List of New College people
This is a list of notable people affiliated with New College, Oxford University, England, including former students, and current and former academics and fellows.
:See also List of Wardens of New College, Oxford.
Former students
- Robert Alston, British diplomat
- Michael Baldwin, Xristos
- Simon Baron-Cohen, professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of Cambridge
- Kate Beckinsale, actor
- Tony Benn, Labour Party politician
- Peter Bergen, political journalist and author
- Tim Boswell, former Conservative MP
- Gyles Brandreth, writer and broadcaster, former Conservative MP for Chester
- David Butler, psephologist
- Henry Chichele, English archbishop
- G. A. Cohen, political philosopher
- Gary Cooper, musician and conductor
- Michael Crick, journalist
- Sir T.W. Edgeworth David (1858-1934) Australian geologist, academic, polar explorer, soldier, public figure
- Angus Deayton, comedian, actor, television presenter
- Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German film director
- John Farthing, Canadian philosopher and economist
- Jonathan Fenby, journalist, writer and former Editor of The Observer and the South China Morning Post
- Bram Fischer, South African lawyer, defended Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia Trial
- John Fowles, novelist
- Hugh Gaitskell, Labour Party leader (1955–63)
- Patrick Gale, novelist
- John Galsworthy, novelist and playwright
- John Gardner, Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford
- Robert P. George, Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
- Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley, British judge
- Victor Gollancz, publisher
- Hugh Grant, actor
- Irfan Habib, Padma Bhushan, Indian historian; Emeritus Professor of History, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
- Mohammad Habib, Indian historian; Emeritus Professor of History, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
- General Sir John Hackett, soldier, university administrator
- J. B. S. Haldane, Biologist
- William Reginald Halliday, historian and archaeologist
- Christopher Hampton, playwright and screenwriter
- H. L. A. Hart, former Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford
- Saiyid Nurul Hasan, Governor of West Bengal and Orissa
- Arthur Cayley Headlam, theologian
- Peter Hobbs, novelist
- Adrian Holman, British diplomat
- William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury (1828-48)
- Thomas Hughes, footballer who won the FA Cup twice in the 1870s
- The Ven. John Ingram, English Jesuit and martyr
- Douglas Jardine, cricketer
- Robert Jay, Counsel to the Leveson Inquiry and now High Court Judge
- Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana
- Brian Johnston, broadcaster and cricket commentator
- Rachel Johnson, journalist
- Ian Katz, journalist
- Oliver Kamm, journalist, Times leader writer, former hedge fund manager
- Randal Keynes, conservationist
- Sophie Kinsella, 'chick lit' novelist
- Harold Laski, political scientist
- John Lennard, Professor of British and American Literature, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica,
- Andro Linklater (born 1944), historian
- Edward Luce, journalist
- Charles McCreery, psychologist and author
- Neil MacGregor, art historian, Director of the British Museum
- Dambudzo Marechera, Zimbabwean novelist
- Sir Henry Martin, MP for Oxford University, matr: New College, Oxford on 24 November 1581
- Douglas McLean, rower in the Boat Race five times and winner at Henley Royal Regatta
- Hector McLean, rowed in the Boat Race and won Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta with his brother Douglas McLean
- Jamie McIntosh, Canadian abolitionist
- Sir Frank Meyer, businessman and Conservative MP
- Nathaniel Micklem, Liberal Party politician
- Nathaniel Micklem, theologian, son of the above
- Alasdair Milne, BBC Director General (1982-87)
- Kate Mosse, novelist
- Sir Albert Napier, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office
- Junzaburō Nishiwaki, Japanese poet
- Richard Ollard, historian and biographer
- Rageh Omaar, broadcast journalist
- G. L. Peiris, Sri Lankan politician and academic
- Sally Phillips, actress and writer
- Dennis Potter, playwright and journalist
- Gerald Priestland, broadcaster and journalist
- Nigel Rees, broadcaster and author
- Susan Rice, American diplomat
- Sir Bernard Rix (Lord Justice Rix), Judge, a Lord Justice of Appeal
- Alan Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry, Scottish-born Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
- Neil Rudenstine, former President of Harvard University
- Oliver Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill, peer, rower and administrator who served as the Governor of Madras
- Anthony Russell-Roberts, businessman and opera manager
- Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi, United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
- Madhavrao Scindia, Indian Cabinet Minister and Member of Parliament
- Paul Seabright, economist
- Tim Sebastian, broadcast journalist
- Mel Smith, comedian and film director
- David Verney, 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke, UKIP peer
- Toby Spence, opera singer (tenor)
- Rick Stein, chef, restaurateur and television presenter
- Adam Thirlwell, novelist
- Frank Thompson, SOE officer
- Alan Thornhill, Sculptor
- Daniel Topolski, rowing coach for Oxford, author of True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny
- Francis Turner, 17th century Bishop of Ely
- Julian Turner, poet
- William Warham, former Archbishiop of Canterbury
- Robert Penn Warren, poet, novelist and literary critic
- William Waynflete (though the validity of this claim is doubtful – see his page for further discussion)
- Geoffrey Wheatcroft, journalist and author
- John Edgar Wideman, American writer, Professor at Brown University
- Benjamin Whitaker Labour politician and former MP
- Richard Wilberforce Baron Wilberforce
- A. N. Wilson, author and journalist
- Naomi Wolf, American feminist
- James Woodforde, clergyman
- Philip Ziegler, historian
- Frank R. Palmer, linguist, lecturer at the University of Reading
Fellows and Lecturers
- Michael Atiyah
- A. J. Ayer
- Isaiah Berlin
- Alan Bullock
- Paul Campbell
- Raymond Carr
- David Cecil
- Richard Crossman
- Richard Dawkins
- Robin Lane Fox
- W. D. Hamilton
- G. H. Hardy
- H. L. A. Hart
- Nigel Hitchin
- Julian Huxley
- Willis Lamb
- Hermione Lee
- Rudolf Peierls
- Craig Raine
- Marcus du Sautoy
- Jane Shaw
- Joe Silk
- William Archibald Spooner
- Christopher Tolkien
- Harold Wilson