- Emma Watson
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is an English actress who rose to fame playing the role of Hermione Granger in the "Harry Potter" film series. - Tim Henman
Timothy Henry Henman OBE (born 6 September 1974 in Oxford) is an English tennis player. He is the first player from the United Kingdom since Roger Taylor in the 1970s to reach the semi-finals of the Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship. Having reached 6 grand slam semis and been ranked number 4 in the world he is Britain's most successful open era player. Nevertheless, he has been criticised by some for not winning a Grand Slam event and for refusing to retire. - J. B. S. Haldane
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS (November 5, 1892 - December 1, 1964), who normally used "J.B.S." as a first name, was a British geneticist and evolutionary biologist. He was one of the founders (along with Ronald Fisher and Sewall Wright) of population genetics. - Humphrey Carpenter
Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter was an English biographer, author and radio broadcaster. He was born, died, and lived practically all of his life, in the city of Oxford. As a child he lived in the Warden's Lodgings at Keble College, Oxford, where his father, Harry James Carpenter, was Warden until his appointment as Bishop of Oxford. On leaving the Dragon School in Oxford, Humphrey was educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire, but returned to study English at Keble. - John Mortimer
Sir John Clifford Mortimer CBE QC (born 21 April 1923) is an English barrister turned prolific writer and dramatist. Educated at Harrow School and Brasenose College, Oxford, his oeuvre includes over fifty books, plays, and scripts. The play, "A Voyage Round My Father" (1971) is autobiographical, recounting his experiences as a young barrister and his relationship with his blind father. - Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute Norway (January 17, 1899 in London - January 12, 1960 in Melbourne) was, as Nevil Shute, one of the most popular novelists of the mid-20th century, as well as a successful aeronautical engineer. His stories and characters are humane but avoid emotional extremes (occasionally to a surprising extent, given the circumstances they describe), which helps explain why a half-century after his death, virtually all his books remain in print. - 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. - John Lloyd
John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd (born September 30 1951) is a British comedy writer and television producer. - Peter Bourne
Dr. Peter Bourne is a physician, anthropologist, biographer, author and international civil servant with experience in several senior government positions. He is currently chairman of the board of the American Association for World Health, and Professor and Vice Chancellor Emeritus at St. George's University Medical School, Grenada. Bourne was born in 1939 in Oxford, England, where he received his early education at the Dragon School. - Hugh Laurie
James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE (born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, comedian and writer known as Hugh Laurie. He is known in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and parts of Europe for his roles in "Blackadder" and for his long-running comedy collaboration with Stephen Fry, which has included "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" and "Jeeves and Wooster" (see Fry and Laurie for more detail). - 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, … - Jonathan Bowen
Jonathan Bowen is Chairman of Museophile Limited and a Visiting Professor at London South Bank University, where he has founded and headed the Centre for Applied Formal Methods since 2000. During 2006-07, he is a visiting academic at University College London. EPSRC Visiting Fellow: - Jack Davenport
Jack Davenport (born 1 March 1973) is an English film and television actor. - Antonia Fraser
Lady Antonia Fraser (Pinter), CBE (born August 27, 1932, as Antonia Margaret Caroline Pakenham) is a British author of history and novels, best known for writing biographies. She is the daughter of Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, and his wife, the late Elizabeth Harman. Like all her siblings, she became a child convert to the Catholic Church. As the daughter of an earl, Antonia Fraser's title (form of address) is "Lady Antonia"; however, … - Christopher Cazenove
Christopher Cazenove (born December 17 1945) is a British cinema, television and stage actor. Cazenove was born in Hampshire, and educated at the Dragon School, Eton College and Oxford. He often portrays British aristocrats, and first made his name in the early 1970s drama series, "The Regiment". Other notable roles include Charlie Tyrrel in the UK mini-series "The Duchess of Duke Street" and Ben Carrington in the US soap opera "Dynasty". - Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton, (born 20 December 1969 in Zurich, Switzerland) is a writer and television producer who lives in London and aims to make philosophy relevant to everyday life. - Julian Brazier
Julian William Hendy Brazier TD (born July 24, 1953) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Canterbury. He is a shadow transport minister and a prominent member of the Conservative Christian Fellowship. - Naomi Mitchison
Naomi Margaret Mitchison, CBE was a Scottish novelist and poet. She was appointed CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1981; she was also entitled to call herself Lady Mitchison, CBE since 5 October 1964 (but never apparently used that style herself). - Stephen Oppenheimer
Stephen Oppenheimer (born 1947), a British physician, a member of Green College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, performs and publishes research in the field of genetics. From 1972 Oppenheimer worked as a clinical paediatrician in Malaysia, Nepal and Papua New Guinea. From 1979 he moved into medical research and teaching, with positions at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Oxford University, a research centre in Kilifi, … - Tim Hunt
Sir Richard Timothy (Tim) Hunt, FRS, (b. February 19,1943) is a British biochemist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and Sir Paul M. Nurse for their discoveries regarding cell cycle regulation by cyclin and cyclin dependent kinases. After attending the Dragon School and Magdalen College School (both in Oxford) Hunt received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1968. - Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer (born 1957) is a British-born essayist and novelist. Iyer was born in Oxford, England, to Indian parents, who were both teachers of philosophy. When he was seven, his family moved to California, and for more than a decade he moved back and forth several times a year between schools and college in England and his parents' home in California. He won academic scholarships to Eton, Oxford University and Harvard, graduating with a Congratulatory Double First at Oxford, … - John Paul Morrison
John Paul Morrison (b. John Paul Rodker 30 July, 1937) is a British-born Canadian computer programmer, and the inventor of flow-based programming (FBP). He is the author of the book "Flow-Based Programming: A New Approach to Application Development", which Ed Yourdon has included in his list of "Cool Books". Morrison is the son of the writer, translator and editor, John Rodker and Barbara McKenzie-Smith, an artist. - Hugh Gaitskell
Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (9 April 1906 - 18 January 1963) was a British politician, leader of the Labour Party from 1955 until his death in 1963. - Christopher Reuel Tolkien
Christopher John Reuel Tolkien is the youngest son of the author J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), and is best known as the editor of much of his father's posthumously published work. He drew the original maps for his father's "The Lord of the Rings", which he signed C. J. R. T. The J. stands for John, a baptismal name that he does not ordinarily use. - Nicholas Shakespeare
Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare (born March 3, 1957 in Worcester) is a British journalist and writer. Born to a diplomat, Shakespeare grew up in the Far East and in South America. He was educated at the Dragon School preparatory school then Winchester College and Cambridge and worked as a journalist for BBC television and then on "The Times" as assistant arts and literary editor. - Jon Stallworthy
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, … - Peter Jay
Peter Jay (born 7 February 1937) is a British economist, broadcaster and diplomat. Peter Jay is the son of Douglas and Peggy Jay (born 1912), both of whom were Labour Party politicians. He was educated at The Dragon School, Oxford (somewhat ironic given his parents ardent politics, but then, it was an alma mater of Hugh Gaitskell), followed by Winchester College (where he was head boy) and Christ Church, Oxford, where graduated with a first class honours degree in PPE. - Colin Clark
Colin Grant Clark (November 2, 1905 - September 4, 1989) was a British economist and statistician who worked in both the United Kingdom and Australia, and who pioneered the use of the gross national product ("GNP") as the basis for studying national economies. Colin Clark was born in London. He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, then at Winchester College, and from 1924 at Brasenose College, Oxford where he studied chemistry. - Leefe Robinson
William Leefe Robinson (July 14 1895-December 31 1918) was the first British pilot to shoot down a German airship over Britain during the First World War. For this he was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was the first person to be awarded the VC for action in the UK. - Shaun Wylie
Shaun Wylie is a British mathematician and former World War II codebreaker. Wylie was born in Oxford, England, and educated at Dragon School and then Winchester College. He won a scholarship to New College, Oxford where he studied mathematics and classics. In 1934, he went to study topology at Princeton University, obtaining a PhD in 1937 with Solomon Lefschetz as his supervisor. At Princeton he met fellow English mathematician Alan Turing. - Rageh Omaar
Rageh Omaar (born 19 July 1967) is a British television news presenter and writer of Somali origin. His latest book "Only Half of Me" deals with the tensions between these two sides of his identity. He used to be a BBC world affairs correspondent, where he made his name reporting from Iraq. He moved to a new post at Al Jazeera English in September 2006, where he currently presents the nightly weekday documentary series "Witness". - Peter Horsley
Air Marshal Sir Beresford Peter Torrington Horsley KCB, CBE, LVO, AFC (26 March, 1921 - 20 December, 2001), usually Peter Horsley, was a senior Royal Air Force commander. Horsley was the youngest of seven children of a West Hartlepool merchant, who shot himself in 1922 after the collapse of the family business. He was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, and Wellington College. In 1939, he became a deck boy on the TSS "Cyclops", … - John Kendrew
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew (March 24, 1917 - August 23, 1997) was an English biochemist and crystallographer who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz; their group in the Cavendish Laboratory investigated the structure of heme-containing proteins. - Warren Fisher
Sir (Norman Fenwick) Warren Fisher (1879-1948), was a British civil servant. Fisher was born in Croydon, London on 22 September 1879. He was educated at the Dragon School (Oxford), Winchester College and Hertford College, Oxford University. He matriculated in 1898, graduating with a first class degree in Classical Moderations in 1900 and again with a first in Greats in 1902. After failing to get into the Indian Civil Service and the medical examination for the Royal Navy, … - Dom Joly
Dominic John Joly (born 15 November 1968) is an award-winning British television comedian and journalist. He is best known as the star of "Trigger Happy TV", a hidden camera show, and "Dom Joly's Happy Hour", where he explored the drinking habits of other cultures. - Simon Tolkien
Simon Tolkien (born 1959) is a British barrister and novelist. He is the grandson of J. R. R. Tolkien. Simon Tolkien is the eldest son of Christopher Tolkien (b. 1924). He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and then Downside School. He studied modern history at Trinity College, Oxford. Since 1994, he has been a barrister in London, where he lives with his wife and their two children. - Janet Young Baroness Young
Janet Young, Baroness Young (23 October 1926 - 6 September 2002), was a British Conservative politician. She served as the first ever female Leader of the House of Lords from 1981 to 1983, first as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and from 1982 as Lord Privy Seal. She was the only female member of Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet. She became a councillor for Oxford City Council in 1957 and was leader by 1967. Not long after she was made a peer on the advice of Edward Heath, … - Humphry Bowen
Humphry John Moule Bowen was a British botanist and chemist. Bowen was born in Oxford, son of the chemist Edmund Bowen. He attended the Dragon School, gaining a scholarship to Rugby School and then a demyship to Magdalen College, Oxford. He won the "Gibbs Prize" in 1949 and completed a DPhil in chemistry at Oxford University in 1953 before starting his professional career as a chemist. Bowen was also a proficient amateur actor in his early years, … - Ruari McLean
John David Ruari McLean CBE, DSC (June 10, 1917 – March 27, 2006) was a leading British typographic designer. - W. Andrew Robinson
W. Andrew Robinson (born 1957) is a British author and former newspaper editor. Andrew Robinson was educated at the Dragon School, Eton College where he was a King's Scholar, University College, Oxford where he read Chemistry and finally the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He is the son of Neville Robinson, an Oxford physicist. Robinson first visited India in 1975 and has been a devotee of the country's culture ever since, …
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