Sir Isaiah Berlin, OM (June 6 1909 – November 5 1997), was a political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the 20th century. Born in Riga, then part of the Russian Empire, he was the first Jew to be elected to a prize fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. From 1957 to 1967, he was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford.

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.

Henry Hardy is a British author and editor. He studied philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Wolfson College, Oxford, where he met Wolfson's then President, Isaiah Berlin. Hardy's first major publication was a collection of writings by Arnold Mallinson, an eccentric Oxford clergyman with whom he lodged for a time; he published this work under his own imprint (Robert Dugdale). He also, while still a student, composed a number of musical pieces, …

Martin David Goodman (born 1 August 1953) is a historian and writer on Roman history and the history and literature of the Jews in the Roman period. He is a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, where he is a Professor of Jewish Studies at the Oriental Institute. His published works include: * "The Ruling Class of Judaea: The Origins of the Jewish Revolt Against Rome, A.D. 66-70 ", Cambridge, …

Sophie Hannah is a prolific, award-winning English-born poet and novelist. From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 she was a junior research fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She currently resides with her family in West Yorkshire.

Myron Wyn Evans (b 1950), is a Welsh chemist, most notable for his claims to have developed a theory unifying general relativity, quantum mechanics and electromagnetism. This theory has not been accepted within the physics community. Evans earned a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. The Royal Society of Chemistry awarded him the Harrison Memorial Prize in 1978 and the Meldola Medal in 1979.

Steven Schwartz (born 1946) became the Vice Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia on February 10 2006. He was previously Vice Chancellor of Brunel University in the UK and of Murdoch University in Western Australia. Schwartz is a trained psychologist and a university corporate manager by experience. He has publicly stated that he wishes universities to be more market-oriented, research-focused, accountable, transparent and held to higher standards, …

Jon Stallworthy (born January 18, 1935 in London) is Professor of English at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow and Acting President of Wolfson College, a poet, and literary critic. Stallworthy's parents, John Arthur and Margaret Stallworthy, were from New Zealand and moved to England in 1934. Stallworthy started writing poems when he was only seven years old. He was educated at the Dragon School, Rugby School and at Magdalen College, Oxford, …

Professor Christopher Miles "Chris" Perrins, (b. 1935) LVO FRS is a British biologist. He is Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow at the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology at Oxford University, and an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He was appointed the first Warden of the Swans in 1993. This is a new office in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, …

Sir Ronald Syme OM (11 March, 1903 - 4 September, 1989), New Zealand-born historian, was an eminent classicist of the 20th century.

Luciano Floridi (Laurea, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, M.Phil. and Ph.D. University of Warwick, M.A. University of Oxford) is one of Italy's most influential thinkers in the area of philosophy of science, technology, and ethics. He is best known for his research on the sceptical tradition and for being the founder of the philosophy of information and of information ethics, two fields that he has established as independent areas of inquiry in the nineties.

Géza Vermes is a scholar and writer on religious history, particularly Jewish and Christian. He is a noted authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient works in Aramaic, and a controversial but respected authority on the life and religion of Jesus. Vermes' written work on Jesus focuses principally on Jesus the Jew, as seen in the broader context of the narrative scope of Jewish history and theology.

Kurt Mendelssohn FRS (7 January 1906-18 September 1980) was a German-born British medical physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He worked at the University of Oxford from 1933. He was Reader in Physics there, 1955-1973, Emeritus Reader, 1973; Emeritus Professorial Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, 1973 (Professorial Fellow, 1971-1973).

Professor Samson Abramsky FRS (born March 12, 1953) is a computer scientist. Since the Year 2000, he has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing at Oxford University Computing Laboratory. He has also been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 2004. His research achievements include the development of game semantics, domain theory in logical form, and categorical quantum mechanics.

William Peter Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw (October 1936 -) is a British academic and politician. A Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords, where he is currently his party's spokesperson on transport, he is also a County Councillor in Oxfordshire. The son of Leonard and Ivy Bradshaw, he was educated at Slough Grammar School and the University of Reading. He married Jill Hayward in 1957, by whom he has two children; after Jill's death in 2002, …

John Gilbert Presslie Barnes is a British computer scientist best known for his role in developing and publicising the Ada programming language. Barnes studied mathematics at Cambridge University and later worked at Imperial Chemical Industries. He was an industrial fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford in the very late 1970s or early 1980s, most likely at the suggestion of Prof. C. A. R. Hoare. He is the primary inventor of and protagonist for the Ada Rendezvous mechanism.

Robin Oliver Gandy (22 September 1919 - 20 November1995) was a British mathematician and logician. He was a friend, student, and associate of Alan Turing, having been supervised by Turing during his PhD at the University of Cambridge (graduated 1953), where they worked together. Educated at Abbotsholme, Robin took two years of the Mathematical Tripos, at King's College, Cambridge, before enlisting for military service in 1940.

Desmond Morris (born 24 January 1928 in the village of Purton, north Wiltshire, UK) is most famous for his work as a zoologist and ethologist. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, a boys' independent school in West Lavington, Wiltshire, and then at the University of Birmingham and the University of Oxford. He first came to public attention in the 1950s as a presenter of the ITV television programme "Zoo Time". His studies focus on animal and human behaviour, …

David Dabydeen (Born December 9, 1955) is a Guyanese-born critic, writer and novelist. Dabydeen was born in Berbice, Guyana, and moved to England with his parents in 1969. He read English at Cambridge University, and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts with honours. He then gained a Ph.D. in 18th century literature and art at University College London in 1982, and was awarded a research fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford.

Donald E. Broadbent (Birmingham, 1926-1993) was an influential British experimental psychologist. His career and his research work bridged the gap between the pre-Second World War approach of Sir Frederick Bartlett and its wartime development into applied psychology, and what from the late 1960s became known as cognitive psychology.

Professor Sir Gareth Roberts, FRS FREng, (16 May 1940 – 6 February 2007), was a Welsh physicist specialising in semiconductors and molecular electronics, who was influential in British science policy through his chairmanship of several academic bodies and his two reports on the future supply of scientists and how university research should be assessed. He was knighted in 1997 for his services to higher education.

Harold 'Harry' Luntz is an Australian law professor. He is widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading experts on torts law. He began publishing in academic journals in the early 1960s. Some of his appointments: * 1970 - Visiting Associate Professor at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. * 1971 - Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. * 1976 - Professor, University of Melbourne. * 1986-88, Dean of the Law Faculty, University of Melbourne.

Ruth Barcan Marcus (born 1921 in Bronx, New York) is the philosopher and logician after whom the Barcan formula is named. She is a pioneering figure in the quantification of modal logic and the theory of direct reference.

Peter Roger Stuart Moorey, MA, D.Phil., FBA, FSA (30 May 1937 – 23 December 2004) was a British archaeologist and historian of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East, and former Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford. Moorey also served as Vicegerent of the University's Wolfson College. Roger Moorey was educated at Mill Hill School, and read Modern History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Oxford.

Amit Chaudhuri (born 1962) is an internationally recognised Indian English author.

Sir Arthur Lionel Pugh Norrington, was a publisher, President of Trinity College, Oxford, vice-chancellor of Oxford University and originator of the Norrington Table. Norrington was born on October 27, 1899 at Normandy Villa, Godstone Road, Kenley, Surrey. The only son and eldest child of Arthur James Norrington, a merchant in the City of London, and his wife, Gertrude Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of William Pugh, a merchant from Montgomeryshire.

Stan Woodell was a British botanist. Stanley Reginald John Woodell obtained a PhD from the University of Durham. He was a University Lecturer in Botany at Oxford University (1959–88). At Wolfson College, Oxford, he was successively a Governing Body Fellow (1967–88), Supernumerary Fellow (1988–89) and Emeritus Fellow (1989–2004). From 1984 to 2004 he was also the "Fellow Librarian" of the College.

Martin Nowak is Director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamic at Harvard University

Professor Douglas G. Altman is a British statistician. He is the Founder and Director of Centre for Statistics in Medicine and Cancer Research UK Medical Statistics Group. His varied research interests include the use and abuse of statistics in medical research, studies of prognosis, regression modelling, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, randomised trials, reporting guidelines and studies of medical measurement.

Margaret Gilbert is a philosopher best known for her 1989 book "On Social Facts". She was born in the United Kingdom and obtained a B. A. degree in Classics and Philosophy from Cambridge University and a B. Phil. and D. Phil. degree in Philosophy from Oxford University. From 1983 until 2006, she taught at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, where she was Professor of Philosophy.

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.