List of alumni of University College, Oxford

Alumni

• M – Year of matriculation at University College
• G – Year of graduation / conclusion of study at University College
• DNG – Did not graduate: left the college without taking a degree
• ? – Year unknown; an approximate year is used for table-sorting purposes.
• after name – later became a Fellow of University College, and included on the :Category:Fellows of University College, Oxford|list of Fellows
• after name – later became an Honorary Fellow of University College

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

Politicians and civil servants

• Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool, longest-serving President of the Board of Trade, namesake of the Hawkesbury River
• William Windham, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
• William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell, Camden Reader of Ancient History, judge of the Admiralty Court, MP for Oxford University
• Sir Roger Newdigate, MP for Middlesex and for Oxford University, establisher of the Newdigate Prize
• Lord Butler of Brockwell, civil servant, college master
• Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor, MP for Salisbury

  Clergy

• George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury
• John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York
• Anthony Fisher, Catholic Archbishop of Sydney 2014–present, Bishop of Parramatta 2010–2014
• Richard Fleming, bishop of Lincoln
• George Horne, bishop of Norwich
• Herbert Sidney Pelham, bishop of Barrow-in-Furness 1926–1944
• Richard Godfrey Parsons, bishop of Middleton 1927–32, bishop of Southwark 1932–41, bishop of Hereford 1942–48
• Grandage Edwards Powell, bishop of Penrith 1939-44
• Tom Longworth, bishop of Pontefract 1939–49, bishop of Hereford 1949–61
• Peter Mumford, bishop of Hertford 1974–81, bishop of Truro 1981–89
• Malcolm Menin, bishop of Knaresborough 1986–97
• Christopher Chessun, Bishop of Southwark 2011–present, Bishop of Woolwich 2005-2011
• Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster 1863-81, Rector of St Andrews 1874-77
• Charles Boyd, Archdeacon of Colombo

  Artists and writers

• Edwin Arnold, poet, journalist, translator from Hindi
• Peter Bayley, literary critic
• Augustus Hare, writer
• Michael Brand, composer
• W. G. Collingwood, artist
• Kodwo Eshun writer, theorist and filmmaker
• Maurizio Giuliano, writer, traveller, and United Nations official
• Armando Iannucci, comedian, writer, satirist and radio producer
• Richard Ingrams, co-founder of Private Eye
• Richard Jago, poet
• Gerard Langbaine, biographer
• C. S. Lewis, writer, critic; student there from 1919 to 1923 ; Philosophy tutor from 1924 to 1925
• Peter McDonald, poet
• Cecil Mercer, novelist
• Andrew Motion, British Poet Laureate
• Neel Mukherjee, novelist
• Shiva Naipaul, novelist and writer
• Sir V. S. Naipaul, writer and Nobel Laureate
• Andrew Robinson, author and former newspaper editor
• Aubrey de Sélincourt, writer and classicist
• William Shawcross, chairman of the Charity Commission for England and Wales, writer
• Desmond Shawe-Taylor, artist
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet
• Sophie Solomon, violinist, songwriter and composer
• Charles Sorley, poet
• Stephen Spender, poet and writer
• Mams Taylor, recording artist/songwriter, mixed-martial arts fighter and activist
• Rajiva Wijesinha, writer
• Fabian S. Woodley, poet
• Braham Murray, theatre director

  Philosophers and theologians

• F. H. Bradley, Idealist philosopher
• Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare, orientalist and religious thinker
• A. C. Ewing, philosopher
• A. D. Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, Scottish political philosopher and historian of philosophy, Master of Balliol College, Oxford
• R. G. Collingwood, Idealist philosopher and archaeologist
• Gareth Evans, philosopher of language and mind, Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy
• Kwasi Wiredu, Ghanaian philosopher
• Willie E. Abraham, Ghanaian philosopher, first African fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
• John Finnis, Australian legal philosopher
• Mark de Bretton Platts, philosopher of language
• Peter Singer, Australian moral and political philosopher, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics
• Jeremy Waldron, New Zealander political and legal philosopher, former Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory
• Owen Fiss, American jurist, Sterling Professor
• Mortimer Sellers, American jurist
• Irving Singer, American philosopher
• David O. Brink, American moral and political philosopher

  Broadcasters, journalists and entertainers

• Peter Beinart, The New Republic 1999–2006, editor-at-large 2006–
• Nick Denton, founder of Gawker media
• Edward Enfield, broadcaster and writer
• Paul Foot, journalist and socialist
• Paul Gambaccini, presenter of and writer on pop music
• Gordon Honeycombe, actor and playwright
• Tom Hooper, Academy Award-winning director
• Aboubakr Jamaï, journalist
• Owen Jones, author and journalist
• Christina Lamb, journalist and author
• Warren Mitchell, actor
• James Owen, writer and journalist
• Nigel Playfair, actor and theatre manager
• Mike Ratledge, keyboardist and composer
• James Ridley, author
• Nick Robinson, journalist and BBC political editor
• Rajdeep Sardesai, journalist
• Peter Sissons, television newsreader
• Philippa Thomas, journalist and BBC reporter
• Alex Thomson, television journalist
• Michael York, actor
• Andy Zaltzman, political comedian

  Scientists, inventors and engineers

• Bob Allen, surgeon

  Social scientists, historians and philologists

• Sir William Jones, Anglo-Welsh philologist, discoverer of Sanskrit's relationship to Latin and Greek
• Hedley Bull, Australian scholar of international relations
• E. R. Dodds, Irish classicist, Regius Professor of Greek
• Norman Hampson, historian of the French Revolution
• Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin, historian
• Christopher Fyfe, historian of west Africa
• Geoffrey Serle, Australian historian
• Monier Monier-Williams, linguist, Boden Professor of Sanskrit
• Ernest de Sélincourt, literary critic and editor
• James Franck Bright, historian, Master of University College, Oxford
• E. V. Gordon, Canadian philologist, editor and teacher of medieval Germanic languages

  Sports people

• Francis Birley, three-time winner of the FA Cup in the 1870s
• Mark Evans, Canadian rower, Olympic Gold Medallist in the 8+, Los Angeles 1984 Olympics
• J. 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
• Charles Thomas McMillen, retired NBA professional basketball player, US congressman
• Richard Nerurkar, Olympic athlete
• Acer Nethercott, British coxswain, Olympic silver medallist for GB 8+, Beijing 2008 Olympics
• James Parker, rower
• Tom Solesbury, GB pair, Beijing 2008 Olympics, and GB quad, London 2012 Olympics
• Adrian Stoop, rugby player
• Ralph Williams, cricketer and barrister

  Judges and lawyers

• Christian Cole, Inner Temple member and first black graduate of Oxford University
• Kenneth Diplock, judge and Law Lord
• Andrew Edis, judge
• Robert A. Gorman, law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• John Dyson Heydon, Justice of the High Court of Australia
• David Hodgson, Australian judge
• Jonathan Mance, Baron Mance, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
• Walter Paton, English barrister who played for Oxford University in the 1873 FA Cup Final
• Geoffrey Robertson, human rights barrister, academic, author and broadcaster
• Joseph Santamaria, Judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria
• Raymond Wacks, Emeritus Professor of Law and Legal Theory, author
• Sir John Richardson, Puisne Judge of Common Pleas
• Sir David Edward KCMG PC QC FRSE, Scottish lawyer and academic, Judge of the European Court of Justice

  Military

• Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, general, Governor-General of India
• Bernard W. Rogers, four-star general, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army
• John Rawlins, surgeon vice-admiral, Medical Director-General of the Royal Navy

  Business people

• Simon Thompson, chairman of 3i, former chairman of the Tarmac Group and Tullow Oil
• Edward W. Scott, founder of BEA Systems and former senior United States government official

  Other

• G.E. Berrios, Professor of the Epistemology of Psychiatry, Cambridge University
• G.G. Bradley, noted Latinist, college master
• Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill Clinton, the 42nd U.S. President, and the former U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton
• Katharine Ellis, music historian
• David Hatendi, banker, founder of Hatendi Private Equity Advisors, Zimbabwe's first black Rhodes Scholar.
• Michael Hoban, headmaster of Harrow School
• Luke McShane, chess Grandmaster
• Joseph Bennet Odunton, Ghanaian public servant, first black African to hold appointment at the Buckingham Palace
• Bruno Schroder, billionaire banker
• Sir Alan Stewart, founding vice-chancellor of Massey University, New Zealand
• Edward Maunde Thompson, Principal Librarian British Museum 1888–98, Director and Principal Librarian 1898–1909
• Israel Tonge, conspirator
• Felix Yusupov, participant in the murder of Grigori Rasputin