- James Martin
Dr. James Martin is a consultant and author, has been called the "guru of the information age," and was nominated for a Pulitzer prize for his book, "The Wired Society: A Challenge for Tomorrow". A former Student of Keble College, Oxford, he has written over a hundred books many of which were best sellers in the information technology industry.
- Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme into the lexicon, helping found memetics.
- C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis, commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar. Lewis is known for his work on medieval literature, Christian apologetics, literary criticism and fiction. He is best known today for his series "The Chronicles of Narnia". Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of "The Lord of the Rings".
- Brian D. Ripley
Brian D. Ripley is a distinguished statistician, professor of Applied Statistics at the University of Oxford and a Professorial fellow at St Peter's College. Ripley has made important contributions to the fields of spatial statistics, pattern recognition, and has been influential in the development of the S and its implementations in S-PLUS and R. Ripley has coauthored 2 books based on S, "Modern Applied Statistics with S" and "S Programming".
- Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (November 19, 1917 - October 31, 1984) was an Indian politician who served as Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 to 1984. Born in the politically influential Nehru dynasty, she grew up in an intensely political atmosphere. Her grandfather Motilal Nehru and father Jawaharlal Nehru were prominent Indian nationalist leaders. While studying at Somerville College, University of Oxford, …
- Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. He is renowned for his work in mathematical physics, in particular his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He is also a recreational mathematician and philosopher.
- John Hood
Dr John Hood has been the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford since 5 October 2004. He is the first Vice-Chancellor to be elected from outside Oxford's academic body, and the first to have addressed the scholars' congregation via a webcast.
- Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27 1832 - January 14 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. His most famous writings are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and its sequel "Through the Looking-Glass" as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.
- John Smith
John Smith was an English mathematician: He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1766 to 1797.
- William Morris
William Morris was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the British arts and crafts movement, best known as a designer of wallpaper and patterned fabrics, a writer of poetry and fiction and a pioneer of the socialist movement in Britain. His family was wealthy, and he went to school at Marlborough College, but left in 1851 after a student rebellion there.
- Denys Wilkinson
Sir Denys Haigh Wilkinson FRS (born 5 September 1922) is a British nuclear physicist. He was educated at at Loughborough Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956 and he won its Hughes Medal in 1965 and a Royal Medal in 1980. In 2001 the Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the University of Oxford was renamed in his honour.
- William Smith
The Rev. Dr. William Smith (1728-1803) was the first president of the University of Pennsylvania. He was born at Aberdeen, Scotland, to Thomas and Elizabeth (Duncan) Smith. He attended the University of Aberdeen. In 1753, Smith wrote a pamphlet outlining his thoughts about education.
- Colin Blakemore
He studied Medical Sciences at Cambridge and completed a PhD at the University of California in Berkeley. After 11 years in the Department of Physiology at Cambridge, he became Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford in 1979 and was Director of the MRC IRC for Cognitive Neuroscience for 8 years. His research is concerned with vision and the early development of the brain.
- Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi is a computer software executive who, as head of Microsoft's application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsoft's flagship office applications. He now heads his own company, "Intentional Software", with the aim of developing and marketing his concept of Intentional programming. In 2007, he became the fifth space tourist and the second Hungarian in space. His estimated net worth is $1 billion.
- David Thomas
David Thomas is a Welsh politician and member of Plaid Cymru. David Thomas is the Plaid canditate for Montgomeryshire constituency in the National Assembly for Wales election, 2007 David was born and raised in Haverfordwest and lives near Llanwddyn, having moved there in 1986. He was educated in the primary and secondary schools in Haverfordwest, at the Universities of Oxford (Keble College) and Wales (Cardiff and Aberystwyth) and the South Wales Theological College.
- David Thomas
David S. G. Thomas is a scientist and geographer. He was born in Dover, Kent, UK in 1958. He is Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. His research deals with desertification, dryland environments, climate change and other environmental phenomena. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford. Between 1984 and 1998 he taught at the University of Sheffield.
- Luciano Floridi
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.
- Isaiah Berlin
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.
- Julian Savulescu
Julian Savulescu is Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. He is Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He is also Head of the Melbourne-Oxford Stem Cell Collaboration, which is devoted to examining the ethical implications of cloning and embryonic stem cell research. In addition, he is editor of the prestigious "Journal of Medical Ethics", …
- Jonathan Zittrain
Jonathan Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain is a co-founder of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and from 1997 to 2000 served as its first executive director. He further holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is a principal of the Oxford Internet Institute. Zittrain is the Jack N. & Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.
- Peter Singer
Peter Albert David Singer (born July 6, 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a Jewish-Australian philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne. He specializes in practical ethics, approaching ethical issues from a preference utilitarian perspective. In addition, he holds an atheistic view of the world.
- Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on the anthropic principle. He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics (2000). In addition to his writing for academic and popular press, Bostrom makes frequent media appearances in which he talks about transhumanism-related topics such as cloning, artificial intelligence, mind uploading, cryonics, nanotechnology, and the simulation argument.
- Peter Donnelly
Peter Donnelly, FRS is an Australian mathematician and Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford. He is a specialist in applied probability and has made important mathematical contributions to coalescent theory. His research group at Oxford has an international reputation for the development of statistial methodology to analyse genetic data. He is a fellow of St Anne's College and, …
- David Lewis
David Lewis (born Losz), CC, MA (June 23, or October 1909 -May 23, 1981) was a Russian-born Canadian labour lawyer and social democratic politician. He was national secretary of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1936 to 1950, and was one of the key architects of the New Democratic Party (NDP) in 1961. He was the NDP's national leader from 1971 to 1975. His politics were heavily influenced by the Jewish Labour Bund and because of that, …
- David Miller
David Miller (born 8 March 1946) is a prominent British political theorist. He received his BA from the University of Cambridge and his BPhil and DPhil from the University of Oxford. He is currently Official Fellow and Professor in Social and Political Theory at Nuffield College. Previous works include "Social Justice", "On Nationality" and "Citizenship and National Identity". Miller is known for his support of a modest form of nationalism.
- 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.
- Chris Patten
Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC (born 12 May 1944 in Bath, Somerset) is a prominent British Conservative politician and a Patron of the Tory Reform Group. He was a Member of Parliament, eventually rising to a cabinet minister and party chairman. In the latter capacity, he orchestrated the Conservatives' unexpected fourth consecutive electoral victory in 1992, but lost his own seat in the House of Commons.
- Marcus du Sautoy
Marcus du Sautoy (born 1965) is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. Formerly of All Souls College, he is now a fellow of Wadham College. He has been named by "The Independent on Sunday" as one of the UK's leading scientists. In 2001 he won the prestigious Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society, which is awarded every two years to reward the best mathematical research by a mathematician under forty.
- Daniel Dennett
Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Dennett is currently the Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University.
- David Deutsch
David Deutsch (born 1953 in Haifa, Israel) is a physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory. He pioneered the field of quantum computers, and is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
- Kay Davies
Kay Davies MA DPhil FRS is a British human geneticist. She is Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy in the University of Oxford. She is a fellow of Hertford College and, with Frances Ashcroft and Peter Donnelly is a director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function. Her research group has an international reputation for work on Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
- Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash is a renowned historian, columnist, essayist and author. He is currently director of the European Studies Centre and a Gerd Bucerius Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary History at St. Antony's College, Oxford. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University , a fellow of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Arts and a governor of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy.
- Myles Allen
Dr Myles R Allen is head of the Climate Dynamics group at University of Oxford's Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department. He is the Principal Investigator of Climateprediction.net and is principally responsible for starting this project. He has worked at the Energy Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson (born Paul Bede Johnson on 2 November 1928 in Manchester, England) is a British Roman Catholic journalist, historian, speechwriter and author. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, and Magdalen College, Oxford. Johnson first came to prominence in the 1950s as a journalist writing for, and later editing, the "New Statesman" magazine. A prolific writer, he has written over 40 books and contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers.
- George Smith
George Smith (19 June 1815 - 14 December 1871) was a missionary in China and the Anglican bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong) from 1849 to 1865, the first of this newly established diocese. Smith was born in Wellington, Somerset on 19 June 1815. He obtained a BA in classics from Oxford in 1837 (and an MA in 1843 and DD in 1849) and was ordained as a deacon in 1839 and a priest in 1840.
- John Davis
John Horsley Russell Davis (1938-) is a British anthropologist, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Oxford. John Davis was born in London on 9 September 1938. He was educated at University College, Oxford (BA Modern History 1961, MA) and the London School of Economics (PhD Social Anthropology 1968). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1988.
- John Bampton
John Bampton (1690 - June 2, 1751) was an English churchman, for some time canon of Salisbury. Bampton was a member of Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated M.A. in 1712. He is now remembered chiefly because of the contents of his will, which directs that eight lectures shall be delivered annually at Oxford in the University Church on as many Sunday mornings in full term, …
- Paul Nurse
Sir Paul M. Nurse, FRS, (b. January 25, 1949) is a British biochemist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and R. Timothy Hunt for their discoveries regarding cell cycle regulation by cyclin and cyclin dependent kinases. Nurse's parents came from Norfolk. He was born and raised in Wembley, in north-west London, and was educated at Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
- Bryan Sykes
Bryan Sykes is Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He published the first report on retrieving DNA from ancient bone ("Nature", 1989), and has been involved in high-profile cases dealing with ancient DNA, such as those of Ötzi the Iceman and Cheddar Man, as well as those by people claiming to be members of the Romanovs-the Russian royal family.
- John Mason
Sir John Mason was an English diplomat and spy. Mason was born in Abingdon in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). He was educated at the school at the abbey in his native town, where his uncle was abbot. Later, he went to All Souls College, Oxford and was ordained a priest. He became Chancellor of Oxford University for the periods 1552-1556 and 1559-1564. He worked for several Tudor monarchs collecting information from the Continent and as a diplomat.