- T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965), was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. He wrote the poems "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "The Waste Land", "The Hollow Men", "Ash Wednesday", and "Four Quartets"; the plays "Murder in the Cathedral" and "The Cocktail Party"; and the essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent". - William Of Ockham
William of Ockham (also Occam or any of several other spellings,) (c. 1288 - c. 1348) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher, from Ockham, a small village in Surrey, near East Horsley. He is considered, along with Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, one of the major figures of medieval thought and found himself at the center of the major intellectual and political controversies of the fourteenth century. - Alister McGrath
Alister E. McGrath (b. January 23, 1953) is a Christian theologian, with a background in molecular biophysics, noted for his work on historical, systematic and scientific theology In his writing and public speaking, he promotes "scientific theology" and opposes atheism. McGrath was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and is currently Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Oxford. He was until 2005 Principal of Wycliffe Hall. - Ian Kershaw
Professor Sir Ian Kershaw (born April 29 1943 in Oldham, Lancashire, England) is a British historian, noted for his biographies of Adolf Hitler. Educated at St Bede's College, Manchester, Liverpool and Oxford Universities, he was originally trained as a medievalist but turned to the study of German history in the 1970s. - Richard Steele
Sir Richard Steele (bap. March 12, 1672 - September 1, 1729) was an Irish writer and politician, remembered, along with his friend, Joseph Addison, as co-founder of "The Spectator" magazine. Steele was born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at Charterhouse School, where he first met Addison. He went on to Merton College, Oxford, then with joined the Life Guards of the Household Cavalry. He disliked British Army life, and his first published work, … - C. A. R. Hoare
Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (Tony Hoare or C.A.R. Hoare, born January 11, 1934) is a British computer scientist, probably best known for the development of Quicksort (or Hoaresort), the world's most widely used sorting algorithm, in 1960. - Andrew Wiles
Andrew Wiles , Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics, has been named one of 23 winners of 1997 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. Wiles's fellowship provides $275,000 over five years. A member of the faculty since 1982, Wiles created an international sensation in 1994 when he published a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, solving a mathematical puzzle that had stumped experts for 350 years. - Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson (born July 31 1957) is Director-General of the BBC, a post he has held since 2006, and a former chief executive of Channel 4. Born in London and brought up in Hertfordshire, he went to Stonyhurst College in Lancashire and Merton College, Oxford, where he took a first in English. He now lives in Oxford with his American wife Jane, and has three children. - Peter Tapsell
Sir Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell (born 1 February 1930, Hove) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Conservative Member of Parliament for Louth and Horncastle. Tapsell was educated at Tonbridge School and Merton College, Oxford, during which time he was also Librarian of the Oxford Union (a senior office). Tapsell contested the Wednesbury by-election in 1957, losing to the Labour victor John Stonehouse. He first entered Parliament in the 1959 general election, … - Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price (born February_1, 1933, as Edward Reynolds Price) is a American novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price has had a lifelong interest in ancient languages and Biblical scholarship. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Price was born in Macon, North Carolina and, after attending public schools of his native state, … - Nikolaas Tinbergen
Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen (April 15, 1907 - December 21, 1988) was a Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns in animals. - Alec Jeffreys
Sir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS (born 9 January 1950 at Oxford in Oxfordshire) is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling. After graduating from the University of Oxford, he moved to the University of Leicester in 1977, where he developed genetic fingerprinting. DNA fingerprinting uses variations in the genetic code to identify individuals. The technique has been applied in forensics for law enforcement, … - Adam Hart-Davis
Dr. Adam John Hart-Davis (born 4 July 1943) is an English scientist,author, photographer, historian and broadcaster, well-known in the UK for presenting the BBC television series "Local Heroes" and "What the Romans Did for Us", the latter spawning several spin-off series involving the Victorians, the Tudors, and the Stuarts. The most recent version of this series is called "What the Ancients Did for Us". - Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (August 24, 1872 - May 20, 1956) was an English parodist and caricaturist. He was born in London, England, the younger half-brother of actor and producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford. It was during this time that he became part of the Oscar Wilde set, although George Bernard Shaw declared that Beerbohm was incomparable to anyone else. It was at school that he began writing. - Michael A. Jackson
Professor Michael Anthony Jackson (born 1936) works as an independent computing consultant in London, England, and also as a part-time researcher at AT&T Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA. He is a visiting research professor at the Open University in the UK. Jackson was educated at Harrow School where he was taught by Christopher Strachey and wrote his first program under Strachey's guidance. He then studied classics at Oxford University (known as "Greats"), … - Thomas Bradwardine
Thomas Bradwardine (c. 1290 - August 26, 1349), often called "the Profound Doctor", was an English scholar and courtier and, very briefly, Archbishop of Canterbury. He was born either at Hartfield in Sussex or at Chichester, where his family were settled, members of the smaller gentry or burghers. He was a precocious student, educated at Balliol College, Oxford where he was a fellow by 1321; he took the degree of doctor of divinity, … - Lord Randolph Churchill
Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill was a British statesman. Lord Randolph was the third son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough and Frances (1822–1899), daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry and his wife Frances Anne Vane. He was the father of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Sir Winston Churchill. - Howard Stringer
Sir Howard Stringer (born 1942) is a British businessman and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sony Corporation. Previously he was chief executive of Sony Corporation of America before being promoted to the highest post. Born in Cardiff, Wales, and educated at Oundle School and Merton College, Oxford University where he was awarded a BA in modern history and an MA, Stringer moved to the USA in 1965 to work for CBS. - Hugh Greene
Sir Hugh Carleton Greene KCMG, OBE (15 November 1910 - 19 February 1987) was an British journalist and television executive. He was the director-general of the BBC from 1960 to 1969, and is generally credited with modernising an organisation that had fallen behind in the wake of the launch of ITV in 1955. - Arthur Mutambara
Arthur Guseni Oliver Mutambara (born May 25, 1966) has served as the President of a breakaway faction of the Movement for Democratic Change since February 2006. He has worked as the Managing Director and CEO of Africa Technology and Business Institute since September 2003. - John de Stratford
John de Stratford (d. 1348), Archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Stratford-on-Avon and educated at Merton College, Oxford, afterwards entering the service of Edward II. He served as archdeacon of Lincoln, canon of York and dean of the court of arches before 1323, when he became bishop of Winchester, an appointment which was made during his visit to Pope John XXII at Avignon and which was very much disliked by Edward II. - John Kemp
John Kemp (c. 1380 - March 22 1454) was an English cardinal, archbishop of Canterbury, and chancellor - Frederick Soddy
Frederick Soddy (2 September 1877 - 22 September 1956) was an English radiochemist. Soddy was born in Eastbourne, England. He went to school at Eastbourne College, before going on to study at University College of Wales at Aberystwyth and at Merton College, University of Oxford. He was a researcher at Oxford from 1898 to 1900. He married Winifred Beilby in 1908. In 1900 he became a demonstrator in chemistry at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, … - Kris Kristofferson
Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an influential American country music songwriter, singer and actor. He is best known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night". Kristofferson is the sole author of most of his songs, but he has collaborated with various other figures of the Nashville scene such as Shel Silverstein and Fred Foster. - Oliver Ford Davies
Oliver Robert Ford Davies (born August 12 1939) is a British actor and writer. From the King's School, Canterbury, he won a scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, where he read History and became President of the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS). He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award in 1990 (1989 season) for Best Actor in a New Play for "Racing Demon". - John Hill
John Edward Bernard Hill (born 13 November 1912) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for South Norfolk from 1955 to 1974, and from 1973-74 as one of the UK's first MEPs. Hill was educated at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford, where he gained a football Blue. He was a barrister, called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1938, and a farmer. In World War II, he served with the 64th Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, … - Henry Mayr-Harting
Professor Henry Maria Robert Egmont Mayr-Harting was Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford and Lay Canon of Christ Church, Oxford from 1997 until 2003. On 6 April 1936 Henry Maria Robert Egmont Mayr-Harting was born in Prague to a Viennese couple, Herbert Mayr-Harting and Anna Mayr-Harting, "née" Münzer. Mayr-Harting was educated at Douai School and Merton College, Oxford (BA 1957, MA 1961, DPhil 1961). - Dominic Joyce
Dominic Joyce is a British mathematician, currently a professor at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Lincoln College since 1995. His undergraduate and doctoral studies were at Merton College. He undertook a DPhil in geometry under the supervision of Prof. Simon Donaldson, completed in 1992. After this he held short-term research posts at Christ Church, Oxford, as well as Princeton and UC Berkeley in the USA. - William Sewell
William Sewell (January 23, 1804 - November 14, 1874), English divine and author, was born at Newport, Isle of Wight, the son of a solicitor. He was educated at Winchester and Merton College, Oxford, was elected a fellow of Exeter College in 1827, and from 1831-1853 was a tutor there. From 1836-1841 he was Whyte's Professor of Moral Philosophy. Sewell, who took holy orders in 1830, was a friend of Pusey, Newman and Keble in the earlier days of the Tractarian movement, … - Naruhito, Crown Prince Of Japan
Crown Prince Naruhito (born February 23 1960 at Togu Palace, Tokyo) is the eldest son of HIM Emperor Akihito and HIM Empress Michiko. Titled Prince Hiro (浩宮 "Hiro-no-miya") as a child, he became heir apparent to the Japanese throne upon the death of his grandfather, the Showa Emperor (Hirohito), on January 7 1989. The Crown Prince is well known for his extensive charity work. He also carries out a full schedule of royal duties. - Leonard Cheshire
Group Captain Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire, VC, OM, DSO and Two Bars, DFC (7 September 1917 – 31 July 1992) was a British RAF pilot during the Second World War who received the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. After the war he became a charity worker, … - Anthony James Leggett
Sir Anthony James Leggett, KBE, FRS, (born March 26, 1938 in Camberwell, London, England), is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is widely recognized as a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics, and his pioneering work on superfluidity was recognized by the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics. - Rick Trainor
Richard Hughes "Rick" Trainor FKC is Professor of Social History and the current Principal of King's College London. Trainor holds degrees from Brown University (BA), Princeton University (MA) and the University of Oxford (DPhil). He is a member of the Academy of the Social Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the Athenaeum Club. He is also an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and Trinity College of Music. - John Jewel
John Jewel (sometimes spelled Jewell) (May 24, 1522 - September 23, 1571), was an English bishop of Salisbury. - Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon (born 1962 in Northampton) is a novelist and poet, who was educated at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied English. In 2003, Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize Overall Best First Book for his novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time", a book which is written from the perspective of a boy with Savant syndrome. - Jeremy Isaacs
Sir Jeremy Isaacs (born 28 September 1932) is a British television producer and executive, winner of many BAFTA awards and international Emmy Awards. He was also General Director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (1987-96). Born in Glasgow and educated at Merton College, Oxford, Isaacs began a long career in television in 1958 by joining Granada Television as a producer. - Edward Lucie-Smith
John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith (born 27 February 1933) is a British writer, poet, art critic, curator and author of exhibition catalogues. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica, moving to the United Kingdom in 1946. He studied at The King's School, Canterbury, and after a little time in Paris at Merton College, Oxford. After serving in the Royal Air Force and working as a copywriter, he became a full-time writer. He succeeded Philip Hobsbaum in organising "The Group", … - Lennox Berkeley
Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley (May 12, 1903 - December 26, 1989) was an English composer. - Edmund Clerihew Bentley
E. C. Bentley (July 10, 1875 - March 30, 1956), was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early twentieth century, and the inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics. Born in London, and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford, Bentley worked as a journalist on several newspapers, including the "Daily Telegraph". His first published collection of poetry, titled "Biography for Beginners" (1905), … - John Earle
John Earle (c. 1601 - November 17, 1665) was an English bishop. He was born at York, but the exact date is unknown. He matriculated at Christ Church College, Oxford, but moved to Merton, where he obtained a fellowship. In 1631 he was proctor and also chaplain to Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, then chancellor of the university, which gave him the rectory of Bishopston in Wiltshire.
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