List of University of Oxford people

The following persons attended the University of Oxford but did not necessarily complete a degree course there.

Heads of State and Heads of Government

Kings

King Abdullah II of Jordan
Edward VII of the United Kingdom (Christ Church)
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (Magdalen)
Harald V of Norway (Balliol)
Olav V of Norway
Ahmad Shah of Malaysia (Worcester)
Tuanku Abdul Halim of Malaysia (Wadham)
Tuanku Jaafar of Malaysia (Balliol)
William II of the Netherlands

Presidents and Prime Ministers (international)

Solomon Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike President of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka) 1956-59
Benazir Bhutto (Lady Margaret Hall) Prime Minister of Pakistan
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (Christ Church) President of Pakistan 1971-1973, Prime Minister 1973-1977
Bill Clinton (University) President of the USA 1993-2001
Malcolm Fraser Prime Minister of Australia 1975-1983
Penaia Ganilau (Wadham) President of Fiji 1987-1993
John Gorton Prime Minister of Australia 1968-1971
Bob Hawke (University) Prime Minister of Australia 1983-1991
Seretse Khama (Balliol) First President of Botswana
Liaquat Ali Khan Prime Minister of Pakistan
John Kufuor President of Ghana 2001-
Farooq Leghari President of Pakistan 1993-1997
Kamisese Mara(Wadham) Prime Minister of Fiji 1967-1987, 1987-1992, President of Fiji 1993-2000
Festus Mogae President of Botswana 1998-
Viktor Orbán (Pembroke) Prime Minister of Hungary 1998-2002
Lester Bowles Pearson Prime Minister of Canada 1963-1968
Wasim Sajjad President of Pakistan
Manmohan Singh (Nuffield) Prime Minister of India 2004-
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy Prime Minister of Pakistan 1956-57
John Napier Turner Prime Minister of Canada 1984
Eric Williams Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago 1956-1981

UK Prime Ministers

Earl of Wilmington 1742-1743 (Trinity)
Henry Pelham 1743-1746 (Hart Hall)
Earl of Bath (Christ Church)
George Grenville 1763-1765 (Christ Church)
Earl of Chatham 1766-1768 (Trinity)
Lord North 1770-1782 (Trinity)
Earl of Shelburne 1782-1783 (Christ Church)
Duke of Portland 1783, 1807-1809 (Christ Church)
Henry Addington 1801-1804 (Brasenose)
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville 1806-1807 (Christ Church)
Earl of Liverpool 1812-1827 (Christ Church)
George Canning 1827 (Christ Church)
Robert Peel 1841-1846 (Christ Church)
Earl of Derby 1852, 1858-1859, 1866-1868 (Christ Church)
William Gladstone 1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1886, 1892-1894 (Christ Church)
Marquess of Salisbury 1885-1886, 1886-1892, 1895-1902 (Christ Church)
Earl of Rosebery 1894-1895 (Christ Church)
Herbert Asquith 1908-1916 (Balliol)
Clement Attlee 1945-1951 (University)
Anthony Eden 1955-1957 (Christ Church)
Harold Macmillan 1957-1963 (Balliol)
Alec Douglas-Home 1963-1964 (Christ Church)
Harold Wilson 1964-1970, 1974-1976 (Jesus)
Edward Heath 1970-1974 (Balliol)
Margaret Thatcher 1979-1990 (Somerville)
Tony Blair 1997- (St John's)

Saints

The following saints are recognised by the Catholic, but not the Anglican faith:

Other Notable Alumni

Joseph Addison (Queen's/Magdalen)
Kingsley Amis (St. John's)
Martin Amis (Exeter)
G. E. M. Anscombe (St. Hugh's)
Rowan Atkinson (Queen's College)
Aung San Suu Kyi (St. Hugh's)
Alfred Ayer (Christ Church)
Roger Bacon
Alan Bennett (Exeter)
Jeremy Bentham (Queen's)
Isaiah Berlin
Tim Berners Lee (Queen's)
Robert Boyle
Richard Burton (actor) (Exeter)
Richard Burton (orientalist) (Trinity)
Lewis Carroll (Christ Church)
Barbara Castle (St. Hugh's)
Wesley Clark
Richard Curtis
Robertson Davies
Richard Dawkins (Balliol)
Angus Deayton (New)
Daniel Dennett
John Donne (Hertford)
Alfred Douglas (Magdalen)
Ronald Dworkin (Magdalen)
T. S. Eliot (Merton)
Niall Ferguson (Magdalen)
Paul Foot (University)
Michael Foot (Wadham)
Geoffrey Gallop (St. John's)
Timothy Garton Ash (Exeter/St. Antony's)
Peter Geach (Balliol)
Edward Gibbon (Magdalen)
William Golding (Brasenose)
Hugh Grant (New)
Robert Graves (St. John's)
Edmond Halley (Queen's)
Stuart Hampshire (Balliol)
R. M. Hare (Balliol)
Stephen Hawking (University)
Nick Hawkins (Lincoln)
Alan Hollinghurst (Magdalen)
Robert Hooke (Christ Church)
A. E. Housman (St. John's)
Ian Hislop (Magdalen)
Edwin Hubble (Queen's)
Aldous Huxley (Balliol)
Armando Iannucci (University)
Richard Ingrams (University)
Roy Jenkins (Balliol)
Boris Johnson (Balliol)
Samuel Johnson (Pembroke)
Terry Jones (St. Edmund Hall)
Benjamin Jowett (Balliol)
Imran Khan (Keble)
Kris Kristofferson (Merton)
Philip Larkin (St. John's)
William Laud (St. John's)
T. E. Lawrence (Jesus/All Souls)
Barbara Levick (St. Hugh's/St. Hilda's)
C. S. Lewis (University/Magdalen)
John Locke (Christ Church)
Colin Lucas (Lincoln)
Peter Mandelson (St. Catherine's)
Colin McGinn
Dudley Moore (Magdalen)
Andrew Motion (University)
Iris Murdoch (Somerville/St. Anne's)
Rupert Murdoch (Wadham)
V. S. Naipaul (University)
Thomas Nagel
Cardinal Newman (Trinity)
William of Ockham (Merton)
Michael Palin (Brasenose)
Derek Parfit (Balliol/All Souls)
Chris Patten (Balliol)
Robert Peel (Christ Church)
Melanie Phillips (St. Anne's)
Matthew Pinsent(St Catherine's)
Philip Pullman (Exeter)
John Radcliffe
Fazlur Rahman
Walter Raleigh (Oriel)
Simon Rattle (St. Anne's)
William Rees-Mogg (Balliol)
Cecil Rhodes (Oriel)
A. L. Rowse (Oriel/All Souls)
Dorothy L. Sayers (Somerville)
John Duns Scotus
Percy Bysshe Shelley (University)
Peter Singer (University)
Adam Smith (Balliol)
Frederick Soddy (Merton)
Galen Strawson
P. F. Strawson
A. J. P. Taylor (Oriel)
J. R. R. Tolkien (Exeter)
Evelyn Waugh (Hertford)
John Wain (St. John's)
John Wesley (Christ Church)
Oscar Wilde (Magdalen)
Andrew Wiles (Merton)
Bernard Williams (Balliol/All Souls)
Rowan Williams (Christ Church/Wadham)
Shirley Williams (Somerville)
Jeanette Winterson (St. Catherine's)
Stephen Wolfram (St. John's)
Cardinal Wolsey (Magdalen)
Christopher Wren (Wadham)
John Wyclif
Hugo Young (Balliol)