List of people associated with Balliol College, Oxford
The following is a list of notable people educated at Balliol College, Oxford.
See also
Economics
- Sir William Ashley
- William Beveridge
- G.D.H. Cole
- Gavyn Davies
- Charles Stanton Devas
- Francis Edgeworth
- John Hicks
- Donald Macdougall
- Walter Rostow
- Adam Smith
- Lester Thurow
History
- James H. Billington
- Daniel J. Boorstin
- Manning Clark
- Donald Creighton
- Charles Harding Firth
- Keith Hancock
- Christopher Hill
- H.J.R. Murray
- Lewis Namier
- Richard Southern
- R.H. Tawney
- Arnold J. Toynbee
- Patrick Wormald
Law
- Henry Bathurst
- Peter Benenson
- Thomas Bingham
- Charles Bowen
- George Carman
- Joseph Chitty
- John Coleridge
- Thomas Coventry
- Albert Venn Dicey
- Charles Isaac Elton
- John Marshall Harlan II
- Brian Hutton
- Nicholas Katzenbach
- Roger Ludlow
- Mathew Thorpe
- Theodore Tylor
Letters / Arts
- Archibald Alison
- Harold Boulton
- Sydney Carter
- John Churton Collins
- Cyril Connolly
- David Daiches
- Robertson Davies
- Dan Davin
- Kenneth Dover
- Robinson Ellis
- John Evelyn
- Henry Watson Fowler
- Graham Greene
- Inglis Gundry
- L. P. Hartley
- Aldous Huxley
- Julian Huxley
- Sidney Lee
- John Gibson Lockhart
- Howard Marks
- Ved Mehta
- David Binning Monro
- John Nichol
- John Beverley Nichols
- Anthony Powell
- Peter Quennell
- Robert Scott
- Nevil Shute
- George Steiner
- John Addington Symonds
- Laurence Whistler
Mathematics/Science/Technology
- Baruch Blumberg
- E. J. Bowen
- James Bradley
- Richard Dawkins
- Dudd Dudley
- Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
- R. V. Jones
- Anthony James Leggett
- Christopher Longuet-Higgins
- Holbrook Mann MacNeille
- Donald Michie
- Henry John Stephen Smith
- Bill Smythies
- James Stirling
- William Spottiswoode
- Gilbert Strang
- J.H.C. Whitehead
- Robin Wilson
Media
- David Astor
- Maurice Gorham
- Christopher Hitchens
- Henry Vincent Hodson
- John Keegan
- Andrew Knight
- Charles Krauthammer
- Raymond Massey
- William Rees-Mogg
- John Schlesinger
- Peter Snow
- Hugo Young
Other
- Leonard Barden
- Gerald Hillman
- Nicola Horlick
- Philip Mayer Kaiser
- John Aidan Liddell V.C. M.C.
- Geoff Mulgan
- Leif Mills
- William Monson
- Nawab of Pataudi
- Richard Sharp
- John Templeton
- Sir Adrian Carton De Wiart V.C., K.B.E.,C.B.,C.M.G.,D.S.O.
- Arthur Rhys Davids DSO, MC (With Bar).
Philosophy
- J. L. Austin
- Roy Bhaskar
- Thomas Hill Green
- William Hamilton
- Peter Geach
- Stuart Hampshire
- R. M. Hare
- C.E.M. Joad
- Anthony Kenny
- John Lucas
- John Macmurray
- Richard Lewis Nettleship
- Derek Parfit
- David George Ritchie
- F.C.S. Schiller
- Bernard Williams
- John Cook Wilson
- Richard Wollheim
Howard Marx
Poetry
- Matthew Arnold
- Hilaire Belloc
- Henry Charles Beeching
- Andrew Cecil Bradley
- Charles Stuart Calverley
- Sydney Bertram Carter
- Arthur Hugh Clough
- Edward Dyer
- Julian Grenfell
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Andrew Lang
- Francis Turner Palgrave
- F. T. Prince
- Christopher Ricks
- William Young Sellar
- John Campbell Shairp
- Robert Southey (did not graduate)
- Eric Stenbock
- Patrick Shaw-Stewart
- Algernon Swinburne (rusticated 1859)
Politics
Currently in Parliament
- Eric Avebury (Lords)
- Alan Beith
- Yvette Cooper
- Damian Green
- Boris Johnson
- Robert Maclennan (Lords)
- Patrick Mayhew (Lords)
- Chris Patten (Lords)
- James Purnell
- Charles Tannock (MEP)
- Stephen Twigg Lost seat 2005
- William Waldegrave (Lords)
- Tony Wright
UK politicians active post-World War II
- Dingle Foot
- Bryan Gould
- Jo Grimond
- Denis Healey
- Edward Heath
- Roy Jenkins
- Crawford Murray MacLehose
- Harold Macmillan
- Walter Monckton
- Frank Soskice
- Dick Taverne
- Mike Woodin
UK politicians active between World War I and World War II
- Leo Amery
- Herbert Asquith
- George Nathaniel Curzon
- Aubrey Herbert
- Alfred Milner
- Harold Nicolson
- Herbert Samuel
UK politicians pre-World War I
Politicians/statesmen/monarchs in non-UK countries
Religion
- George Abbot
- John Bell
- Lionel Blue
- Israel Brodie
- John Douglas
- Shoghi Effendi
- Frederick William Faber
- Austin Farrer
- Cardinal Heard
- Ronald Knox
- Cosmo Lang
- Henry Manning
- John Morton
- Henry Oxenham
- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
- Archibald Campbell Tait
- Frederick Temple
- William Temple
- John Wycliffe
- Thomas More Suggested but undocumented