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people, including alumni, Fellows, Deans and Wardens of the College. An alphabetical list of alumni of Wadham college can be found

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Alumni

Academics

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* Martin Aitken, archaeometrist *

Amir Attaran Amir Attaran ( fa, امیر عطاران) is an American and Canadian professor in both the Faculty of Law and the School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Early life and education Attaran was bor ...

, epidemiologist *

Charles Badham Reverend Charles Badham (18 July 1813 – 27 February 1884) was an English classical philologist, textual critic, headmaster, and university professor, active in England and even more so in Australia. Early life Badham was born at Ludlow, Shro ...

, classics scholar *

Owen Barfield Arthur Owen Barfield (9 November 1898 – 14 December 1997) was a British philosopher, author, poet, critic, and member of the Inklings. Life Barfield was born in London, to Elizabeth (née Shoults; 1860–1940) and Arthur Edward Barfield (1864 ...

, philosopher, author, poet, and critic *

William Bayliss Sir William Maddock Bayliss (2 May 1860 – 27 August 1924) was an English physiologist. Life He was born in Wednesbury, Staffordshire but shortly thereafter his father, a successful merchant of ornamental ironwork, moved his family to ...

, physiologist *

Edward Spencer Beesly Edward Spencer Beesly (; 23 January 1831 – 7 March 1915) was an English positivist, trades union activist, and historian. Life He was born on 23 January 1831 in Feckenham, Worcestershire, the eldest son of the Rev. James Beesly and his wife ...

, historian and positivist * Henry de Beltgens Gibbins, economic historian *

Richard Bentley Richard Bentley FRS (; 27 January 1662 – 14 July 1742) was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. Considered the "founder of historical philology", Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English school of Hellen ...

, scholar and critic *

James Theodore Bent James Theodore Bent (30 March 1852 – 5 May 1897) was an English explorer, archaeologist, and author. Biography James Theodore Bent was born in Liverpool on 30 March 1852, the son of James (1807-1876) and Eleanor (née Lambert, c.1811-1873) B ...

, explorer and archaeologist *

Bernard Bergonzi Bernard Bergonzi FRSL (13 April 1929 – 20 September 2016) was a British literary scholar, critic, and poet. He was Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Warwick and an expert on T. S. Eliot. He was born in London and studied at ...

, literary scholar * George Fielding Blandford, psychiatrist * Nathan Bodington, first Vice-Chancellor of the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , t ...

Dietrich von Bothmer Dietrich Felix von Bothmer (pronounced ''BOAT-mare''; October 26, 1918 – October 12, 2009) was a German-born American art historian, who spent six decades as a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he developed into the world's leadi ...

, art historian *

Harvie Branscomb Bennett Harvie Branscomb (December 25, 1894 – July 23, 1998) was an American theologian and academic administrator. He served as the fourth chancellor of Vanderbilt University, a private university in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1946 to 1963. ...

, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University * William Brown, Master of

Darwin College, Cambridge Darwin College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded on 28 July 1964, Darwin was Cambridge University's first graduate-only college, and also the first to admit both men and women. The college is named after one of the ...

Alan Bullock Alan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock, (13 December 1914 – 2 February 2004) was a British historian. He is best known for his book '' Hitler: A Study in Tyranny'' (1952), the first comprehensive biography of Adolf Hitler, which influence ...

, historian of Nazi Germany * Colin Campbell, geologist * Allan Chapman, historian of science *

Oliver Carmichael Oliver Carmichael (October 3, 1891 – September 25, 1966) served as the third chancellor of Vanderbilt University from 1937 to 1946. He also served as the President of the University of Alabama from 1953 to 1957. Early life Oliver Cromwell Carm ...

, 3rd Chancellor of Vanderbilt University and 20th President of the University of Alabama *

Anthony Cheetham Sir Anthony Kevin Cheetham (born 16 November 1946) is a British materials scientist. From 2012 to 2017 he was Vice-President and Treasurer of the Royal Society. Education Cheetham was educated at Stockport Grammar School and read chemistry at ...

, materials scientist *

Robert Caesar Childers Robert Caesar Childers (12 February 1838 – 25 July 1876) was a British Orientalist scholar, compiler of the first Pāli-English dictionary. Childers was the husband of Anna Barton of Ireland. He was the father of Irish nationalist Erskine C ...

, Pali language scholar * Tom Clayton, literary scholar * Pamela Clemit, literary critic *

Richard Congreve Richard Congreve (4 September 1818 – 5 July 1899) was the first English philosopher to openly espouse the Religion of Humanity, the godless form of religious humanism that was introduced by Auguste Comte, as a distinct form of positivism. Cong ...

, philosopher and positivist *

Steven Connor Steven Kevin Connor, FBA (born 11 February 1955) is a British literary scholar. Since 2012, he has been the Grace 2 Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He was formerly the academic directo ...

, literary scholar * Athelstan John Cornish-Bowden, biochemist *

Sedley Cudmore Sedley Anthony Cudmore (November 27, 1878 to October 17, 1945) was a Canadian economist, academic, civil servant and Canada's second Dominion Statistician. Early years Cudmore was born in County Cork, Ireland. At age 9 he and his family immigrat ...

, economist and

Chief Statistician of Canada The chief statistician of Canada (french: statisticien en chef du Canada) is the senior public servant responsible for Statistics Canada (StatCan), an agency of the Government of Canada. The office is equivalent to that of a deputy minister and as ...

* Peter Day, inorganic chemist *

Emma Dench Emma Dench (born 1963) is an English ancient historian, classicist, and academic administrator. She has been McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University since 2014, and Dean of its Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sci ...

, classicist * Frederick Augustus Dixey, entomologist * Barrie Dobson, historian * Nakdimon S. Doniach, lexicographer and linguist *

Edward Gordon Duff Edward Gordon Duff (16 February 1863 – 28 September 1924), known as Gordon Duff, was a British bibliographer and librarian known for his works on early English printing. Career Duff was born in Liverpool on 16 February 1863. He was educated a ...

, bibliographer and librarian *

William Rickatson Dykes William Rickatson Dykes (4 November 1877 – 1 December 1925) was an English amateur botanist who became an expert in the field of iris breeding and wrote several influential books on the subject. He was also interested in tulips, amaryllis, and ...

, botanist *

Marcus du Sautoy Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy (; born 26 August 1965) is a British mathematician, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, Fellow of New College, Oxford and author of popular mathematics and pop ...

, mathematician * Peter Edwards, historian * Henry Emeleus, petrologist * John Eveleigh, Provost of

Oriel College, Oxford Oriel College () is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Located in Oriel Square, the college has the distinction of being the oldest royal foundation in Oxford (a title formerly claimed by University College, w ...

* George Stanley Farnell, classist *

Roderick Floud Sir Roderick Castle Floud FBA (born 1 April 1942) is a British economic historian and a leader in the field of anthropometric history. He has been provost of the London Guildhall University, vice-chancellor and president of the London Metropoli ...

, economic historian * E.B. Ford, ecological geneticist * Sandra Fredman, Professor of Law * David B. Frohnmayer, President of the

University of Oregon The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, the institution is well known for its strong ties to the sports apparel and marketing firm Nike, Inc, and its co-founder, billion ...

and politician * Philip A. Gale, chemist * Ian Grant, physicist * Harry George Grey, theologian and Principal of

Wycliffe Hall, Oxford Wycliffe Hall is a Church of England theological college and a permanent private hall of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is named after the Bible translator and reformer John Wycliffe, who was master of Balliol College, Ox ...

Thomas Guidott Thomas Guidotti (September, 1638–1706), an English "doctor of physick" and writer, became one of the 17th century's most prolific physical scientists. He used the analytical techniques of his time to detail and document the properties of the h ...

, physician *

Jeffrey Hackney Jeffrey Hackney (born 5 January 1941) is a legal academic specialising in property law, law of trusts, and legal history at the University of Oxford. He attended Wadham College, University of Oxford. He retired in 2009 from his position as a Fel ...

, legal scholar *

Edith Hall Edith Hall, (born 1959) is a British scholar of classics, specialising in ancient Greek literature and cultural history, and professor in the Department of Classics and Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College, London. She is a Fellow of ...

, classics scholar *

Avraham Harman Avraham Harman (, November 7, 1914 – February 23, 1992) was an Israeli diplomat and academic administrator. From 1968 to 1983, he was the president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Biography Leslie Avraham Harman was born in London in the ...

, diplomat and President of the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public university, public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein ...

* James Harris, legal scholar, Professor of the London School of Economics and Fellow of the British Academy * James Harris, grammarian *

Robert Hooke Robert Hooke FRS (; 18 July 16353 March 1703) was an English polymath active as a scientist, natural philosopher and architect, who is credited to be one of two scientists to discover microorganisms in 1665 using a compound microscope that h ...

, architect, natural philosopher, scientist, polymath, co-founder of the Royal Society * Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, architect * Ian Grant, physicist *

Ivor Grattan-Guinness Ivor Owen Grattan-Guinness (23 June 1941 – 12 December 2014) was a historian of mathematics and logic. Life Grattan-Guinness was born in Bakewell, England; his father was a mathematics teacher and educational administrator. He gained his ba ...

, historian of mathematics * Jennifer Ingleheart, classicist *

Gilbert Ironside the younger Gilbert Ironside the younger (1632 – 27 August 1701) was an English churchman and academic, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1667, Bishop of Bristol and Bishop of Hereford. Life He was the third son of Gilbert Ironside the elder, bo ...

Bishop of Hereford The Bishop of Hereford is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Hereford in the Province of Canterbury. The episcopal see is centred in the City of Hereford where the bishop's seat (''cathedra'') is in the Cathedral Church of Sain ...

and Warden of Wadham * James Jago, physician * Frank Jevons, Vice-Chancellor of Durham University * Benjamin Kennicott, Hebrew scholar * Richard S. Lambert, biographer and broadcaster * John Leslie, philosopher * David MacDonald, biologist and conservationist * Ruth Mace, evolutionary anthropologist * Sally Mapstone,

Principal of the University of St Andrews The Principal of the University of St Andrews is the chief executive and chief academic of the University. The Principal is responsible for the overall running of the university, presiding over the main academic body of the university, known as the ...

* P. J. Marshall, historian of the British empire in the 18th century *

John Mayow John Mayow FRS (1641–1679) was a chemist, physician, and physiologist who is remembered today for conducting early research into respiration and the nature of air. Mayow worked in a field that is sometimes called pneumatic chemistry. Lif ...

, chemist, physician, and physiologist *

Alister McGrath Alister Edgar McGrath (; born 1953) is a Northern Irish theologian, Anglican priest, intellectual historian, scientist, Christian apologist, and public intellectual. He currently holds the Andreas Idreos Professorship in Science and Religion i ...

, Christian apologist and theologian *

Frank McLynn Francis James McLynn FRHistS FRGS (born 29 August 1941), known as Frank McLynn, is a British author, biographer, historian and journalist. He is noted for critically acclaimed biographies of Napoleon Bonaparte, Robert Louis Stevenson, Carl Jung, ...

, historian and biographer *

Nevil Story Maskelyne Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story Maskelyne (3 September 1823 – 20 May 1911) was an English geologist and politician. Scientific career Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, Maskelyne taught mineralogy and chemistry at Oxford from 1851, before becomin ...

, geologist and politician * Leslie Mitchell, historian * Charles Morton, educator * Peter Nailor, civil servant, intellectual and professor *

William Neile William Neile (7 December 1637 – 24 August 1670) was an English mathematician and founder member of the Royal Society. His major mathematical work, the rectification of the semicubical parabola, was carried out when he was aged nineteen, and w ...

, mathematician *

Farhan Nizami Farhan Nizami CBE, is a historian of South Asia. Early life and education Nizami is the youngest of five children of the late K. A. Nizami and late Razia Nizami. Nizami completed his B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. in history at Aligarh Muslim Univer ...

, scholar in Islamic studies * Tony Orchard, inorganic chemist * John Parsons, Master of Balliol College, Oxford and Bishop of Peterborough * William Plenderleath, antiquarian * Josephine Crawley Quinn, ancient historian and archaeologist * P. J. Rhodes, ancient historian *

Stuart J. Russell Stuart Jonathan Russell (born 1962) is a British computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence (AI). He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and was from 2008 to 2011 an adjunct ...

, computer scientist * Phillipp Schofield, historian * Henry Albert Schultens, linguist * Walter Shirley, priest and historian * Tom Solomon, neurologist *

Thomas Sprat Thomas Sprat, FRS (163520 May 1713) was an English churchman and writer, Bishop of Rochester from 1684. Life Sprat was born at Beaminster, Dorset, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he held a fellowship from 1657 to 1670. Having t ...

divine Divinity or the divine are things that are either related to, devoted to, or proceeding from a deity.divine

and co-founder of the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

* Benjamin Parsons Symons, Warden of Wadham * Richard W. Tsien, electric engineer and neurobiologist * Wilson Dallam Wallis, anthropologist *

Ethelbert Dudley Warfield Ethelbert Dudley Warfield, D.D., LL.D. (March 16, 1861 – July 6, 1936) was an American professor of history and college president who served as president of Miami University, Lafayette College and Wilson College. As Miami University's youngest ...

, historian and academic administrator *

Rex Warner Rex Warner (9 March 1905 – 24 June 1986) was an English classicist, writer, and translator. He is now probably best remembered for ''The Aerodrome'' (1941).Chris Hopkins, ''English Fiction in the 1930s: Language, Genre, History'' Continuum Inte ...

, classicist, writer and translator * William Whyte, historian *

Donald Wiseman Donald John Wiseman (25 October 1918 – 2 February 2010) was a biblical scholar, archaeologist and Assyriologist. He was Professor of Assyriology at the University of London from 1961 to 1982. Early life and beliefs Wiseman was born in Emswo ...

, biblical scholar and Assyriologist *

Sir Christopher Wren Sir Christopher Wren PRS FRS (; – ) was one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history, as well as an anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist. He was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches ...

, architect and co-founder of the Royal Society

Authors, artists, broadcasters and entertainers

Diran Adebayo Oludiran "Diran" Adebayo FRSL (born 30 August 1968) is a British novelist, cultural critic and academic, best known for his tales of London and the lives of African diasporans. His work has been characterised by its interest in multiple cultural ...

, novelist *

Monica Ali Monica Ali FRSL (born 20 October 1967) is a British writer of Bangladeshi and English heritage. In 2003, she was selected as one of the "Best of Young British Novelists" by ''Granta'' magazine based on her unpublished manuscript; her debut nove ...

, novelist *

Hossein Amini Hossein Amini ( fa, حسین امینی; born 18 January 1966) is an Iranian-born British screenwriter and film director. Amini has worked as a screenwriter since the early 1990s. He was nominated for numerous awards for the 1997 film '' The Win ...

, film director and screenplay writer *

Lindsay Anderson Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature-film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading-light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave. He is most widely remembered for ...

, film director *

Timothy Bateson Timothy Dingwall Bateson (3 April 1926 – 15 September 2009) was an English actor. Life and career Born in London, the son of solicitor Dingwall Latham Bateson and the great-nephew of rugby player Harold Dingwall Bateson, he was educated at ...

, actor *

Sir Thomas Beecham Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, Order of the Companions of Honour, CH (29 April 18798 March 1961) was an English conductor and impresario best known for his association with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic and the Roya ...

, conductor *

Melvyn Bragg Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, (born 6 October 1939), is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian. He is best known for his work with ITV as editor and presenter of ''The South Bank Show'' (1978–2010), and for the BBC Radio 4 document ...

, television broadcaster and writer *

Simon Brett Simon Anthony Lee Brett OBE FRSL (born 28 October 1945 in Worcester Park, Surrey, England) is a British author of detective fiction, a playwright, and a producer-writer for television and radio. As an author, he is best known for his mystery s ...

, writer * Jess Cartner-Morley, fashion editor of ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and '' The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the G ...

'' newspaper * Andy Cato, of

Groove Armada Groove Armada are an English electronic music duo, composed of Andy Cato and Tom Findlay. They achieved chart success with their singles " At the River", "I See You Baby" and "Superstylin'". The duo have released nine studio albums, four of wh ...

* Alan Connor, journalist and television presenter *

David Constantine David John Constantine (born 1944) is an English poet, author and translator. Background Born in Salford, Constantine read Modern Languages at Wadham College, Oxford, and was a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, until 2000, when he became a S ...

, poet and translator *

Alan Coren Alan Coren (27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007) was an English humourist, writer and satirist who was a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz ''The News Quiz'' and a team captain on BBC television's ''Call My Bluff''. Coren was also a journali ...

, comic writer * Robert Crampton, ''Times'' journalist *

Cecil Day-Lewis Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis; 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Irish-born British poet and Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Bla ...

, former Poet Laureate * Sophie Duker, stand-up comedian and writer * James Flint, writer * Isabel Fonseca, writer *

Neil Forrester Neil A. Forrester (born 3 January 1971, in Keynsham, England) is a British research assistant in the field of developmental disorders and language acquisition at the University of London and former reality television personality. He is best know ...

, artist and cast member of '' The Real World'' TV show (London series) * Tim Franks, journalist *

Jonathan Freedland Jonathan Saul Freedland (born 25 February 1967) is a British journalist who writes a weekly column for ''The Guardian''. He presents BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series ''The Long View''. Freedland also writes thrillers, mainly under the ...

, journalist *

Peter Gammond Peter Gammond (30 September 1925 – 6 May 2019) was a British music critic, writer, journalist, musician, poet, and artist. Peter Gammond was born in Winnington, Northwich, Cheshire. The son of John Thomas Gammond (1892–1970), a clerk, a ...

, music critic *

Amelia Gentleman Amelia Sophie Gentleman, (born 1972) is a British journalist. She is a reporter for ''The Guardian'', and won the Paul Foot Award for reporting the Windrush scandal. Early life and education Born in London in 1972, Gentleman is the daughter ...

, journalist *

Nordahl Grieg Johan Nordahl Brun Grieg (1 November 1902 – 2 December 1943) was a Norwegian poet, novelist, dramatist, journalist and political activist. He was a popular author and a controversial public figure. He served in World War II as a war corresponde ...

, Norwegian poet and playwright *

John Gross John Gross FRSL (12 March 1935 – 10 January 2011) was an eminent English man of letters. A leading intellectual, writer, anthologist, and critic, ''The Guardian'' (in a tribute titled "My Hero") and ''The Spectator'' were among several pub ...

, author and literary critic *

Tom Gross Tom Gross is a British-born journalist, international affairs commentator, and human rights campaigner specializing in the Middle East. Gross was formerly a foreign correspondent for the London ''Sunday Telegraph'' and ''New York Daily News''. He ...

, journalist and political commentator * Francis Wrigley Hirst, journalist *

Montague Haltrecht Montague Haltrecht (27 February 1932 – 27 March 2010) was an English writer, literary critic, model and radio and TV presenter. Over the course of his literary career he wrote four novels, ''Jonah and His Mother'' (1964), ''A Secondary Charac ...

, writer and literary critic * Tom Holt, author of humorous and military fantasies, and of historical fiction *

Felicity Jones Felicity Rose Hadley Jones (born 17 October 1983) is a British actress. She started her professional acting career as a child, appearing in '' The Treasure Seekers'' (1996) at age 12. She went on to play Ethel Hallow for one series of the tel ...

, actress *

Reginald Victor Jones Reginald Victor Jones , FRSE, LLD (29 September 1911 – 17 December 1997) was a British physicist and scientific military intelligence expert who played an important role in the defence of Britain in by solving scientific and technical pr ...

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

scientific Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence f ...

military intelligence Military intelligence is a military discipline that uses information collection and analysis approaches to provide guidance and direction to assist commanders in their decisions. This aim is achieved by providing an assessment of data from ...

expert and writer *

Michael Kenyon Michael F. Kenyon (26 June 1931 – 29 May 2005) was a British author of crime novels. Author of more than twenty humorous mystery novels, he was one of the first in the field of spoof-espionage story telling, but was perhaps better k ...

, novelist *

Hari Kunzru Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru (born 1969) is a British novelist and journalist. He is the author of the novels '' The Impressionist'', '' Transmission'', ''My Revolutions'', '' Gods Without Men'', ''White Tears''David Robinson"Interview: Hari Kunzru, ...

, novelist *

Tim McInnerny Tim McInnerny ( ; born 18 September 1956) is an English actor. He is known for his many roles on stage and television, including as Lord Percy Percy and Captain Darling in the 1980s British sitcom ''Blackadder''. Early life McInnerny was bor ...

, actor and comedian *

Patrick Marber Patrick Albert Crispin Marber (born 19 September 1964) is an English comedian, playwright, director, actor, and screenwriter. Early life Marber was born and raised in a middle-class Jewish family in Wimbledon, London, the son of Angela (Benja ...

, comedian and playwright * Sharon Mascall, journalist, broadcaster and writer *

Jodhi May Jodhi Tania May (''née'' Hakim-Edwards; 8 May 1975) is a British actress. She remains the youngest recipient of the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, for ''A World Apart'' (1988). Her other film appearances include '' The Last ...

, actress * Anne McElvoy, journalist and broadcaster * Robert McGill (writer), Robert McGill, writer and literary critic * Hilary Menos, poet * Roger Mosey, BBC executive, Director of London 2012 Olympic Games coverage * Neil Nightingale, director the BBC Natural History Unit from 2003 to 2009 * David Patrikarakos, author and journalist * Iain Pears, novelist * Laurie Penny, author and social activist * Rosamund Pike, actress * William Rayner, novelist * Tony Richardson, English theatre and Academy Award-winning film director and producer * Stevan Riley, film director * Jude Rogers, judge * Michael Rosen, poet and broadcaster * Joshua Rozenberg, legal commentator and journalist * Carr Scrope, versifier * Peter Sculthorpe, composer * Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, wit, dramatist and politician * Fatemeh Shams, Award-winning poet and professor of Persian literature at University of Pennsylvania * Mary Ann Sieghart, former assistant editor of ''The Times'' * Leonard Strong, novelist, critic, historian and poet * Paul Vaughan, journalist * William Walsh (poet), William Walsh, poet and critic * Irving Wardle, theatre critic * John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, libertine poet and protégé of Charles II of England, King Charles II * Humbert Wolfe, poet

Clergy

Samuel Augustus Barnett by George Frederic Watts

* Peter Allan (priest), Peter Allan, monk and Principal of College of the Resurrection * Francis Bampfield, non-conformist minister * Samuel Barnett (reformer), Samuel Barnett, social reformer and Canon of Westminster Abbey * Adrian Benjamin, clergyman and former actor * Edward Bidwell, Bishop of Ontario * Henry Bowlby, Bishop of Coventry (suffragan), Bishop of Coventry * Cornelius Burges, minister * Richard William Church, churchman and writer * John Erskine Clarke, clergyman * Thomas Crofts, clergyman * Cecil de Carteret, Bishop of Jamaica * Robert Deakin, clergyman * Joseph Diggle, clergyman, politician and public servant * Edward Eddrup, clergyman and principal of Salisbury Theological College * Edward Feild, clergyman * Giles Fraser, Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral * Campbell Hone, Bishop of Wakefield (diocese), Bishop of Wakefield * Walsham How, clergyman and botanist * William Henry Jackson (priest), William Henry Jackson, priest, missionary and inventor of Burmese Braille * Francis Jayne, clergyman * Hewlett Johnson, clergyman, "Red Dean of Canterbury" * Francis Kilvert, clergyman and diarist * Alexander Mackonochie, mission priest * Thomas Manton, clergyman * Edward Garrard Marsh, poet and clergyman * John Medley, first Bishop of Fredericton * Wilfrid Oldaker, schoolmaster and Precentor of Christ Church, Oxford * Reginald Owen (bishop), Reginald Owen, Primate of New Zealand * Samuel Parker (bishop of Oxford), Samuel Parker, clergyman * Charles Ranken, clergyman and chess master * William Jenkins Rees, clergyman and antiquary * William Skinner (bishop), William Skinner, Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, bishop of Aberdeen * Edward Stone (natural philosopher), Edward Stone, clergyman and natural philosopher * Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury * Richard Willis (bishop), Richard Willis, Bishop * Richard Woodward (bishop), Richard Woodward, Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, Bishop Cloyne * Foster Barham Zincke, clergyman, traveller, and antiquary

Politicians and civil servants

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* Tom Allen (Maine politician), Tom Allen, US Representative from Maine * William Shepherd Allen, UK and New Zealand politician * Michael Alison, politician * Anita Anand, Canadian politician and Minister of Public Services and Procurement * Edward Ashe (died 1748), Edward Ashe, English politician and Father of the House (United Kingdom), Father of the House * Michael Bates, Baron Bates, politician * Thomas Baring (1831–1891), Thomas Baring, politician * Richard Barnett (politician), Richard Barnett, politician * Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury, former Lord Chancellor * Marco Biagi (politician), Marco Biagi, Scottish National Party politician * Robert Blake (admiral), Robert Blake, Cromwell's admiral * David Blatherwick (diplomat), David Blatherwick, diplomat * John Bluett, politician * John Bramston the Younger, politician * Norman Brook, 1st Baron Normanbrook, civil servant, Cabinet Secretary 1947-1962 * William Burge, Attorney General of Jamaica and anti-abolitionist * Edward Cakobau, Deputy Prime Minister of Fiji * Hugh Childers, statesman * Charles Delacourt-Smith, Baron Delacourt-Smith, politician * H. R. P. Dickson, colonial political officer and author * Joseph Diggle, clergyman and politician * John Dyson, Lord Dyson, judge and Master of the Rolls * Derek Enright, politician * Vincent Evans, Judge on the European Court of Human Rights * Charles Fane, 1st Viscount Fane, politician * Steven Fisher (diplomat), Steven Fisher, diplomat * Bernard Floud, politician * Peter Floud, civil servant * Michael Foot, politician * William Fox (politician), William Fox, premier of New Zealand * Sydney Giffard, diplomat * Penaia Ganilau, former Governor General and President of Fiji * Eileen E. Gillese, judge * Neil Gerrard, politician * Tuanku Abdul Halim, Sultan of Kedah, The King of Malaysia (1970–1975 and 2011-2017) * Robert Hannigan, cryptographer and civil servant * John Hanson (British diplomat), John Hanson, diplomat * Joseph Hardcastle (politician), Joseph Hardcastle, politician * John Hardres, politician *

, Israeli diplomat * Evan Harris, former Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, MP for Oxford West and Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency), Oxford West and Abingdon * George Harrison (Hertford MP), George Harrison, politician * Charles Hodson, Baron Hodson, judge * Marc Holland, Administrator of Ascension Island * Sir Edmund Isham, 6th Baronet, politician * Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham, politician * Thomas Lewis (1690–1777), Thomas Lewis, politician * Richard Lloyd (Royalist), Richard Lloyd, royalist * Mark Logan (politician), Mark Logan, Member of Parliament, MP for Bolton North East (UK Parliament constituency), Bolton North East * John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace, Whig politician * Eric Macfadyen, politician * Kenneth Maddocks, former Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Fiji * Kamisese Mara, former Prime Minister and President of Fiji * Duncan Menzies, Lord Menzies, judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland * Peter Milliken, Speaker of the House of Commons (Canada), Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada * T. E. Moir, civil servant * James Morris (British politician), James Morris, Conservative MP for Halesowen and Rowley Regis (UK Parliament constituency), Halesowen and Rowley Regis * Robert Moses, city planner * James Munby, judge * James Murray (London politician), James Murray, politician * Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan, judge, first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life (1994–1997), Chancellor of the University of Essex (1997–2002) * Feroz Khan Noon, Prime Minister of Pakistan * Arthur Onslow, former Speaker of the House of Commons * William Palmes, politician * Gopalaswami Parthasarathy (diplomat), Gopalaswami Parthasarathy, Indian diplomat and journalist * Edward Phelips (Royalist), Edward Phelips, politician * Carew Raleigh (1605–1666), Carew Raleigh, politician * Emma Reynolds, MP for Wolverhampton North East (UK Parliament constituency), Wolverhampton North East * Colin Thornton-Kemsley, National Liberal politician * Sir Thomas Rich, 1st Baronet, politician * Denys Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong * Alexander Roche, Baron Roche, law lord * Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Wytley, politician * Philip Rycroft, civil servant * Wasim Sajjad, two time interim President of Pakistan and former Chairman Senate * John C. Sherburne, Vermont politician * John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, former Lord Chancellor * F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, former Lord Chancellor * Simon Smith (diplomat), Simon Smith, diplomat * Thomas Strangways (1643–1713), Thomas Strangways, Father of the House (United Kingdom), Father of the House * Lala Sukuna, Fijian chief * Randolph Vigne, South African anti-apartheid activist * K. N. Wanchoo, Chief Justice of India * Eugene Wason, Scottish politician * Geoffrey Whiskard, diplomat * Daryl Williams (politician), Daryl Williams, Attorney-General for Australia * Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, politician, topographer and author * Hugh Wyndham, judge * Thomas Wyndham (of Witham Friary), politician * Thomas Wyndham, 1st Baron Wyndham, Irish lawyer and politician, former Lord Chancellor of Ireland * Wadham Wyndham (judge), Sir Wadham Wyndham, judge * Peter William Youens, Sir Peter William Youens, former Deputy Chief Secretary of Nyasaland (today Malawi) and secretary to the Prime Minister and the Cabinet of Malawi

Other

* Noel Agazarian, World War II fighter ace * Simon Anholt, political scientist, policy advisor * E. W. Bastard, cricketer * Arthur Berry (footballer), Arthur Berry, footballer * Alan Blackshaw, mountaineer, skier and civil servant * William Bromet, rugby player * Brian Burnett, Royal Air Force and Commander-in-Chief of British Far East Command * Michael Checkland, Sir Michael Checkland, former Director General of the BBC * John Cooke (regicide), John Cooke, prosecutor of Charles I * Warren East, businessman, Chief executive of ARM Holdings plc * William Freke, mystic * C. B. Fry, sportsman * George Hogg (adventurer), George Hogg, adventurer * George Hastings, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, nobleman * Richard Koch, management consultant * David Levin (businessman), David Levin, entrepreneur * Emily Ludolf, amateur chef, finalist on BBC 2's ''Masterchef'', 2008 * John MacBain, businessman * Paul McMahon, cricketer * Algernon Methuen, publisher * Herbert Page, cricketeer * Nathaniel Philip Rothschild, British financier and only son of Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild * Edward Saatchi, entrepreneur * Chris Saunders (headmaster), Chris Saunders, cricketer and headmaster * Steven Skala, banker * Richard Stone (anti-racism activist), Dr Richard Stone OBE, social campaigner, philanthropist, anti-racism and interfaith activist

Fellows and honorary Fellows

* A. J. Ayer, Alfred Ayer, logical positivist * Michael R. Ayers, philosopher * John Bamborough, scholar of English literature and founding Principal of Linacre College, Oxford * John Bell (legal scholar), John Bell, Professor of Law and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge * T.J. Binyon, Russian literature scholar and crime writer * Ian Brownlie, barrister and academic in international law * Philip Bullock, Professor of Russian Literature and Music * Peter Carter (academic), Peter Carter, legal scholar * Allan Chapman, historian of science *

, philosopher * Charles Coulson, applied mathematician, theoretical chemist and religious author * Peter Derow, historian of ancient Greece and Rome * Frederick Augustus Dixey, former President of the Royal Entomological Society of London * Terry Eagleton, Marxist literary theorist * Eprime Eshag, John Maynard Keynes, Keynesian economist *

, legal scholar * Andrew Hodges, mathematician, author and Dean of Wadham College * Humphrey Hody, clergyman and theologian * Thomas Graham Jackson, architect * Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, Churchill's scientific adviser during the Second World War * Nicholas Lloyd (lexicographer), Nicholas Lloyd, cleric and lexicographer * David Mabberley, botanist, educator and writer * Edward Arthur Milne, astrophysicist and mathematician * Ted Nelson, American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology * Bernard O'Donoghue, Irish poet * Roger Penrose, mathematical physicist and philosopher * Benjamin Bickley Rogers, classical scholar * Richard Sharpe (historian), Richard Sharpe, historian of medieval England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales *

, mathematician, writer, television presenter * Edward Stone (clergyman), Edward Stone, Rector who discovered the active ingredient of Aspirin * John Swinton (1703–1777), John Swinton, writer, academic, Church of England clergyman and orientalist * Joseph Trapp, clergyman, academic, poet and pamphleteer * Theodore Wade-Gery, classical scholar, historian and epigrapher * Joseph White (orientalist), Joseph White, orientalist and theologian * John Williams (barrister), John Williams, Welsh lawyer and writer * Robert Williams (English chemist), R. J. P. (Bob) Williams, inorganic chemist * Robert J.C. Young, post-colonial theorist, cultural critic, and historian

Honorary Fellows

* Abdul Halim of Kedah, Sultan of Kedah * Franklin Berman, Sir Franklin Berman, barrister, judge and arbitrator * Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, television broadcaster * Brian Burnett, Sir Brian Burnett, Air Chief Marshal * Neil Chalmers, Sir Neil Chalmers, zoologist and former Warden of Wadham * Michael Checkland, Sir Michael Checkland, former Director General of the BBC * Peter Day, inorganic chemist * John Dyson, Lord Dyson, Master of the Rolls * Roderick Floud, Sir Roderick Floud, economic historian * Sandra Fredman, academic lawyer * Sydney Giffard, Sir Sydney Giffard, diplomat and author * Allan Gotlieb, Canadian public servant and author * Robert Hannigan, former director of GCHQ * Allen Hill (scientist), Allen Hill, bioinorganic chemist * Jeremy R. Knowles, former professor of chemistry at Harvard University * Lee Shau-kee, businessman * David Malcolm, lawyer * Sally Mapstone, principal of the University of St Andrews * P. J. Marshall, historian of the British Empire *

, geologist and politician * Peter Milliken, lawyer and politician * Claus Moser, Baron Moser, statistician and public servant * James Munby, Sir James Munby, judge * Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan, judge, first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life (1994–1997), Chancellor of the University of Essex (1997–2002) * Ashraf Pahlavi, Princess of Iran * Denys Roberts, Sir Denys Roberts, former British colonial official and judge * Christopher Rose (judge), Sir Christopher Rose, former judge * Wasim Sajjad, Pakistani lawyer and legal educator * David Smith (botanist), Sir David Smith, botanist * Kathleen Sullivan (lawyer), Kathleen Sullivan, lawyer * Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury * Robert J. C. Young, philosopher and historian

Wardens

The Warden is the college's principal, responsible for its academic leadership, chairing its governing body, and representing it in the outside world. Below is a list of the Wardens of Wadham college in chronological order. Their time in office is given in parentheses. * Robert Wright (bishop), Robert Wright (20 April-20 July 1613), Bishop of Bristol and Bishop of Lichfield * John Fleming (warden), John Fleming (1613–1617) * William Smyth (academic administrator), William Smyth (1617–1635) * Daniel Estcot (1635–1644) * John Pitt (warden), John Pitt (1644–1648) * John Wilkins (1648–1659), Bishop, scholar and co-founder of the

* Walter Blandford (1659–1665), Bishop of Oxford, 1665, Bishop of Worcester, 1671 *

(1665–1689), Bishop of Bristol, 1689,

, 1691 * Thomas Dunster (1689–1719) * William Baker (bishop of Norwich), William Baker (1719–1724), Bishop of Bangor, 1724, Bishop of Norwich, 1727 * Robert Thistlethwayte (1724–1739), clergyman, fled to France in 1737 after a homosexual scandal * Samuel Lisle (1739–1744), Bishop of St. Asaph, 1744, Bishop of Norwich, 1748 * George Wyndham (warden), George Wyndham (1744–1777) * James Gerard (warden), James Gerard (1777–1783) * John Wills (academic administrator), John Wills (1783–1806), administrator, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1792–1796) * William Tournay (1806–1831) * Benjamin Parsons Symons (1831–1871), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1844–1848) * John Griffiths (academic), John Griffiths (1871–1881), Keeper of the Archives (1857–1885) * George E. Thorley (1881–1903) * Patrick A. Wright-Henderson (1903–1913) * Joseph Wells (academic), Joseph Wells (1913–1927), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1923–1926) * John F. Stenning (1927–1938) * Maurice Bowra (1938–1970), classical scholar and academic, known for his wit * Stuart Hampshire (1970–1984), philosopher and literary critic * Claus Moser, Baron Moser (1984–1993), statistician and civil servant * John Flemming (1993–2004), economist, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Fellow of the British Academy * Neil Chalmers (2004–2012), former Director of the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum * Ken Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of River Glaven (2012–2021), former Director of Public Prosecutions (England and Wales), Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales (2003–2008) * Robert Hannigan (2021–present)

Deans

Responsible for various aspects of the day-to-day student life of the College, the Dean has authority in matters of discipline concerning the behaviour of individuals or groups. Below is a list of the Deans of Wadham college in chronological order, together with their time in office. * John Pitt 1613, 1616–17 * John Goodridge 1613, 1618 * Matthew Osborne 1614, 1619 * Daniel Estcot 1615, Warden 1635–1644 * Ralph Flexney 1620 * Alexander Huish 1621 * Ignatius Jordan 1622 * Amias Hext 1622–23 * William Boswell 1624, 1626 * Francis Strode 1625 * Gilbert Drake 1627–28 * William Turner 1629–31 * John Warren 1632–33 * Tristram Sugge 1635, 1636 * Leonard Simons 1637, 1644–1645, 1647 * Robert Chapline 1638–39 * Richard Goodridge 1641 * George Ashwell 1642–43 * Richard Knightbridge 1646, resigned 1647 and replaced by Leonard Simons * Anthony Nourse 1647 * Samuel Lee 1653 * John Ball 1659, died 1660 and replaced by William Turges * Walter Pope 1660 * Daniel Estcott 1661 * Thomas Jeamson 1662, 1667 * John Chase 1663, 1671 * Brian Cave 1665, 1668 * Nathaniel Salter 1669 * William Thornton 1670 * George Fletcher 1672, 1676, died 1676 and replaced by William Shortgrave * John Ludwell 1673–1674 * Thomas Lessey 1675 * Robert Pitt (physician), Robert Pitt 1677 * Robert Balch 1678 * William Latton 1679 * William Gould 1681 * George Harding 1683, replaced by Thomas Lyndesay * Thomas Pigott 1684 * Alexander Crooke 1685 * Thomas Lidgould 1686 * Thomas Dunster 1687 * Humphrey Hody 1688 * Robert Doyley 1689 * William Hunt 1719 * John Leaves 1720, 1725, 1727 * Robert Nash 1721 * George Bowditch 1722, 1726 * Philip Speke 1723–24 * Edwyn Sandys 1728 * Stopford Jacks c.1925 * John Frederick Stenning, Warden 1927–1938 * Maurice Bowra c.1922–1938, Warden 1938–70 * A.J. Ayer 1945, philosopher * John Bamborough 1947–54, founding Principal of Linacre College, Oxford * T.J. Binyon ?–1976 & 1980s, literary scholar and writer * David Mabberley 1976–82 and 1991–96, botanist and writer * James Morwood 2000–2006, Grocyn Lecturer in Classics * Andrew Hodges 2011–2014, mathematician and writer * Martin Bureau, 2014–2016, Lindemann Fellow and Tutor in Physics, astrophysicist * Claudia Pazos Alonso, 2016–2019, Fellow and Tutor in Portuguese * Andrew D Farmery 2019–2022, Sir Samuel Scott of Yews Fellow and Tutor in Medicine; Professor of Anaesthetics * Sarah J. Cullinan Herring 2022-present, Hody Fellow and Tutor in Classics.

References

* * {{cite web , url=http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/fellows-staff/visiting-honorary-foundation-and-emeritus-fellows.html , title=Visiting, Honorary, Foundation and Emeritus Fellows , publisher=Wadham College, Oxford , accessdate=12 April 2013 , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130407022939/http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/fellows-staff/visiting-honorary-foundation-and-emeritus-fellows.html , archivedate=7 April 2013 Lists of people associated with the University of Oxford, Wadham People associated with Wadham College, Oxford