 | 2008 Beijing Olympian and 2006 Commonwealth Games Triathlete |