University of Oxford: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Oxford University
Date c. 1101 - present
Notable Alumni Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey • Sir Michael Ernest Sadler • C.S. Lewis • J.R.R. Tolkien • Paul Grice • Charles Taylor • Richard Dawkins • E.E. Evans-Pritchard • Sir Michael A.E. Dummett • Andrew Wiles • John D. Barrow • Sir Edwin Ray Lankester • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch • Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood • Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey • Frederick Soddy • Sir Erskine Holland • Sir Charles Firth • William Grocyn • Theresa May • Adam Smith • Tony Blair • William Pitt, the Elder • Christopher Wren • Viktor Orbán • Bill Clinton • Thomas More • John Searle • William Ewart Gladstone • Wes Moore • Rishi Sunak • Imran Khan • Blessed John Duns Scotus • Lewis Carroll • Aung San Suu Kyi • Keir Starmer • Oscar Wilde • Rachel Cusk • Abdul El-Sayed • Sir Richard Burton • St. John Henry Newman • Sir Philip Sidney • Margaret Thatcher • Robert Peel • John Wycliffe • John Schlesinger • Indira Gandhi • Mark Carney • Clement Attlee • William of Ockham • George Canning • Edmond Halley • Edwin Hubble • Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury • Emerald Fennell • Malcolm Turnbull • Pete Buttigieg • Kris Kristofferson • Andrew Lloyd Webber • H.H. Asquith, 1st earl of Oxford and Asquith • Mahamudu Bawumia • Gemma Chan • Malala Yousafzai • Sir Walter Raleigh • Susan Rice • William Golding • Halford Mackinder • Cory Booker • Andy Kim • Benazir Bhutto • Pedro Pablo Kuczynski • Yvette Cooper • Iris Murdoch • Peter Mandelson • Rachel Maddow • Dorothy Hodgkin • Tony Abbott • Chelsea Clinton • John Wesley • Emma Walmsley • Iain Douglas-Hamilton • Oliver Sacks • Simon Johnson • Emma Watson • Rowan Atkinson • Ben Sasse • Cardinal George Pell • Eric Garcetti • Harold Macmillan • Emily Davison • William Jefferson Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond • Girish Karnad • Richard Flanagan • Hugh Grant • Philip Pullman • Harold Wilson • Daniel C. Dennett • John Galsworthy • Tina Brown • Stephen Breyer • John Edgar Wideman • Derek Parfit • Atishi • John le Carré • John le Carré • Charles A. Beard • Sir Charles Frank • Edward VII • David Vitter • Zulfikar Ali Bhutto • Richard Adams • Sister Wendy Beckett • Sir Edward Heath • Robert Moses • Ed Balls • John Marston • Jonathan Sacks • George Saintsbury • John Redwood • Tony Hall • Stephen Wolfram • John Kufuor • Tony Richardson • Thomas L. Friedman • V.S. Naipaul • Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig • Tim Berners-Lee • Anthony Eden • John Bowen • Peter J. Ratcliffe • Sir Peter B. Medawar • Sir Stephen Spender • Baruch S. Blumberg • Sir Thomas Overbury • Pawel Pawlikowski • Nicholas Udall • A.S. Byatt • Stephen Hawking • Humphrey Gilbert • Amos Oz • Gertrude Bell • Charles Wesley • John Lyly • Kate Millett • Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark • St. Edmund of Abingdon • Sir John Carew Eccles • Caryl Churchill • Bertil Ohlin • Bill Bradley • Sir Angus Wilson • Max Beerbohm • George Steiner • Carl Albert • Sir Tyrone Guthrie • Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey of Riddlesden • Les Aspin • Nicanor Parra • Sir Cyril Burt • Alain Locke • Edgar Frank Codd • Sir Martin Ryle • George Stephanopoulos • Eric Bentley • Kingsley Amis • Daniel J. Boorstin • Baldwin Spencer • Sir William Berkeley • John Kennedy • Sir Victor Gollancz • Sir Harold Nicolson • Eddie Eagan • John Napier Turner • John Betjeman • Frederick William Winterbotham • Donald Hall • Dean Rusk • Michael Foot • Brian Greene • George Chapman • Richard Robson • James Smithson • Timothy Mo • Nannerl Overholser Keohane • Sydney Brenner • Lester B. Pearson • Robert Hawke • Oliver Smithies • Sir John Cornforth • Tony Hoare • D.M. Thomas • Michael Fried • J. Michael Kosterlitz • Wilfrid Sheed • Byron R. White • Sir Lennox Berkeley • Sir Baldwin Spencer • Sir Donald Francis Tovey • A. Alvarez • Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
Related People Cecil Rhodes • William Laud • Sir William Osler, Baronet • Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey • William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield • Sir Michael Ernest Sadler • John Fell • William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge • Sir Richard Winn Livingstone

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