- Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Michael Sullivan (born August 10,1963) is a libertarian conservative author and political commentator, distinguished by his often personal style of political analysis, and pioneering achievements in the field of blog journalism. Sullivan is known for his unusual personal-political identity (HIV-positive, gay, self-described conservative often at odds with other conservatives, and practising Roman Catholic). - Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years of hard labour after being convicted of the offence of "gross indecency". - Lord Alfred Douglas
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 - 20 March 1945) was a poet, a translator and a prose writer, better known as the intimate friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde. Much of his early poetry was Uranian in theme, though he tended, later in life, to distance himself from both Wilde's influence and his own role as a Uranian poet. - William Hague
William Jefferson Hague (born 26 March 1961) is a British politician, the Member of Parliament for Richmond, North Yorkshire, former leader of the Conservative Party, and current Conservative Shadow Foreign Secretary. He was the first leader of the Conservative party not to have become Prime Minister since Austen Chamberlain in the early 1920s. - Dudley Moore
Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (April 19, 1935 - March 27, 2002), was an Academy-Award nominated English actor, comedian and musician. Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in "Beyond the Fringe" in the early 1960s and became increasingly famous as half of the double-act he formed with Peter Cook. - T. E. Lawrence
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (August 16, 1888 - May 19, 1935), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British soldier renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18, but whose vivid personality and writings, along with the extraordinary breadth and variety of his activities and associations, have made him the object of fascination throughout the world as "Lawrence of Arabia". - John Redwood
John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College, and has a DPhil from All Souls, Oxford. A businessman by background, he has been a director of NM Rothschild merchant bank and chairman of a quoted industrial PLC. John was an Oxfordshire County Councillor in the 1970s. In the mid-1980s he was Chief Policy Advisor to Margaret Thatcher . - John Betjeman
Sir John Betjeman CBE (28 August, 1906 - 19 May, 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in "Who's Who" as a "poet and hack". He was born to a middle-class family in Edwardian Hampstead. Although he claimed he failed his degree at Oxford University, his early ability in writing poetry and interest in architecture supported him throughout his life. - H. Montgomery Hyde
Harford Montgomery Hyde (August 14, 1907 - August 10, 1989) was a barrister, politician (Ulster Unionist MP for North Belfast) and author from Northern Ireland and early campaigner for homosexual law reform, losing his seat as a result. - Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27 1959 in Yamhill, Oregon) is an American political scientist, author, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist specializing in East Asia. He is currently a columnist for "The New York Times" and previously served as the as The New York Times' Bureau Chief in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo. He has written a number of books on Asia, … - Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful English composer of musical theatre, and also the elder brother of Julian Lloyd Webber. Lloyd Webber has enjoyed great popular success, with several musicals that have run for more than a decade both on Broadway and in the West End. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. He has also gained a number of honours, … - Wilfred Thesiger
Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, KBE, DSO, (3 June, 1910 - August 24, 2003) was a British explorer and travel writer born in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. His father was a British diplomat. - John D. Barrow
John David Barrow FRS (born November 29, 1952, London) is an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician. He is currently Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Barrow is also a writer of popular science and an amateur playwright. Barrow obtained his first degree in Mathematics and physics from Van Mildert College at the University of Durham in 1974. - Wesley Clark
Wesley Kanne Clark (born December 23 1944) is a retired four-star general of the United States Army. Clark was valedictorian of his class at West Point, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford where he obtained a degree in PPE, and later graduated from the Command and General Staff College with a master's degree in military science. He spent 34 years in the Army and the Department of Defense, receiving many military decorations, … - Kenji Yoshino
Kenji Yoshino is a legal scholar, professor and deputy dean of intellectual life at Yale Law School. His work involves Constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, civil and human rights, as well as law and literature, and Japanese law and society. He is very active in several social and legal issues and is also an author. - Norman Davies
Norman Davies FBA (born June 8, 1939 in Bolton, Lancashire) is an English historian of Welsh descent, noted for his publications on the history of Poland, Europe and the British Isles. - Bernard Spilsbury
Sir Bernard Henry Spilsbury was a British pathologist. His cases include the Brides in the Bath Murders, the Dr Crippen case, Brighton trunk murders, the Murder on the Crumbles case, Podmore Case and the Vera Page Case. He also had a critical role in developing Operation Mincemeat. Bernard Spilsbury was born at 35 Bath Street, Leamington Hastings, Warwickshire. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and St Mary's Hospital in London. - J. Paul Getty
Jean Paul Getty (December 15, 1892 - June 6, 1976) was an American industrialist and founder of the Getty Oil Company. - John Hemming
John Alexander Melvin Hemming (born 16 March 1960) is a British politician, the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley and Group Chair of the Liberal Democrats on the city council of Birmingham, England. Hemming is an elected councillor for the South Yardley Ward. In 2005, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley. - Keith Joseph
Keith Sinjohn Joseph, Baron Joseph, CH, PC (17 January 1918-10 December 1994) was a British barrister, politician, and Conservative Cabinet Minister under three different Ministries. He is widely regarded as the "power behind the throne" in the creation of what came to be known as "Thatcherism". He was known for most of his political life as Sir Keith Joseph. - Martha Lane Fox
Martha Lane Fox (born February 10 1973), great-granddaughter maternally of Charles Henry Alexander Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey, is a British e-commerce business woman, charity trustee and board member of Channel 4. She is the daughter of the British historian and gardening correspondent Robin Lane Fox. She was educated at Oxford High School, Westminster School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where she read ancient and modern history. - Robert Conquest
Dr. George Robert Ackworth Conquest (born July 15 1917), British historian, became one of the best-known writers on the Soviet Union with the publication, in 1968, of his account of Stalin's purges of the 1930s, "The Great Terror". - William Camden
William Camden (2 May 1551 - 9 November 1623) was an English antiquarian and historian. He wrote the first topographical survey of the island of Great Britain and the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England. - Albert Hourani
Albert Habib Hourani (March 31, 1915 - January 17, 1993) was a prominent scholar of Middle Eastern history through much of the 20th century. He was born in Manchester, England, the son of immigrants from what is now South Lebanon. His family had converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Scottish Presbyterianism and his father was an elder of the local church in Manchester. Hourani himself, however, converted to Catholicism in adulthood. - John Foxe
John Foxe (1517 -April 8, 1587), martyrologist, is remembered as the author of what is popularly known as "Foxe's Book of Martyrs". - Giles Henderson
Giles Ian Henderson CBE, born 20 April 1942 in South Africa, is the present Master of Pembroke College, Oxford. Gaining his Bachelor of Arts degree at Michaelhouse, University of the Witwatersrand, Henderson became Senior Mackinnon Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained his MA and BCL). He received the Fulbright Award from University of California, Berkeley in 1966-67. Henderson joined Slaughter and May in 1968 and was admitted Solicitor in 1970. - John Wilson
John Wilson (18 May 1785 - 3 April 1854) was a Scottish writer, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine". He was born at Paisley, the son of a wealthy gauze manufacturer who died when John was eleven years old. He was the fourth child, but the eldest son, and he had nine brothers and sisters. He was only twelve when he entered the University of Glasgow, … - Noel Godfrey Chavasse
Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse VC and bar MC (November 9, 1884 - August 4 1917) was a British medic and soldier who is one of only three people to be awarded a Victoria Cross twice. He was born in Oxford and educated at Magdalen College School in Cowley Place, where a blue plaque was dedicated to him in 2005. Chavasse was the son of Francis James Chavasse, Bishop of Liverpool and founder of St. Peter's College, Oxford. - Tom Denning Baron Denning
Alfred Thompson 'Tom' Denning, Baron Denning, OM, PC (23 January 1899 - 5 March 1999) was an English veteran of the First World War, jurist, judge and barrister. A native of Hampshire, he became a Law Lord and Master of the Rolls (the senior civil judge in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales). Lord Denning was a judge for 38 years before retiring at the age of 83 in 1982. - A. C. Grayling
Anthony Clifford Grayling (born 3 April 1949) is a British philosopher and author. He is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London and a supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has a MA, a DPhil from Oxford, and is a member of the Royal Society of Arts. - Howard Walter Florey Baron Florey
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, OM, FRS, (September 24, 1898 - February 21, 1968) was a pharmacologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the extraction of penicillin. Born the youngest of five children in Adelaide, South Australia, Florey was a brilliant student (and junior sportsman, although he did not excel at maths) who was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide. - Ben Goldacre
Ben Goldacre is a British doctor and journalist, and the author of the "Guardian" newspaper's weekly "Bad Science" column. He describes himself as "a junior doctor in London and a shameless geek". - Thomas Cooper
Thomas Cooper (or Couper) (c. 1517 - April 29, 1594), English bishop, lexicographer, and writer, was born in Oxford, where he was educated at Magdalen College. He became master of Magdalen College school, and afterwards practised as a physician in Oxford. His literary career began in 1548, when he compiled, or rather edited, "Bibliotheca Eliotae", a Latin dictionary by Sir Thomas Elyot. - Robin Ward
The Reverend Canon Robin Ward is Principal of St Stephen's House, Oxford. Robin Ward was born in 1966. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford (BA 1987, MA 1991) and St Stephen's House, Oxford. He later obtained a PhD from King's College London (2003) on submission of a thesis entitled "The Schism at Antioch in the Fourth Century". He was ordained deacon in 1991 and priest in 1992. - Julius Caesar
Sir Julius Caesar (1557/58 - 18 April 1636) was an English judge and politician. He was born near Tottenham in Middlesex. His father was Giulio Cesare Adelmare, an Italian physician to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, descended by the female line from the dukes of Cesarini. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and afterwards studied at the University of Paris, where in the year 1581 he was made a doctor of civil law. - Robin Blaze
Robin Blaze is a countertenor. - Michael Denison
John Michael Terence Wellesley Denison CBE (b. Doncaster, Yorkshire November 1, 1915 - d. Amersham, Buckinghamshire July 22, 1998) was a noted English actor. Denison was raised by his aunt and uncle from the age of three weeks, following the tragic death of his mother and an estranged relationship with his father. He was educated at Harrow where he took part in school productions. It was while at Magdalen College, Oxford University, … - John Scarlett
Sir John McLeod Scarlett, KCMG, OBE (born August 18, 1948) is head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Prior to this appointment, he had chaired the Cabinet Office Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC). - Henry Tizard
Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (23 August 1885 in Gillingham, Kent – 9 October 1959 in Fareham, Hampshire) was an English chemist and inventor and past Rector of Imperial College. Tizard's ambition to join the navy was thwarted by poor eyesight and he instead studied at Westminster School and Magdalen College, Oxford where he concentrated on mathematics and chemistry, doing work on indicators and the motions of ions in gases in 1911. - Henry Hammond
Henry Hammond (August 18, 1605 - April 25, 1660), was an English churchman. He was born at Chertsey in Surrey, and was educated at Eton College and at Magdalen College, Oxford, becoming demy or scholar in 1619, and fellow in 1625. He took Holy Orders in 1629, and in 1633 in preaching before the court he won the approval of the Earl of Leicester and was presented with the living of Penshurst in Kent. In 1643 he was made archdeacon of Chichester.
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