List of University of Oxford people in academic disciplines

This is a list of people from the University of Oxford in academic disciplines. Many were students at one (or more) of the colleges of the University, and others held fellowships at a college.

This list forms part of a series of lists of people associated with the University of Oxford; for other lists, please see the main article List of University of Oxford people.

Law

*William Reynell Anson (Balliol and All Souls) Warden of All Souls 1881–1913, Member of Parliament 1899–1905
*Charles Arnold-Baker (formerly Wolfgang Charles Werner von Blumenthal) (Magdalen)
*Andrew Ashworth (Worcester and All Souls)
*Peter Birks (Trinity, Brasenose, and All Souls) Hon QC 1995, President Society of Legal Scholars 2002–03
*John Behan (Hertford and University) Warden Trinity College, Melbourne 1918–46
*Kenneth Beaumont Chairman International Civil Aviation Organisation 1946–57 (President Legal Committee 1954–57)
*Francis Bennion (Balliol) Parliamentary Counsel 1953-65 and 1973-75, Lecturer University of Oxford 1984-2002
*William Blackstone (Pembroke, All Souls, and New Inn Hall) MP & QC 1761, first Vinerian Professor at Oxford
*Paul-André Crépeau Director Institute of Comparative Law McGill University 1974–84
*Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech (St Anne's) Chair HFEA 1994–2002, Gov BBC 2002–06, Independent Adjudicator for Higher Educn 2004–
*A. V. Dicey (Balliol) Professor of Law at Oxford and the LSE
*Ronald Dworkin (Magdalen and University) Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale, Oxford, & UCL
*John Eekelaar (Pembroke) expert in family law, Reader in Law University of Oxford 1991–
*Malcolm Evans (Regent's Park) Prof Public International Law Bristol 99–, Hd of Law 03–05, Dean of Soc Sciences & Law 05–
*Noah Feldman Professor of Law New York University School of Law
*John Finnis (University) Professor of Law at the Universities of Oxford and Notre Dame
*Mark Freedland (St John's) expert in employment law
*John Gardner (New College, All Souls, Brasenose, and University) Professor of Jurisprudence University of Oxford
*Leslie Green (Nuffield, Lincoln, Balliol) Prof of the Philosophy of Law Oxford, Prof of Law Osgoode Hall Law Sch, York Univ, Canada
*H. L. A. Hart (New College, University, and Brasenose) Author of The Concept of Law (1961)
*Tony Honoré (New College, The Queen's and All Souls) Regius Prof Civil Law Oxford 1971–88, Hon QC, Bencher of Lincoln's Inn
*Elena Kagan (Worcester) Dean Harvard Law Sch & Chas Hamilton Houston Prof of Law Harvard Univ 2003–
*Neil MacCormick (Balliol) Regius Prof of Public Law & the Law of Nature & Nations Edinburgh 1972–, MEP 1999–2004
*Basil Markesinis (St Antony's, Lady Margaret Hall, and Brasenose) Professor at Queen Mary, UCL, Oxford, & Texas (Austin)
*Peter North (Jesus) [cite journal |year=2004 |title=And Finally... |journal=Jesus College Record |publisher=Jesus College, Oxford |last=North|first=Sir Peter|authorlink=Peter North (academic)|pages=13 ]
*Fidelis Oditah (Magdalen and Merton) QC, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, gubernatorial candidate Delta State 2007
*Joseph Raz (Nuffield and Balliol) sometime Professor of the Philosophy of Law University of Oxford
*Richard Searby Lecturer Univ of Melbourne 1961–72, QC 1971, Chancellor Deakin Univ 1997–2005
*Travers Twiss (University) Professor at Oxford & King's Coll London, author constitution of Congo Free State (1884)
*Theodore Tylor (Balliol) Fellow & Tutor in Jurisprudence, international chess player, worked for blind people

Theology and the Study of Religions

*Marilyn McCord Adams (Christ Church)
*Henry Airay (St Edmund Hall and The Queen's)
*James Alison (Blackfriars) priest, Order of Preachers 1981-95
*Karen Armstrong (St Anne's)
*John Barton (Oriel) Oriel and Laing Professor, Canon Theologian Winchester Cathl, member of Gen Synod
*Gareth Bennett (New College)
*John Bowker (Worcester) Prof of RS Lancaster 1974-84, Trinity Coll Cambridge 1984-93, Gresham Prof of Divinity 1992-97
*George Granville Bradley (University) Hdmaster of Marlborough Coll 1858-70, Dean of Westminster 1881-1902
*Reginald John Campbell (Christ Church) sometime minister of the City Temple
*Edward Cardwell (Brasenose)
*John Chapman (Christ Church) Abbot of Downside 1929-33
*William Robinson Clark (Hertford)
*William Cole (Corpus Christi)
*Kenneth Cracknell
*Herbert Danby (Keble and Christ Church)
*Douglas Davies
*Christopher Dawson (Trinity)
*John Day (Lady Margaret Hall)
*Gregory Dix (Merton and Keble)
*C. H. Dodd
*David L. Edwards (Magdalen and All Souls) Dean of Norwich 1978-83, Provost of Southwark 1983-94
*Robert Ellis (Regent's Park)
*Mark Elvins (Greyfriars)
*Austin Farrer (Balliol, St Edmund Hall, Trinity, and Keble)
*John Fell (Christ Church)
*Paul S. Fiddes (St Peter's and Regent's Park)
*Richard Fiddes
*Richard Finn (Corpus Christi)
*John Foxe (Brasenose and Magdalen)
*Richard Hurrell Froude (Oriel)
*Paul Gifford
*Timothy Gorringe (St Edmund Hall and St John's) St Luke's Professor of Theological Studies University of Exeter 1998-
*Renn Dickson Hampden (Oriel, St Mary Hall, and Christ Church) bishop of Hereford 1847-68
*Daphne Hampson
*Tom Harpur
*James Hervey (Lincoln)
*George Hickes (St John's, Lincoln, Magdalen College, Magdalen Hall) dean of Worcester 1683-88, bp of Thetford 1694
*Leonard Hodgson (Hertford, St Edmund Hall, Magdalen, Christ Church) Regius Professor of Divinity 1944-1958
*Humphrey Hody (Wadham)
*Henry Scott Holland (Christ Church)
*S. H. Hooke (Jesus)
*Richard Hooker (Corpus Christi)
*Lawrence Humphrey (Magdalen)
*William Ince (Lincoln, Exeter, Christ Church)
*E. O. James (Exeter)
*David Jasper (St Stephen's House)
*Jerome of Prague
*Jeffrey John (Hertford, St Stephen's, Brasenose, Magdalen) Dean of St Albans 2003-
*John Keble (Christ Church)
*Fergus Kerr (Blackfriars)
*Andrew Linzey (Blackfriars)
*John Lowe (Christ Church)
*Herbert McCabe (Blackfriars)
*Diarmaid MacCulloch (St Cross)
*Alister McGrath (Merton, Wycliffe Hall, and Harris Manchester)
*John Macquarrie (Christ Church)
*Adam Marsh (Greyfriars)
*Peter Martyr Vermigli (Regius Professor of Divinity)
*Geoffrey of Monmouth
*Max Müller (Christ Church and All Souls)
*Oliver O'Donovan (Christ Church and Wycliffe Hall)
*J. I. Packer (Corpus Christi and Wycliffe Hall)
*Peter Payne (St Edmund Hall)
*Robert Payne Smith (Christ Church) Dean of Canterbury 1871-95
*Arthur Peacocke (Exeter, St Peter's and Christ Church)
*Edward Pusey (Christ Church)
*Timothy Radcliffe (Blackfriars)
*William Salesbury
*Jane Shaw (Regent's Park and New College)
*Richard Smyth (Merton, Christ Church, and St Alban Hall)
*Vincent Strudwick (Kellogg)
*George Tabert (Wolfson)
*Iain Torrance (Oriel) Moderator Gen Assembly Church of Scotland 2003-4, Pres Princeton Theological Seminary 2004-
*John Trevisa (The Queen's)
*William Tyndale (Hertford)
*Richard Ullerston (The Queen's)
*Henry Wace (Brasenose)
*William Wall (The Queen's)
*Henry Wansbrough (St Benet's) Pontifical Biblical Commission 1996-, Prior of Norwich 2004-
*Keith Ward (Linacre and Christ Church)
*William George Ward (Christ Church and Lincoln)
*H. Wheeler Robinson (Mansfield and Regent's Park)
*Maurice Wiles (Christ Church)
*William of Alnwick
*William of Ware
*John Williams (Jesus) [cite web|url=http://wbo.llgc.org.uk/en/s-WILL-JOH-1811.html| title=WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ab Ithel; 1811–1862), cleric and antiquary|last=Jenkins|first=Robert Thomas|work=WBO |accessdate=2007-07-22]
*John Wyclif (Balliol)
*Robert Charles Zaehner (Christ Church)

Historians

*Harold Acton (Christ Church)
*Anne Applebaum (St Antony's)
*Timothy Garton Ash (Exeter and St Antony's)
*Richard J. C. Atkinson (Magdalen)
*Geoffrey Barraclough (All Souls)
*Max Beloff, Baron Beloff (Corpus Christi, Nuffield, All Souls, and St Antony's)
*Mary Bennett (Somerville and St Hilda's)
*Robert Blake, Baron Blake (Christ Church)
*Brian Bond (Worcester)
*Daniel J. Boorstin (Balliol)
*Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (Nuffield and Worcester)
*Archie Brown (St Antony's)
*Alan Bullock, Lord Bullock of Leafield (New College and St Catherine's)
*Colin Bundy (Merton, St Antony's, Kellogg, and Green)
*Montagu Burrows (All Souls)
*Richard Carew (Christ Church)
*Humphrey Carpenter (Keble)
*Sir Raymond Carr (Christ Church, New College, All Souls and St Antony's)
*Allan Chapman (Wadham)
*George Clark (Balliol, All Souls, and Oriel)
*Robert Conquest (Magdalen)
*Gordon A. Craig (Balliol)
*Mandell Creighton (Merton)
*Vincent Cronin (Trinity)
*Robert Darnton
*Sir Rees Davies (All Souls)
*H. W. C. Davis (Balliol, All Souls, New Coll, Oriel) Ed DNB 1919-28, Prof History Manchester 1921-25, Oxford 1925-28
*R. H. C. Davis (Balliol and Merton) Prof of Medieval History Birmingham University 1970-84
*William Deakin (Christ Church)
*Michael Duffy
*John Elliott (Oriel)
*Robert Ensor (Balliol and Corpus Christi)
*Robert Evans (Oriel)
*Cyril Falls (All Souls)
*Keith Feiling (Balliol, Christ Church, and All Souls)
*Niall Ferguson (Magdalen)
*Charles Harding Firth (Balliol, Pembroke, and All Souls)
*Herbert Fisher (New College) Member of Parliament 1916-26
*Eric Foner (Oriel)
*Amanda Foreman (Lady Margaret Hall)
*Lady Antonia Fraser (Lady Margaret Hall)
*Edward Augustus Freeman (Trinity)
*James Anthony Froude (Oriel and Exeter)
*Thomas Gaisford (Christ Church)
*Henry de Beltgens Gibbins (Wadham)
*N. H. Gibbs (Magdalen, Merton, and All Souls)
*Robert Gildea
*Lawrence Goldman (St Peter's) Editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004-
*John Habakkuk (All Souls and Jesus) [cite journal |last= Thomas|first=Sir Keith |authorlink=Keith Thomas (historian)|year=2003 |title=Memorial Service for Sir Hrothgar John Habakkuk |journal=Jesus College Record |publisher=Jesus College, Oxford |pages=31–39 ]
*Irfan Habib (New College)
*Keith Hancock (Balliol and All Souls)
*Clarence H. Haring (New)
*John Hattendorf (Pembroke)
*Peter Heather (New College and Worcester)
*Peter Heylin (St John's)
*Christopher Hibbert (Oriel)
*Christopher Hill (Balliol)
*George Holmes (All Souls)
*Albert Hourani (Magdalen and St Antony's)
*Michael Howard (Christ Church, Oriel, and All Souls)
*Clay S. Jenkinson (University)
*Roderick Kedward (St Antony's)
*Elspeth Kennedy (Somerville and St Hilda's)
*Paul Kennedy (St Antony's)
*Walid Khalidi
*Alan Kreider (Regent's Park)
*John La Nauze
*John Landers (Hertford and All Souls)
*Paul Langford (Hertford and Lincoln)
*Frances Lannon (Lady Margaret Hall)
*Peter L'Estrange (Campion Hall)
*Barbara Levick (St Hugh's and St Hilda's)
*Colin Lucas (Lincoln)
*Roderick MacFarquhar (Keble) Member of Parliament 1974-79
*Piers Mackesy (Oriel, Christ Church, and Pembroke)
*Margaret MacMillan (St. Antony's)
*Robert K. Massie
*John Masterman (Worcester and Christ Church)
*Henry Mayr-Harting (Merton, St Peter's, and Christ Church)
*Mark Mazower
*Josef W. Meri (Wolfson)
*Henry Hart Milman (Brasenose) Dean of St Paul's 1849-68
*Leslie Mitchell (University)
*W. L. Morton
*Joseph Nye (Exeter)
*Avner Offer (Nuffield and All Souls)
*Charles Oman (New College and All Souls)
*Robert J. O'Neill (All Souls)
*Ilan Pappe (St Antony's)
*H. R. S. Pocock (Pembroke)
*Frederick York Powell (Christ Church and Oriel)
*Maurice Powicke (Balliol)
*N.A.M. Rodger (University)
*Emma Georgina Rothschild
*A. L. Rowse (Christ Church, Oriel, and All Souls)
*Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell (Merton)
*James R. Russell
*Dominic Sandbrook (Balliol)
*Frank Schulman
*Paul Slack (Exeter and Linacre)
*Frederick Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead (Christ Church)
*Goldwin Smith (Magdalen and University)
*R. W. Southern (All Souls)
*Hew Strachan (All Souls)
*William Stubbs (Christ Church, Trinity, and Oriel) bishop of Chester 1884-89, bishop of Oxford 1889-1901
*Ernest Swinton (All Souls)
*Oliver Taplin (Magdalen)
*R. H. Tawney (Balliol) president of the Workers Educational Association 1928–44
*A. J. P. Taylor (Oriel)
*Martin Thomas
*Keith Thomas (Balliol, All Souls, St John's, and Corpus Christi)
*Elizabeth Topham Kennan
*Arnold J. Toynbee (Balliol)
*Rick Trainor (Merton)
*Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (Christ Church)
*Ann Trindade (Lady Margaret Hall)
*Kenneth Turpin (Oriel)
*J. M. Wallace-Hadrill (All Souls)
*Veronica Wedgwood (Lady Margaret Hall)
*Christopher Wickham (All Souls)
*Spenser Wilkinson (All Souls)
*A. N. Wilson (New College and St Stephen's House)

Classicists, Byzantinists, Archaeologists

*Michael Angold
*Charles Badham (Wadham)
*Richard Bentley (Wadham)
*William Borlase (Exeter)
*Glen Bowersock (Balliol) Prof of Classics & History Harvard University 1969-80, Prof of Ancient History Institute for Advanced Study 1980-2006
*Maurice Bowra (New College and Wadham)
*Peter Brown (New College and All Soul's)
*P. A. Brunt (Oriel and Brasenose)
*William Camden (Magdalen, Christ Church, and the former Broadgates Hall)
*Averil Cameron (Keble)
*Henry Chadwick (Christ Church)
*G. E. M. de Ste Croix (New College)
*Robinson Ellis (Balliol and Trinity)
*W. H. C. Frend (Keble)
*Edward Gibbon (Magdalen) Member of Parliament 1774-83
*Jasper Griffin (Balliol)
*Francis J. Haverfield
*Simon Hornblower (Oriel) Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History University College London
*Joan M. Hussey (St Hugh's)
*Benjamin Jowett (Balliol)
*Kathleen Kenyon (Somerville)
*Francis Leddy (Exeter)
*Henry Liddell (Christ Church)
*Martin Litchfield West (St John's, University, and All Souls)
*William Walter Merry (Balliol)
*Fergus Millar (Brasenose)
*Teresa Morgan (Oriel)
*Gilbert Murray (Christ Church)
*John Julius Norwich (John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich)
*Dimitri Obolensky (formerly Prince Dmitriy Dmitrievich Obolensky) (Christ Church)
*William Mitchell Ramsay (St John's, Exeter, and Lincoln)
*Nicholas Richardson (Magdalen, Pembroke, Trinity, Merton, and Greyfriars)
*Katherine Routledge (Somerville)
*William Young Sellar (Balliol and Oriel)
*A. N. Sherwin-White (St John's)
*John Sparrow (New College and All Souls)
*William Archibald Spooner (New College)
*Ronald Syme (Oriel, Trinity, Brasenose, and Wolfson)
*Emily Vermeule
*J. B. Ward-Perkins (New College)

Modern Languages

*Malcolm Bowie (All Souls)
*George Alfred Kolkhorst (Exeter)
*Malcolm Pasley (Trinity, The Queen's, and Magdalen)
*T. J. Reed (The Queen's)
*Graham Robb (Exeter)
*Mark Southern (Balliol)

Philosophers

*Theodor Adorno (Merton)
*Virgil Aldrich
*Archibald Alison (Balliol)
*Pamela Sue Anderson (Mansfield and Regent's Park)
*G. E. M. Anscombe (St Hugh's)
*Robin Attfield (Christ Church and Regent's Park)
*J. L. Austin (Balliol)
*Alfred Ayer (Christ Church)
*Roger Bacon (Greyriars)
*Gordon Baker (The Queen's, St John's)
*Jeremy Bentham (The Queen's)
*Isaiah Berlin (Corpus Christi and All Souls)
*Roy Bhaskar (Baillol)
*Brand Blanshard
*Elisabeth Blochmann (Lady Margaret Hall)
*Edward de Bono (Christ Church)
*Thomas Browne (Pembroke)
*David Chalmers (Lincoln)
*Gerald Cohen (All Souls)
*R. G. Collingwood (Magdalen)
*Gregory Currie (St John's)
*Brian Davies (Blackfriars)
*Daniel Dennett
*John Theophilus Desaguliers (Christ Church and Hart Hall)
*Michael Dummett (Christ Church and All Souls)
*Dorothy Edgington (St Hilda's)
*Gareth Evans (University)
*Antony Flew (St John's)
*Luciano Floridi (St Cross)
*Philippa Foot (Somerville)
*Peter Geach (Balliol)
*Celia Green (Somerville)
*Paul Grice (Corpus Christi)
*Robert Grosseteste (Greyfriars) bishop of Lincoln 1235-53
*Þorsteinn Gylfason (Magdalen)
*Susan Haack
*Peter Hacker (The Queen's, St Antony's, Balliol, and St John's)
*Stuart Hampshire (Balliol)
*R. M. Hare (Balliol)
*Thomas Hobbes (Hertford)
*C. E. M. Joad (Balliol)
*Anthony Kenny (St Benet's, Balliol, St John's)
*Peter J. King (Brasenose and Pembroke)
*Brian Klug (St Benet's)
*Leszek Kołakowski (All Souls)
*Stephen Law (Trinity and The Queen's)
*John Locke (Christ Church)
*John Lucas (Balliol)
*Colin McGinn
*Henry Longueville Mansel (St John's and Magdalen) Dean of St Paul's 1868-71
*Mary Midgely (Somerville)
*Max More (Max T. O'Connor) (St Anne's)
*Thomas Nagel
*Sari Nusseibeh (Christ Church) President of Al-Quds University
*Michael Oakeshott (Nuffield)
*William of Ockham (Merton)
*Derek Parfit (Balliol and All Souls)
*Christopher Peacocke (Exeter, The Queen's, All Souls, New College, and Magdalen)
*David Pearce
*Jonathan Rée
*W. D. Ross (Balliol and Oriel)
*Alan Ryan (Balliol and New College)
*Gilbert Ryle (Christ Church)
*Julian Savulescu (St Cross)
*John Duns Scotus
*John Rogers Searle (Christ Church)
*Peter Singer (University)
*Aaron Sloman (Balliol and St Antony's)
*Galen Strawson
*Peter Strawson (St John's, University, and Magdalen)
*Ralph Strode (Merton)
*Charles Taylor (Balliol and All Souls)
*Geoffrey Warnock (Hertford)
*Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock (Lady Margaret Hall and St Hugh's)
*Ronald Lampman Watts (Oriel) Principal of Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) 1974–84
*Kathy Wilkes (St Hilda's)
*Bernard Williams (Balliol and All Souls)
*Kwasi Wiredu (University)

Economists

*William Ashley (Balliol and Lincoln)
*Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh (Balliol)
*Marian Bell (Hertford)
*David Bensusan-Butt (Nuffield)
*William Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge (Balliol)
*Shahid Javed Burki (Christ Church)
*Frances Cairncross (St Anne's and Exeter)
*G. D. H. Cole (Balliol and University)
*Howard Davies (Merton) Director LSE, formerly Chmn FSA, Dep Gov Bank of England, DG CBI, Controller Audit Commn
*Andrew Dilnot (St John's)
*Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (Balliol)
*Amelia Fletcher
*Andrew Graham (Balliol)
*Roy Harrod (Christ Church)
*John Hicks (Balliol)
*John A. Hobson (Lincoln)
*Harry Hodson (Balliol and All Souls)
*Lawrence Klein (Lincoln)
*James Meade (Oriel)
*James Mirrlees (Nuffield)
*Gunnar Myrdal (Balliol)
*Stephen Nickell (Nuffield) Prof Economics LSE 1998-2006, Member Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee 2000-06
*Paul Ormerod (St Catherine's)
*James Robertson (Balliol)
*Walt Whitman Rostow (Balliol)
*Ernst Schumacher
*Amartya Sen (Nuffield and All Souls)
*Adam Smith (Balliol)
*Alasdair Smith
*Robert Solow (Balliol)
*Michael Spence (Magdalen)
*Joseph E. Stiglitz (All Souls and St Catherine's)
*Fabian Tassano (New College)
*Lester Thurow (Balliol)
*Barbara Ward (Somerville)
*Sufiah Yusof (St Hilda's)

Geography

*Andrew Goudie (Hertford and St Cross)
*Halford John Mackinder (Christ Church) Director LSE 1903–08, Member of Parliament 1910–22
*Nick Middleton (St Anne's)

Anthropology and ethnography

*Madawi Al-Rasheed (Nuffield)
*Marius Barbeau (Oriel)
*John Davis (University and All Souls)
*E. E. Evans-Pritchard (Exeter and All Souls)
*Ernest Gellner (Balliol)
*Max Gluckman (Exeter)
*Stuart Hall (Merton)
*Earnest Hooton
*E. O. James (Exeter)
*Hugh Kawharu (Exeter)
*Robert Ranulph Marett (Exeter)
*James Cowles Prichard (St John's and Trinity)
*Walter Baldwin Spencer (Exeter and Lincoln)
*Colin Turnbull (Magdalen)

ociology

*John Goldthorpe (Nuffield)
*Steven Lukes (Balliol, Nuffield, and Worcester)
*Bryan Wilson (All Souls)
*Gordon Marshall (Nuffield) V-C University of Reading, formerly Chief Exec Economic & Social Research Council
*Ted Nelson (Wadham)
*Ann Oakley (Somerville)
*Sheila Rowbotham (St Hilda's)

Politics, political philosophy, and international relations

*Christopher Brewin (St John's and Christ Church)
*James Burnham (Balliol)
*Alex Callinicos (Balliol)
*James Corry Principal of Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) 1961-68
*David Dilks (Hertford, St Antony's, & All Souls) Vice Chancellor of the University of Hull 1991–99
*Samuel Finer (Trinity and Balliol)
*Sir Lawrence Freedman
*Nikolas Gvosdev (St Antony's)
*Fred Halliday (The Queen's)
*Ted Hodgetts Principal Victoria College Toronto 1967–69, President Victoria University 1970–72
*Raghavan N. Iyer (Magdalen, Nuffield, and St Antony's)
*Moses Morgan President of Memorial University of Newfoundland 1973–81
*Thomas Nossiter (Exeter and Nuffield) Professor of Government LSE 1989–94
*Anne-Marie Slaughter (Worcester) Dean Woodrow Wilson Sch of Public & International Affairs Princeton Univ
*Helen Wallace, Baroness Wallace of Saltaire
*Graham Wallas (Corpus Christi)
*Naomi Wolf (New College)

Asian studies

*Ian Buruma (St Antony's)
*David Hawkes (All Souls)
*Jessica Rawson (Merton)
*William Edward Soothill
*Richard Carnac Temple
*Richard Olaf Winstedt (New College)

Mathematicians and statisticians

*John Macleod Ball
*Simon Bredon (Balliol and Merton)
*Mary Cartwright (St Hugh's)
*Marcus du Sautoy (All Souls and Wadham)
*Leslie Fox (Christ Church and Balliol)
*Brian Greene
*Edmund Gunter (Christ Church)
*Peter Hilton (The Queen's) Professor Univ of Birmingham, Cornell Univ, Case Western Reserve Univ, Binghamton Univ, and Univ of Central Florida
*Nigel Hitchin (Jesus, Wolfson, and New College)
*Ioan James (The Queen's and New College)
*Frances Kirwan (Magdalen and Balliol)
*Ruth Lawrence (St Hugh's)
*Holbrook Mann MacNeille (Balliol)
*Claus Moser, Baron Moser (Nuffield and Wadham)
*Bernard Silverman (University and St Peter's)
*Henry John Stephen Smith (Balliol)
*G. Spencer-Brown (Christ Church)
*Martin J. Taylor (Pembroke) Prof Pure Mathematics UMIST 1986-2004, Manchester 2004-, Pres London Mathematical Soc 1998-2000, Vice-Pres Royal Soc 2004-
*Richard Taylor (New College)
*J. H. C. Whitehead (Balliol and Magdalen)
*Andrew Wiles (Merton)

cientists

Naturalists, botanists, and zoologists

*Joseph Banks (Christ Church)
*Jonathan Borwein (Jesus) [cite web| url=http://users.cs.dal.ca/~jborwein/CV/node2.html#SECTION00020000000000000000| title=Borwein's CV at the Dalhousie University website| accessdate=2007-07-23]
*Sydney Brenner (Exeter)
*John Bretland Farmer (Magdalen)
*Anne Brewis (Somerville)
*Francis Trevelyan Buckland
*William Buckland (Christ Church)
*Neil Chalmers (Magdalen and Wadham)
*Ian Chubb
*Richard Dawkins (Balliol)
*Jeremy Greenwood (St Catherine's)
*J. B. S. Haldane (New College)
*W. D. Hamilton (New College)
*Alister Hardy (Exeter, Merton, and Manchester)
*John Kidd (Christ Church)
*John Krebs (Pembroke and Jesus) [cite journal |last=Clarke |first=Peter |year=2004 |title=Editorial |journal=Jesus College Record| publisher=Jesus College, Oxford |pages=4 ] [cite web|url=http://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/staff/principal.php| title=Lord Krebs| date=16 May 2007 |publisher=Jesus College, Oxford |accessdate=2007-07-14]
*Amory Lovins (Magdalen and Merton)
*Anne McLaren (Lady Margaret Hall)
*Peter Medawar (Magdalen)
*Gavin Maxwell (Hertford)
*Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (Merton)
*Robert Plot (Magdalen Hall)
*David Quammen (Merton)
*Matthew Ridley (Magdalen)
*Charles Sherrington (Magdalen)
*Richard Southwood (Merton)
*Nikolaas Tinbergen (Merton)

Medicine

*Donald Acheson (Brasenose and University) Chief Medical Officer 1983–1991
*Henry Wentworth Acland (Christ Church and All Souls)
*Josephine Barnes (Lady Margaret Hall)
*George Wells Beadle (Balliol)
*Claude Bertrand
*Baruch Samuel Blumberg (Balliol)
*Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain
*Robert Burton (Brasenose)
*Sheila Cassidy (Somerville)
*Ernest Chain (University)
*Richard Doll (Christ Church)
*John Carew Eccles (Magdalen)
*J. R. Evans President University of Toronto 1972–78, Director Population, Health, & Nutrition World Bank 1979–83
*William Feindel (Merton)
*Howard Florey (Lincoln, The Queen's, and Magdalen)
*John Freind (Christ Church)
*Archibald Garrod (Christ Church)
*Atul Gawande (Balliol)
*Roy Meadow (Worcester)
*Richard Morton (Magdalen Hall)
*David Naylor (Hertford) President University of Toronto 2005–
*Paul Nurse (Linacre)
*Severo Ochoa
*William Osler (Christ Church)
*Wilder Penfield
*Thomas Phaer sometime Member of Parliament for Cardigan
*Rodney Porter (Trinity)
*John Radcliffe (University)
*Oliver Sacks (The Queen's)
*Cicely Saunders (St Anne's)
*Charles Singer (Magdalen)
*Oliver Smithies (Balliol)
*Elsdon Storey
*Thomas Stuttaford (Brasenose) The Times medical expert, Member of Parliament 1970–74
*John Robert Vane (St Catherine's)
*Arthur Vidrine
*Diana Walford (Mansfield)
*Thomas Willis (Christ Church)

Psychologists, psychiatrists, and physiologists of the brain

*Stephen J. Bergman (Samuel Shem) (Balliol)
*Wilfred Bion (The Queen's)
*Chris Brand (The Queen's and Nuffield)
*Donald Broadbent (Wolfson)
*Fiona Caldicott (St Hilda's and Somerville)
*Gordon Claridge (Magdalen)
*Hervey M. Cleckley
*Simon Baron-Cohen (New College)
*Adrian Furnham (Pembroke)
*Jeffrey Alan Gray (Magdalen)
*Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield (St Hilda's and Lincoln)
*Miles Hewstone (New College)
*Charles McCreery (New College and Magdalen)
*Edward Thomas Monro (Oriel)
*Henry Monro (Oriel)
*James Monro (Balliol)
*John Monro (St John's and University)
*Thomas Monro (Oriel)
*Shirley Pearce (St Anne's)
*Adrian Raine
*Edmund Rolls (Corpus Christi)
*Stuart Sutherland (Magdalen)
*Lawrence Weiskrantz (Magdalen)
*Simon Wessely (University)

Chemists

*Mary Archer, Baroness Archer of Weston-super-Mare (St Anne's)
*Peter Atkins (Lincoln)
*Robert Boyle (University)
*Abdus Suttar Khan (St. Catherine's)
*E. J. Bowen (Balliol)
*Humphry Bowen (Magdalen)
*David Clary (St John's and Magdalen)
*John Cornforth (St Catherine's)
*Charles Daubeny (Magdalen)
*Roger Gaudry Rector Université de Montréal 1965–75
*Dalziel Hammick (Magdalen)
*Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (Balliol)
*Dorothy Hodgkin (Somerville)
*Frederick L. Hovde
*Jeremy Knowles (Balliol and Wadham)
*Michael Mingos (Keble and St Edmund Hall)
*Robert Mulliken (St John's)
*Linus Pauling (Balliol)
*Rex Richards (Lincoln, Exeter, and Merton)
*Robert Robinson (Magdalen)
*Francis Simon (Christ Church)
*James Smithson (Pembroke)
*Frederick Soddy (Merton)
*Alexander Todd (Oriel)
*John E. Walker (St Catherine's)
*Michael Stanley Whittingham
*Ahmed Zewail (St Catherine's)

Physicists and astronomers

Astronomers Royal

*Edmund Halley (The Queen's) 1720–42
*James Bradley (Balliol) 1742–62
*Nathaniel Bliss (Pembroke) 1762-64
*Martin Ryle (Christ Church) 1972–82

Other physicists and astronomers

*Roger Cashmore (Balliol, University, Christ Church, Merton, and Brasenose)
*Stephen Hawking (University)
*Robert Hooke (Christ Church)
*Edwin Hubble (The Queen's)
*Daniel Faraday (University)
*Leonard Huxley
*Anthony Leggett
*Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (Christ Church)
*John Maddox (Christ Church)
*Roger Penrose
*Norman Ramsey (Balliol)
*Erwin Schrödinger (Magdalen)
*John Hasbrouck van Vleck (Balliol)
*Denys Wilkinson (Christ Church)
*Stephen Wolfram (St John's)

Computers, electronics, and robotics

*Samson Abramsky (Wolfson)
*Tim Berners Lee (The Queen's)
*Richard Bird (Lincoln)
*Jonathan Bowen (University)
*David Gavaghan (New College)
*Joseph Goguen (St Anne's)
*Ralph Hartley
*C. A. R. Hoare (Merton)
*Cliff Jones
*Peter Mosses (Trinity and Wolfson)
*Mike Reed (St Edmund Hall)
*Bill Roscoe (University)
*Martin Smith (St John's)
*Joe Stoy (Balliol)
*Christopher Strachey
*David Turner
*Robert J. Van de Graaff
*Jim Woodcock (Kellogg)

Engineering and agriculture

*Roger Ainsworth (Jesus and St Catherine's) [cite journal |last=Clarke |first=Peter|year=2002 |title=Fellows' News |journal=Jesus College Record| publisher=Jesus College, Oxford|pages= 18] [cite web|url=http://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/academic_staff_pages/ainsworth_roger.htm|title=Professor Roger Ainsworth|publisher=St Catherine's College, Oxford|accessdate=2007-07-15]
*William Froude (Oriel)
*E. Peter Raynes (St Cross)
*Jethro Tull (St John's)
*Kevin Warwick (Somerville)
*Martin Wood (Christ Church)

Geology

*William Joscelyn Arkell (New College)
*Donald Ferlys Wilson Baden-Powell (Oriel)
*Malcolm Brown (St Cross)
*Colin Campbell (Wadham)
*Keith Cox (The Queen's and Jesus)
*Charles Lyell (Exeter)
*Hugh Edwin Strickland (Oriel)

Meteorology

*Patrick McTaggart-Cowan (Corpus Christi)

References

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* [http://wbo.llgc.org.uk/en/index.html Welsh Biography Online] (The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion of London and National Library of Wales). Cited in references as: "WBO".;Specific