List of alumni of University College, Oxford

University College, Oxford is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. Its alumni include politicians, lawyers, bishops, poets, and academics.

Alumni

The sub-headings are given as a general guide and some names might fit under more than one category.

Abbreviations used in the following tables

• M – Year of matriculation at University College (a dash indicates that the individual did not matriculate at the college)
• G – Year of graduation / conclusion of study at University College (a dash indicates that the individual graduated from another college)
• DNG – Did not graduate: left the college without taking a degree
• ? – Year unknown; an approximate year is used for table-sorting purposes.
• (F) after name – later became a Fellow of University College, and included on the list of Fellows
• (HF) after name – later became an Honorary Fellow of University College

Degree abbreviations

• Undergraduate degree: BA – Bachelor of Arts
• Postgraduate degrees:

The subject studied and the degree classification are included, where known. Until the early 19th century, undergraduates read for a Bachelor of Arts degree that included study of Latin and Greek texts, mathematics, geometry, philosophy and theology. Individual subjects at undergraduate level were only introduced later: for example, Mathematics (1805), Natural Science (1850), Jurisprudence (1851, although it had been available before this to students who obtained special permission), Modern History (1851) and Theology (1871). Geography and Modern Languages were introduced in the 20th century. Music had been available as a specialist subject before these changes; medicine was studied as a post-graduate subject.^[1]

Politicians and civil servants

Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee.

Bill Clinton.

Tan Jee Say.

Writers, philosophers, journalists, broadcasters and entertainers

• Peter Constandelis, Military historian and writer, BA in English
• John Finnis, natural law philosopher, Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy
• Edwin Arnold, poet, journalist, translator from Hindi
• Edward Enfield, broadcaster and writer
• Paul Foot, journalist and socialist
• Paul Gambaccini, presenter of and writer on pop music
• Maurizio Giuliano, writer, traveller, and United Nations official
• Gordon Honeycombe, actor & playwright
• Richard Jago, poet
• Armando Iannucci, comedian, writer, satirist and radio producer
• Richard Ingrams, co-founder of Private Eye
• Christina Lamb, journalist and author
• C. S. Lewis, writer, critic; was a student there from 1919 to 1923 (he had originally joined in 1917 but left soon afterwards after being called up for action in the Great War) and served as a Philosophy tutor from 1924 to 1925.^[2]
• Peter McDonald, poet
• Cecil Mercer, novelist
• Warren Mitchell, actor
• Chris McCooey, journalist
• Andrew Motion, British Poet Laureate
• Neel Mukherjee, novelist
• Shiva Naipaul, novelist and writer
• Sir V. S. Naipaul, writer and Nobel Laureate
• Nigel Playfair, actor and theatre manager
• James Ridley, author
• Mike Ratledge, keyboardist & composer
• Andrew Robinson, author and former newspaper editor
• Nick Robinson, journalist and BBC political editor
• Owen Jones, author and journalist
• Aubrey de Sélincourt, writer & classicist
• Ernest de Sélincourt, literary critic and editor
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet
• Peter Sissons, television newsreader
• Charles Sorley, poet
• Stephen Spender, poet and writer
• Mams Taylor, recording artist/songwriter, mixed-martial arts fighter and activist
• Philippa Thomas, Journalist and BBC reporter
• Raymond Wacks, Emeritus Professor of Law & Legal Theory, author
• Rajiva Wijesinha, writer
• Michael York, actor
• Andy Zaltzman, political comedian
• Rajdeep Sardesai, journalist

Scientists, inventors and engineers

Stephen Hawking.

Sports people

• Mark Evans, Canadian rower, Olympic Gold Medallist in the 8+, Los Angeles 1984 Olympics.
• Michael Evans, Canadian rower, Olympic Gold Medallist in the 8+, Los Angeles 1984 Olympics.
• Thomas Gubb, rugby union international, represented Great Britain on 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina
• Nick Mallett, Rugby player and coach
• Richard Nerurkar, Olympic athlete
• Acer Nethercott, British coxswain, Olympic Silver Medallist for GB 8+, Beijing 2008 Olympics.
• Tom Solesbury, GB pair, Beijing 2008 Olympics, and GB Quad, London 2012 Olympics.
• Adrian Stoop, Rugby player
• Ralph Williams, crickerer and barrister

Other

• William Beveridge, economist
• G.G. Bradley, noted Latinist, college master
• Lord Butler of Brockwell, civil servant, college master
• Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill Clinton, the 42nd U.S. President, and the former U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare, orientalist and religious thinker
• Kenneth Diplock, judge and Law Lord
• John Dyson Heydon, Justice of the High Court of Australia
• Michael Hoban, headmaster of Harrow
• Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin, historian
• David Hodgson, Australian judge
• Sir William Jones, discoverer of Sanskrit's relationship to Latin & Greek
• Luke McShane, Chess Grandmaster
• Monier Monier-Williams, linguist
• Walter Paton (1853–1937), English barrister who played for Oxford University in the 1873 FA Cup Final
• Gerald Graham Peel, composer
• John Radcliffe, Royal Physician to William & Mary
• Bruno Schroder, billionaire banker
• Sophie Solomon, violinist, songwriter and composer
• Sir Alan Stewart, founding vice-chancellor of Massey University, New Zealand
• Sir Peter Strawson, philosopher
• Felix Yusupov, participant in the murder of Grigori Rasputin
• William Stuart, Welsh jazz musician
• Israel Tonge, conspirator
• Simon Wessely, psychiatrist

See also

• Former students of University College
• Fellows of University College, Oxford

References

External links

• Famous alumni, Archive.org