A list of alumni of Hertford College, Oxford, including alumni of its two predecessor institutions, Hart Hall and Magdalen Hall.

Hart Hall (1282–1740)

* Joseph Bowles, Bodley's Librarian * Thomas Bray, clergyman and abolitionist * Saint Alexander Briant, Jesuit martyr * Henry Bromley (died 1615), Henry Bromley, politician * Morgan Coleman, MP for Newport, Cornwall * John Donne, poet, Anglican priest * Payne Fisher, poet * Nicholas Fuller, Hebraist, philologist * John Glynne (judge), John Glynne, jurist * Peter Heylyn, polemicist * John Hutchins (antiquary), John Hutchins, antiquary * Thomas Manton, Puritan clergyman and chaplain to Oliver Cromwell * John Norden, cartographer * Henry Pelham, British Whig Prime Minister * John Selden, jurist, MP for Oxford University * George Augustus Selwyn (politician), George Augustus Selwyn, politician * Thomas Shirley, politician, soldier, adventurer, and privateer * Jonathan Swift, satirist, poet, Anglican priest, author of ''Gulliver's Travels'' * Henry Swinburne (lawyer), Henry Swinburne, ecclesiastical lawyer

Hertford College, first foundation 1740–1816

* Charles James Fox, Whig (British political party), Whig statesman * Sir John Hippisley, 1st Baronet, John Hippisley, politician, diplomat

Magdalen Hall, old site 1480–1822

* Robert Ashley (writer), Robert Ashley, writer * Daniel Burgess (minister), Daniel Burgess, Presbyterian minister * Matthew Bryan, Jacobite preacher * Walter Charleton, Epicurean philosopher * Samuel Daniel, poet, historian * Matthew Hale (jurist), Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice * Thomas Hobbes, political philosopher, author of ''Leviathan (Hobbes book), Leviathan'' * John Huckell, poet * Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, historian, statesman * John Gilbert (archbishop of York), John Gilbert, Archbishop of York * Narcissus Marsh, Primate of All Ireland * Richard Morton (physician), Richard Morton, physician * Philip Nye, clergyman and member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines * Robert Plot, naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and first Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum * John Rickman (parliamentary official), John Rickman, statistician * Obadiah Sedgwick, clergyman and member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines * George Shaw (biologist), George Shaw, biologist * Fleetwood Sheppard, courtier * William Tyndale, Bible translator, Reformation martyr * Henry Vane the Younger, Parliamentarian statesman * Sir Ralph Verney, 1st Baronet, of Middle Claydon, politician * William Waller, Parliamentarian soldier * John Wilkins, naturalist, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, and founder of the Royal Society * Benjamin Woodbridge, clergyman and controversialist

Magdalen Hall, new site 1822–1874

* Montagu Burrows, first Chichele Professor of Modern History * William Robinson Clark, theologian * William Cowper (Dean of Sydney), William Cowper, first Dean of Sydney * John Thadeus Delane, journalist * Clement Jackson, founder of the Amateur Athletic Association * Arthur Mayo (VC), Arthur Mayo Victoria Cross, VC, soldier * Francis McDougall, first Anglican bishop of Labuan and the Kingdom of Sarawak * Brownlow North (evangelist), Brownlow North, evangelist * Thorold Rogers, political economist * William Williams (bishop), William Williams, first Anglican Diocese of Waiapu, Bishop of Waiapu, New Zealand * Leonard Williams (bishop), Leonard Williams, third Diocese of Waiapu, Bishop of Waiapu (son of William Williams) * Nathaniel Woodard, Priest in the Church of England, founder of the Woodard Corporation

Hertford College, second foundation 1874–

* Richard Addinsell, composer of film music * Helen Alexander (businesswoman), Helen Alexander, businesswoman * C. A. J. Armstrong, historian * Sharon Ashbrook, chemist * Bernard Ashmole, archaeologist, art historian * Andrea Ashworth, author, academic * Cristopher Ballinas Valdés, Christopher Ballinas Valdés, Mexican public policy expert and civil servant * Edmund Bartley-Denniss, politician and cyclist * Charles Bean, war correspondent and historian * John Behan (educationist), John Behan, educationist, jurist * Marian Bell (economist), Marian Bell, economist * Catherine Bennett (journalist), Catherine Bennett, journalist * David Blomfield, leader of the Liberal Party group on Richmond upon Thames Council, writer, book editor and local historian * Martin Bridson, mathematician * Jasmine Brown, author * Isaac Hawkins Browne (coal owner), Isaac Hawkins Browne, industrialist * Fiona Bruce, BBC newsreader * Rupert Bruce-Mitford, archaeologist and scholar * Anthony Bushell, actor * Carole Cadwalladr, journalist * Walter Carey, clergyman * Victor Cha, national security specialist * Jean Chapdelaine, diplomat * Calvin Cheng, Singapore modelling agency head, former Nominated Member of Parliament * William Robinson Clark, theologian * Nick Cohen, political journalist * Geoffrey Corbett, civil servant and mountaineer * W. Maxwell Cowan, neuroscientist * Sherard Cowper-Coles, diplomat * George Dangerfield, journalist, historian * Daniel Dennett, philosopher of the mind * David Dilks, historian * Jack Herbert Driberg, anthropologist * Bill Duff (Arabist), Bill Duff, Arabist * Jack Duppa-Miller, sailor * Alfred Earle (bishop), Alfred Earle, bishop * J. Meade Falkner, novelist, ''The Lost Stradivarius'' * Richard W. Fisher, diplomat * Warren Fisher (civil servant), Warren Fisher, civil servant * Adam Fleming (journalist), Adam Fleming, BBC newsreader * Thomas Fletcher (diplomat), Thomas Fletcher, diplomat * Nicholas Foulkes, historian, journalist * Henry Sanderson Furniss, 1st Baron Sanderson, socialist educationalist *Helen Ghosh, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, former Director-General of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, National Trust. * Pinny Grylls, film director * Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Channel 4 newsreader * Gideon Henderson, geochemist, climate-change scientist * Nicholas Henderson, diplomat * Jeremy Heywood, civil servant * Leonard Hodgson, church historian * Jeffrey John, Dean of St Alban's Cathedral *James John Joicey, amateur entomologist * Mark S. Joshi, financial mathematician * Natasha Kaplinsky, ITN newsreader * Soweto Kinch, jazz saxophonist, rapper * Mark A. Lemmon FRS, Chair of Pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine * Seth Lerer, literary critic * Alain LeRoy Locke, writer of the Harlem Renaissance * Jurek Martin, journalist * Ronald Martland, former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada * Khalid Jawed Khan, Attorney General of Pakistan * Gavin Maxwell, naturalist, author of ''Ring of Bright Water'' * Arthur Mayo (naval officer), Arthur Mayo, recipient of the Victoria Cross * Roland Michener, former Governor General of Canada * Dom Mintoff, former Prime Minister of Malta * David Naylor, medical researcher * Edward Max Nicholson, founder of the World Wide Fund for Nature, World Wildlife Fund * Richard Norton-Taylor, journalist, playwright * Elizabeth Norton, historian and author * Richard Parsons (author), Richard Parsons, founder of CGP (books), CGP Guides * Peter Pears, tenor * Barbara A. Perry, constitutional lawyer * James Pettifer, scholar of the Balkans * Bridget Phillipson, MP for Houghton and Sunderland South * Tracey Poirier, Rhodes Scholar, first female Vermont Army National Guard general officer * Nigel Saul, historian * Gordon Saunders, Joseph Gordon Saunders, composer * Jacqui Smith, former British Home Secretary * David Spedding, former Head of MI6 * Manisha Tank, CNN newsreader * Thum Ping Tjin, the first Singaporean to swim the English Channel * Ed Vulliamy, journalist and world reporter * Evelyn Waugh, author of ''Brideshead Revisited'', journalist * Byron White, U.S. Associate Supreme Court Justice * Athol Williams, South African poet and social philosopher * Tobias Wolff, author of ''This Boy's Life'' * Nathaniel Woodard, educationalist * Alison Young (legal scholar), Alison Young, legal scholar, Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge * Maisie Richardson-Sellers, actor * Roger Westbrook, diplomat

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